You may not notice by looking at your friends or local top selling lists, but consumers are upgrading pretty fast to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, at least according to Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot. So quickly, that the publisher sees it's enough with the support they've shown during this year for older platforms:
"What we see is that this year is still fine for the PS3 and 360, but next year because they are selling very quickly, we'll move to the new hardware," Guillemot explains GI. "After 2015, it will be hard for us to create games for those systems."
But it's a different story when it comes to Wii U. Ubisoft support does not depend on install base or adoption rate, it seems. It's a matter of target audience and specific genres.
"Nintendo customers don't buy Assassin's Creed. Last year, we sold in very small numbers.", unveils the exec in the same interview. Indeed, "across Ubisoft's portfolio, Nintendo Wii U sales only represent three percent of the total for the fiscal year".
Thus, and seeing that biggest Ubisoft success on Nintendo platforms is Just Dance, "we are trying to do is to focus more on the types of games they are interested in", and this means no more action movie-like games for the Wii U from this publisher. Watch Dogs will be the last one, "the only mature game we publish on it", says Guillemot.