The company will focus on bringing other kinds of games to the platform

Aug 19, 2014 09:03 GMT  ·  By

Ubisoft does not plan to release any more Mature-rated video games on the Nintendo Wii U platform after Watch Dogs, the company's Chief Executive Officer Yves Guillemot reveals.

The decision to remove itself from the adult market on Nintendo's latest hardware comes following the performance of the latest M-rated video games from Ubisoft, which apparently didn't sell as well as the developer and publisher had hoped.

While Guillemot confirms that the dystopian action-adventure video game Watch Dogs is still on its way to the Wii U console sometime later this year, he says that it will be the last of its kind to do so.

"What we see is that Nintendo customers don't buy Assassin's Creed. Last year, we sold in very small numbers," Yves Guillemot tells Game Informer.

"What we see is that they are very interested in Just Dance, very interested by other kinds of games. So what we are trying to do is to focus more on the types of games they are interested in," he continues.

Ubisoft's latest earnings report shows that only 3 percent of Ubisoft's total fiscal year 2014 revenue came from the Wii U platform, with the remaining derived from sales on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and mobile platforms.

The Wii U has recorded much more success with colorful and casual titles, unsurprisingly, while big-budget games geared toward a more serious audience usually end up being purchased on other formats.

Guillemot also mentions that the company plans to cut support for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms and focus on the latest generation of consoles, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, starting in 2015.

Ubisoft has released a couple of M-rated games on Nintendo's Wii U in the past, during the year and a half since the device's release, including Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, and ZombiU, a platform-exclusive title.

Ubisoft also mentioned earlier this year that it had a full, finished Wii U game that it was sitting on at the moment, waiting for the device to gain more traction and expand its user base before a release would be considered.

The Wii U has seen a surge in interest after Nintendo's digital event at E3 this year in June, and following the release of Mario Kart 8, it managed to get back on the map, with sales starting to pick up pace.

With Bayonetta 2, Super Smash Bros., and Hyrule Warriors coming to the Wii U in the near future, and Splatoon expected to land sometime during 2015, Nintendo's console seems to be in pretty good shape.

The console has so far sold close to 7 million units worldwide, since its release in November 2012.