ANOTHER UBI WII EXCLUSIVE: BABIES PARTY

[Crushed]

The famous babysitting academy will provide immediate fun to all family members, thanks to short gameplay sessions.

BABIES PARTY proposes a variety of 30 mini-games that can be played head-to-head or cooperatively among your family or with your friends. Live a great adventure if you play alone or have fun with your friends, up to 4 players.

Wii Remote™ gestures are intuitive, making the game easy to pick up and play.
You will just have to play indoor & outdoor mini-games following the typical day of a baby and his/her baby-sitter, and prove that you are the best babysitter, alone or with your friends.


Key Features

• More than 30 babies mini-games:
Enjoy exciting and diverse games inspired by babies daily life:
 Take care of them…
 Help them progress with memory games, puzzles, coloring and cutting up activities…
 Entertain them through hilarious mini-games

• Solo or multiplayer modes for every desire:
Choose which character you want to embody:
 As a baby sitter, you’ll have to take care alone of these adorable little monsters!
 As a baby, you can play up to 4 players with your friends, and do what was always forbidden.

• Wiimote based easy gameplay allows immediate fun:
Thanks to intuitive motions and use of the Wii Balance Board, the game is easy to pick-up and play. You will be able to enjoy instantaneously any game.

• A great story to live:
Choose the families you want to baby sit for and go to your neighbours’ houses investigate.
As a member of a babysitting academy, you will have to do your best to be graduate and to become the best Babysitter.

• Many unlockables:
Unlock a huge range of more than 50 cute and funny outfits and customize all the babies you take care of. YAY!

Consumer benefits

 More than 30 diverse mini-games to enjoy immediate fun.

 Share familial moments by going through the thrill and joy a babysitter can have.

 Challenge your friends to be a most ‘irritating’ baby than you.

 Do everything you have always dreamt to in your childhood.

 Make your baby the most beautiful & skilful one of the whole Academy!

Ubisoft

[Joe Molotov]

It's Evilbore: The Game!

[demi]

lap it up fatty wiitards, fund the games that matter

[Great Rumbler]

  Ubisoft 

[Eel O'Brian]

but but they're targeting hardcore gamers this year

[Crushed]

In buying Wii Fit and Wii Play Nintendo fans have shown publishers a remarkable proclivity towards banality and budget gaming crap, hence the fact that the announced titles are all leaning in that direction.  I can't believe how stupid you would have to be to suppose that buying mini game collections, mascot fanservice and ports en masse was going to end up delivering AAA titles to your console.  Get into real gaming fatties.

But they didn't buy those games en masse. Ubisoft has even said that all their shovelware bombs on Wii, they just don't give a shit.

[Crushed]

I'm talking about the shitty games Nintendo is tricking it's (admittedly stupid) core audience into thinking coincides with their taste.  Did you think that would produce anything besides the same shit from other publishers?

Absolutely nothing in that post made any coherent sense.

[Joe Molotov]

  You can taste the bitter tears and emo rage just radiating from Cohen's posts. You guys are fun. Don't worry man, real games aren't going anywhere. Well, at least not until Beyond Good and Evil 2 sells less than 50k copies, and Ubisoft files for bankruptcy.

[demi]

Don't worry man, real games aren't going anywhere.

As long as you keep buying

God bless the fatties of America

[Joe Molotov]

This stuff has been coming out on the DS for years, it's not a big deal.

[disgruntled_jojo]

Ellen will give away 10k copies of this on her show.  You know what, fuck it.  Ellen and her housewife hordes can have the fucking Wii.

[Crushed]

Absolutely nothing in that post made any coherent sense.

I'm talking about the shitty games Nintendo tricked it is core audience (that admits openly that it is stupid) into thinking that they liked, like ports, party games, and mascot fanservice, all things which fans did not like before, which I suppose means it isn't fanservice at all, but it was. Did you think that [subject missing] would produce anything besides totally different shovelware crap from other publishers?

[Van Cruncheon]

ah, the rich reward of cognitive dissonance

[WrikaWrek]

Every time i hear a Wii gamer tell me about how the Wii is the shit, and how it's a machine for hardcore gamers, someone announces shit like this.

