The Wii seems to be the place to go for shovelware these days. I expect if someone were to compile the ratio of good vs awful titles on that platform that it would have the most skewed results of any console for a long time.

they need to do it to calm investors.

I follow Ubi in the same way you follow Koei. Honestly, they've been doing this for ages now. Losing the plot that is. Every other thing they say and or do is a facepalm.

The problem as far as I see it is that they don't understand that the industry is a two way system. You can't just milk the industry dry, you have to feed it as well, and that means producing quality titles every now and then. Occasionally they feed it some high quality but chemical-abundant food, see Assassins Creed (not that AC is a bad game, it's nutritious and delicious but flawed up the prosthetic orifice) but it's like they resent it, and will continue to grudgingly feed us the bear minimum for the industry to stay alive.

Ubi are a business through and through. I don't know what divine intervention caused them to allow pre-production on BG&E2 - my guess is that they were able to birth a new franchise ripe for milking; Raving Rabbids, but I'm not surprised that this is their idea.

Tl;dr, but TNG facepalm pics never cease to make me LOL.

Yeah, that seems a bit on the silly side. Its like taking a part of your company and devoting it to one system to make a specific type of game that it already has a fuck ton of. Somewhere there is a market analyst with charts and graphs that proves things with convincing percentages that should be slapped like a silly bitch.

Play Zone sounds like a good place to hunt for loli.

Sorry for double post but my comment above was for "gotdurnrite" and not for Professor Pew.

Well I hope they make the Playzone logo big enough to cover the whole front of the package. That would certainly make it easier to avoid such crap. Luckily it seems I will be safe of those titles on my 360.
With Jim becoming nostalgic I will do so too: Ever since videogames were invented our parents told us that those "things" would dum us down. Now Ubisoft is providing them with software that actually proves their point.
A big thanks to Ubisoft from millions of gamers that have been trying to get their hobby recognized as a serious medium ever since 1983.

boylie is correct. Buildings burn, children die, etc.

Ubisoft? More like Ubersoft. Har Har Har.

Anyway. Who knows, maybe this will actual be beneficial to us.

"innovative and involving mini-games"

phrase is losing all its meaning

just what we need, more Wii shovelware.

Does this mean a ton of videos of Jade Raymond talking about how amazing Play Zone will be?

triple letter score on the word "chicanery"

Why is this bad? Ubisoft is doing a great job earning loads of money. They can do whatever the hell they want for cash. Like Nintendo, they have a market that works. Just because you are not a part of that market doesn't mean it can't exist.

Look at it this way: "God, Epic just keeps making games in shades of brown and gray. You can only shoot, you only play as stupid meatheads. There are so many of these games on the 360, PS3, and PC. The market for these games are only younger dudes! As somebody who doesn't like these games, I'm going to bitch about this and facepalm until my whining and bitching gets me what I want; a colorful and magical unicorn adventure. Everybody knows that everybody and their mom wants a colorful and magical unicorn adventure; I mean, my favorite website, Sparkletoid.com is full of editors and community members who all want unicorn adventures. I mean, we all complain to each other, so shouldn't that change Epic? Shouldn't that ONE company, who has a massive market outside of Sparkletoid.com, bend over backwards, spend millions of dollars, and sell what could be a niche product to a small group that won't make its dividends? I mean, fuck corporate monetary goals and the jobs of hundreds of people.

It's all about ME and what I want."

Seriously, I love Destructoid, but come on. Stop bitching and deal, all of you. Play your 360 like I do, and move the fuck on.

Well, at least we know what label to avoid at the game stores. :D

Anyone who is still wondering who buys this crap that all these companies are putting out for the Wii in the 'casual' 'minigame' 'family' genre, just talk to anyone who don't play games themselves but have kids.

"Do you sell the Nintendo here? The one with the remote."
"Super plumber guy... that one"
"This game has the same name as <insert shitty kids move title here>... he'll love it"

It's amazing how Ubisoft has destroyed absolutely all good will from Wii owners. From Red Steel and bringing over No More Heroes... to this. Truly amazing.

And to those saying "they wouldn't make these games if they weren't profiting on them": They aren't making money--that's the thing. Ubisoft has had numerous press releases where they say their Wii and "casual" products are losing money and performing abysmally, all the while being baffled as to how it's happening.

At least they'll be keeping all the crap in one place, now.