Ubisoft were big supporters of Nintendo during the Wii era which continued during the launch window for Wii U, however after sales of the system quickly dropped away the relationship between the two companies also cooled.
This was further demonstrated by an infamous situation where Ubisoft had a completed, ready for release Wii U game that the publisher decided to sit on to see if sales would recover.
Ultimately the identity of the game was revealed back in 2015 as friends-party game, Know Your Friends, a Jackbox-esque game that involved you answering questions about your friends.
Friend of Nintendo Life, Liam Robertson of Game History Secrets, has recently released a new video that explains the whole saga in detail and takes a much closer look at the title than ever before:
Whilst the game clearly wouldn't have turned around the fortunes of Wii U, it's another example of Ubisoft making the most of the unique dual-screen setup that the Wii U offered along with best in class examples Zombi U and and Rayman Legends.
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I was gonna say, he's about 3 years late to this one.
Hope they bring it back for Switch, I'm loving Jackbox and Use Your Words — the latter even more, if people haven't checked it out, they should. I'll take more of these kinds of games if I can.
@YummyHappyPills Well, I wrote that original report from 2015 so this is an update on my own writing. I intentionally waited before doing this video, which has much more information from my original report, because it was unclear if they were going to release it or not. This is the FULL story with lots of new material. It's not some retread.
@LiamR Just like Ubisoft intentionally waited.
@LiamR great work as always, sir!
@antdickens Thanks Ant.
Seems interesting. They could bring it back as a Switch title, and I'm sure it would fit better there.
Hopefully they don't getting any ideas on bringing this to the Switch. This game is cringeworthy.
It's always a shame when games are cancelled. Although Ubisoft were probably right; I think it would have flopped.
By the amount of comments in here looks like people as well as UBISoft moved on from this years ago.
The game reminds me of a digital cards against humanity. With some tweaking this would fit perfectly on Switch.
I thought this game looked kind of cool, but it would have been useless to me because I rarely have anyone around for local multiplayer. That said, if it was completely finished, why didn't they at least put it on the e-shop. That would reduce the manufacturing to zero, marketing to as little as they want, and they'd at least get something back. But for people saying they should port it to Switch, that would never work. You need to answer questions without your friends seeing the questions. For the Switch, that would mean continually docking and undocking the console.
@LiamR - love your work. Thank you for all you do for the history of video games.
I wouldn't have made a huge difference in the life of the Wii U, but it's a shame it will never see the light of day. I sometimes wonder if having games like this, Assassin's Creed Rouge, Alien: Isolation, and the handful of other games that released on 360/PS3 at the end of their life on the Wii U could have made a difference.
EDIT: There were 660 games on the Gamecube compared to 757 on the Wii U, but the Nintendo releases seemed to be less and they invest fewer resources in bringing third party content to the system (or perhaps picked poorly on projects to invest in).
Bring it to Switch! Might as well use those spent development dollars to good use on the Switch.
This definitely would have been a hit at my work, since we have game consoles and frequently play games like the Jackbox series. Such a shame.
@MongolRaider social contact in games in cringeworthy?
No, because this is all Ubisoft could think of as an exclusive to Nintendo gamers. It's really pathetic, if you stop to think about it. They offer Nintendo fans games like Monopoly, Just Dance, Rayman, while the other consoles get all of Ubisofts best games. It's sad how they treat a particular fan base as an afterthought, even though the Switch is selling like gangbusters. Not even a fan of most Ubi games, but it would be nice to get one, just one of their good titles, like BGAE2.
"Whilst the game clearly wouldn't have turned around the fortunes of Wii U, it's another example of Ubisoft making the most of the unique dual-screen setup that the Wii U offered along with best in class examples Zombi U and and Rayman Legends."
Or would it have? Or. Would. It. Have.
Zombi u was such a sick game!
What are these foot fetishes doing in Ubisoft's cancelled trivia game?
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