I have a wii. Boom Blox is cool. But jesus christ.

[Van Cruncheon]

i guarantee you dogz will slaughter the sales of no more heroes across the lifetime of the console

[Van Cruncheon]

and unsurprisngly, bg&e2 would probably sell a quarter of what it would on the 360 were it on the wii-- even if its 60k versus 15k -- but thankfully ubisoft knows where the gamers are at

[Crushed]

But Prole, Carnival Games did 1.5 million, why doesn't the Wii get RE5?

RE4 GC sold 1.7 million.
RE4Wii sold 1.25 million.
RE:UC sold 1.1 million.


There's clearly a fanbase.

[demi]

But Prole, Carnival Games did 1.5 million, why doesn't the Wii get RE5?

RE4 GC sold 1.7 million.
RE4Wii sold 1.25 million.
RE:UC sold 1.1 million.


There's clearly a fanbase.

And they deserve nothing but the best - like a port of Resident Evil Zero to compliment their port of Resident Evil 4

[Crushed]

A fanbase willing to buy ports and recycled assets, which is what the publishers are looking at.

So they release shovelware games that aren't ports or don't have recycled assets, that bomb horribly but cost so little to develop that they still make some money anyway.

...

[Jabberwocky]

Who needs PoP or BG&E?

The really party's on the Wii!

[Van Cruncheon]

they don't bomb horribly, though. they just don't have front-loaded sales. bombs are shit like dewy's adventure, not babiez -- this game here will outsell your favorite third-party wii game across the lifetime of the system, if not the next christmas season.

[Van Cruncheon]

what i love is when gaf ninthings reject their own demographic.

"pfft, at least nintendo is trying to appeal to someone other than the stupid 16-34 male demographic!"

"really, and what demographic are you"

"uh, i'm special"

"yeah?"

"yeah, i don't like halo"

[Van Cruncheon]

they don't bomb horribly, though. they just don't have front-loaded sales. bombs are shit like dewy's adventure, not babiez -- this game here will outsell your favorite third-party wii game across the lifetime of the system, if not the next christmas season.

People are so obsessed with front loaded npd sales that they forget that different types of games sell, well, differently.

they'd understand this if they had kids. i'm not the only household on my street with catz 2! (on the other hand, i'm also the only one with mana-khemia :'()

[Fragamemnon]

Yeah, and it's not just little money-each one of those games could be the next big casual hit (like Carnival Games), a cash cow release that you can start increasing profit outlooks for years on.

I had someone on another forum tell me how the Wii would have been the perfect audience for Civilization Revolutions-a game that will be niche even on the hardcore gaming platforms. Ridiculous.

[Crushed]

they don't bomb horribly, though. they just don't have front-loaded sales. bombs are shit like dewy's adventure, not babiez -- this game here will outsell your favorite third-party wii game across the lifetime of the system, if not the next christmas season.

No seriously, we're talking sales in the hundreds and low thousands. That's not an exaggeration. And they'll be gone by the time the next version comes out next year. They're not advertised at all, they sit on the bottom shelves, and they never make more copies or shipments. It's shovelware.

If it's a port or recycles assets, that's one thing. Games have always had versions and ports released on different systems, and it's usually been to the benefit of gaming by giving developers experience and providing new twists on titles.


But this shit isn't even passable. It's like edutainment PC games you'd see in a drug store. At least those games are from some shithole company in Wisconsin or Slovenia that you've never heard of before, and the requirements are for Windows 95. But this is fucking Ubisoft.

[Van Cruncheon]

frag, was that dave "delusional" long

[MrSingh]

Get into real gaming fatties.

Greater truth has never been spoken.

All of my Wii owning friends are fat.

[Van Cruncheon]

dogz and babiez fuckin' sell well -- they just don't chart massively on npd. however, they pull a couple hundred to a thousand EVERY MONTH ad infinitum. catz and catz 2 ds have sold hundreds of thousands despite never cresting npd.

[demi]

Get into real gaming fatties.

All of my Wii owning friends are fat.

pics please

[Van Cruncheon]

catz and catz 2 aren't that badly designed, anyhow. they're actually a little "deeper" than nintendo dogs, despite the weaker production values.

[Van Cruncheon]

Get into real gaming fatties.

Greater truth has never been spoken.

All of my Wii owning friends are fat.

drohne once accused me of "cannibalizing" the fans of this hobby by trying to draw a specific hierarchy within it (and he's right -- nerds ranking other nerds is pretty sad), but i'll say it again regardless: there is nothing lower in this hobby than a nintendo fanboy, and they're made all the lower by hitching their pride to ellen's bandwagon.

[Crushed]

Also Crushed:  Engine building is a big reason for shovelware early in a console cycle.  But Dogz and Babiez will sell, that I guarantee you.

I understand that. But then Ubi doesn't even use those early games. At least they were nice enough at first to release mediocre, but conventional, games, like Red Steel. That actually sold over a million copies; true, launch hype had to do with it, but it was also due to a lot of advertising and exposure.

But then they started ported every last-gen game, like Far Cry and Blazing Angels and PoP: Two Thrones, they could get their hands on. Okay, but at least they'll eventually start releasing original Wii games in the same conventional vein once they run out, right? Those games probably sold okay-ish, despite only a little publicity and promotion.

But WAIT! Now that they've run out of last-gen games... they're going to release their least-successful and lowest-budget titles exclusively for the Wii.


It's totally illogical. Why do they start out with games that sell well, then continue to move in the opposite direction despite getting worse and worse results? 


PS: My friends got me a copy of Catz 2 for PC as a joke once. I played about two seconds before quitting.

[MrSingh]

professor prole

[BobFromPikeCreek]

A collection of smaller games. It's brilliant!

[Van Cruncheon]

PS: My friends got me a copy of Catz 2 for PC as a joke once. I played about two seconds before quitting.

because that game, like the wii in general, is NOT FOR YOU. buy a 360, or a pc. products for 16-34 year old males.

[WrikaWrek]

At least the Wii is still less embarrassing than the ps3.

[Van Cruncheon]

really. the wii simply isn't designed for our market, and really shouldn't even be discussed on gaming forums followed by predominantly 16-34 year old males.

the ps3, though, is just embarrassing. hell, the 360 ain't much better, and pc gaming is dead. gaming sucks!

[Crushed]

PS: My friends got me a copy of Catz 2 for PC as a joke once. I played about two seconds before quitting.

because that game, like the wii in general, is NOT FOR YOU. buy a 360, or a pc. products for 16-34 year old males.

I buy them. I also buy them on my Wii.


I'm just saying, Ubisoft's approach is like... is like if New Line decided one day that their entire DVD release list is going to be bargain-bin mid-90s movies found in a Wal-Mart, while The Hobbit goes exclusively to LaserDisc.

[WrikaWrek]

Ubisoft developers just don't give a shit about the Wii man.

I mean seriously, what dev actually wants to dev on the Wii, given the choice to dev on 360/Ps3?

[Van Cruncheon]

no, it's like one day new line decided it was only going to make family-friendly animated features and romcoms on dvd, and push the big budget action stuff on blu-ray for the aficionadoes -- at the point where blu-ray penetration is sustainable unto itself, of course. it doesn't make perfect sense, but if the romcoms can fund the good stuff for the folks who actually care about the medium, so much the better!

now sell your wii, taco, or stick to the real talk forum

only fans of gaming here

[Van Cruncheon]

Ubisoft developers just don't give a shit about the Wii man.

I mean seriously, what dev actually wants to dev on the Wii, given the choice to dev on 360/Ps3?

i have yet to talk to a single game developer who is enthusiastic to work on the wii

"bobobobobobo" says the ninthing, "they are only sad 18-34 year-old males who make games i hate"

"if not them, then who made all the games everyone in the hobby loved the last five generations" you ask his morbid obese-edness

"i only played mario, metroid, and zelda" he admits

[EmCeeGrammar]

Prole I think you spend more time discussing why Nintendo sucks then ... uhh your "real games"
I purchased it because I wanted games that didnt revolve around "guy holding weapon kills enemies" design. I wanted more focus on neglected genres and maybe the lack of convential controls would make developers think of new applications. I finally did get that in the form of boom blox but the genre representation is admitley weak. However theres no reason why sports(golf, bowling, etc), shmups, puzzle, srpgs, high budget 2d platformers, rail action games, racers, rhythm, pinball, etc cant be done on a single wiimote. And I can think of a few interesting projects announced so far that fit that criteria. Certain genres suffer but personally its that you vs. baddies vs spazz cam genre that Ive had my fill of.

[Van Cruncheon]

why should i discuss the games i like? i like 'em, and that's all there is to it

[Great Rumbler]

What is an Ubisoft game? A miserable little pile of minigames!

[Van Cruncheon]

there is more to the 360 library (and even the ps3 library) than shooting games. in fact, all the genres you mentioned are BETTER represented on the 360/ps3 except maybe the presumed "nintendo fanservice" genre

[Joe Molotov]

I mean seriously, what dev actually wants to dev on the Wii, given the choice to dev on 360/Ps3?

Steven Spielberg.

George Lucas, on the other hand, would choose the 360/PS3 every single time, for the same reason that certain gamers do. Because the games can look shinier and more plasticy.

[Van Cruncheon]

steven spielberg isn't a dev. we're talking about code jockeys, not over-the-hill populist product sponsors.

[Great Rumbler]

Steven Spielberg has 2 games on next-gen platforms.  Boom-Blox was meant to fund those.

I think we all know what the REAL truth is here.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The two next gen games will pay for the addition of costly "fun-shaders" that are heavily used in Boom Blox.

[close]

[Howard Alan Treesong]

gaming sucks!

or does it?

[Van Cruncheon]

OH GOD I HATE U

YOU PULL DOWN MY PC PANTS

YOU PULL OUT GAMING COCK

AND THEN YOU LEAVE ME STANDING THERE, ERECT AND NEEDY :'(

[EmCeeGrammar]

there is more to the 360 library (and even the ps3 library) than shooting games. in fact, all the genres you mentioned are BETTER represented on the 360/ps3 except maybe the presumed "nintendo fanservice" genre

1. 360 is expensive and breaks all the time. Ill spare you the anecdote.
2. PS3... nope, still flacid
3. I dont necessarily mean shooters. Ever since... forever game design is you control avatar through environment with the left side of the pad and use the right side for actions to kill enemies. It was fun. Its still fun but less so. Ive been getting into the fringe genres alot more lately. Ive discovered that puzzle, rhythm, and esoteric stuff like warioware is exactly what suits my tastes since they usually concentrate on gameplay and notsomuch mediocre story telling. And when I have a yearning for virtual homicide I can play the occassional offering that comes along.

[EmCeeGrammar]

why should i discuss the games i like? i like 'em, and that's all there is to it

Do you go around irl only expressing cynical sentiments?

[Van Cruncheon]

why should i discuss the games i like? i like 'em, and that's all there is to it

Do you go around irl only expressing cynical sentiments?

absolutely

[EmCeeGrammar]

Steven Spielberg has 2 games on next-gen platforms.  Boom-Blox was meant to fund those.

Like anyone should feel like that devalues it. Its original and fun and I dont have to hook up empty plastic to play it.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

why should i discuss the games i like? i like 'em, and that's all there is to it

Do you go around irl only expressing cynical sentiments?

No, not at all.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

some of his sentiments are racist

[close]

[MCD]

gentlemen, behold:

http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14254709/imagine-party-babyz/videos/BabyzPartyFootage.html

[EmCeeGrammar]

why should i discuss the games i like? i like 'em, and that's all there is to it

Do you go around irl only expressing cynical sentiments?

absolutely

How the hell did you get laid?

[Crushed]

well this thread turned out well

[Van Cruncheon]

why should i discuss the games i like? i like 'em, and that's all there is to it

Do you go around irl only expressing cynical sentiments?

absolutely

How the hell did you get laid?

women like assholes, duh

don't you read gaf

[WrikaWrek]

Well, maybe if Madworld is successful, things change.

Nintendo still has Day of Disaster in the making too. Things can still change for the better. On the more serious game side.