Ubisoft has announced Just Dance 2016 during its E3 Media Briefing, which was an expected reveal. There were a couple of surprising elements to keep us on our toes, however.
For starters, it is coming to Wii once again, maintaining the series' impressive run on the last gen hardware.
In positive news for the Wii U, meanwhile, its version of the game is set to be on a par with those on Xbox One and PS4 in supporting Just Dance Unlimited. This will be a subscription-based service that'll bring those that pay a monthly fee a lot of extra tracks and content; it's clear Ubisoft wants to keep players engaged (and paying extra) over the whole year. Beyond that the Wii U version will also support the Just Dance Controller App, which turns supported smartphones into camera sensors that track your performance; you just hold it in your hand and dance.
As an aside it was also stated that Just Dance is now statistically "the biggest music video game franchise of all time". Just Dance 2016 is due to arrive this October.
Will you be showing your rhythm in the latest entry in this franchise?
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What a middle finger to the Wii U that they're still supporting the two-generation-old hardware of their last-gen system.
They didn't support the GameCube for another minute after that redesigned, motion-controlled GameCube hardware in a new white case came out. But they're giving the pathetic old Wii a full 3 years of extra support when the Wii U is a really significant jump?
Ubisoft please just give us more Rayman or disappear from the industry.
They are still supporting the Wii! Really?!
@TurboPikachu
In all fairness I don't think it's their fault people are still buying the game on that system.
Let's not forget a good majority of 100 million people out there bought a Wii for games just like this one.
wooooopieeeeeeee just dance yay ...
I have zero issue with them still selling the game for Wii.
Both my Wii's are still hooked up and are still being used. I also have a Wii U.
@JaxonH But also while the Wii has sold nearly 0 from 2012 onwards, the PS3 and 360 are catching up so fast. Remember when Wii was approaching 100 million while the PS3 and 360 were down around 50-55 million? Yeah, not anymore. Now while the Wii is at 101 million, the PS3 and 360 are at 85 million. The Wii version of JD2016 will by far be the worst version, and very few households still exclusively only have a Wii, most having picked up the now-affordable PS3 and 360 which both have official support lives ahead of them while the Wii lost mainstream Nintendo support the very second the Wii U hit the market 3 years ago.
So it's nothing
That lady on Ubisofts show was annoying,but not as bad compared to that 2008 Nintendo lady.
Wooooww, Just Dance Unlimited sounds great!
@TurboPikachu Have you played the latest Just Dance games on Wii? They're actually pretty great. And they have the best controller, the Wii Remote!
Just Dance 2015 sold most on Wii, and it sold a lot. The same might even continue with JD2016.
@TurboPikachu The Xbox and PS3 were like over 80 million almost 3 years ago.
@ikki5 The PS360 have also stalled. It looks like they might never catch the Wii despite Nintendo dropping Wii support so early.
You know,when that lady announced platforms the streaming service was coming to she neglected to say Wii U.She only said PS4/Xbone despite the screen saying all three platforms.
Need to go find the tracklist for this.
I'll pass but its good that the Wii U will have a comparable feature set to the PS4 and xbox 1
After a while it gets annoying knowing almost none of the E3 games announced today including EA and Ubisoft, will be on a Nintendo console (besides Just Dance.) I have a 360 but now that that's being phased out I can't play some of these new games unless I pay $350+. I mean what's so hard in porting some of these games to Wii U. Like the Unravel game EA showed looks perfect for Wii U.
@dok5555555 Tell me about it.I usually am not interested in multi platform games but occasionally I am.I don't have the money to by another console.I can not see my self buying a non-Nintendo console in the future though because I want my Nintendo games.It gets frustrating at times.
@JaxonH I think he believes those Wii owners will upgrade if they stop porting to the Wii. I don't think they will personally
"monthly fee"
Seriously? I would think all the people who buy this on Wii don't even go on the eshop (whatever it was called on Wii) and the few people owning a Wii U and buying this don't care either. I know the subscription is only on Wii U, not Wii, but is there really a monthly paying audience out there?
Well more power to them I guess. We did get Firework for free on Wii w/ JD2, but only b/c it was free.
I don't think I can take Ubisoft seriously after the Rayman fiasco, the bugs in AC and now Just Dance microtransactions (ups, "streaming"). I'll just focus on other games.
@Mahe The Wii U version supports the 'almighty' Wii Remote as well, thus rendering the Wii version the WORST version by far, no questions asked.
So yeah, after the Ubisoft conference, the only news about a Ubisoft game hitting a Nintendo console is... Just Dance. Quelle surprise.
@faint - I think some Wii owners would upgrade if they stopped making Wii games like Just Dance and Skylanders (really thought the new game would skip this year, instead it gets a downgraded version) but I can't blame Ubi for wanting to make money, the hardware business isn't their concern.
This year we may get the biggest upgrade mover though. No, not Splatoon, Lego Dimensions. If the parents of young children are still holding onto a Wii buying Disney and Skylanders they may need to upgrade for Lego D.
Price cut is necessary though, Target is selling the $350 X1 w/ a $50 GC this week. Wii U is a great system, but it can't be the same price as X1. And w/ the new 1TB X1 coming out, 500GB will be $300 by Christmas. And parents will buy a new console this year for Lego Dimensions, and price matters to parents.
@TurboPikachu But the Wii U version is hindered by the need to have the obnoxious Gamepad in order to use some features of the console.
So in that sense, the Wii version is actually superior to the Wii U version.
@DarthNocturnal This e3 so far I only enjoyed Bethesda and some of Microsoft's presentations. And of course Nintendo's videos so far have been great and tomorrow will be great!
@rjejr There have been several free DLC tracks over the course of the Just Dance series, some of which are even still available. The paid DLC tracks have also been fairly popular. Just Dance 3 even had that Mario track!
The online mode has also been completely free on Wii and other consoles where there's no separate subscription. The online mode still sees a lot monthly, weekly and even daily players, even in JD2014, so obviously the fans just don't get tired of Just Dance.
And what's more is that Ubisoft is hosting the Wii online mode for Just Dance on their own servers, so it wasn't affected when Nintendo's own Wii online services were cut off.
Mmmmm can you smell that 3rd party Ubi support? Haha
i may look into this if they launch it for the japanese game.
@Ryu_Niiyama The PS4 version will be region free so there's always that option.
@Mahe - Thanks for all that info. So JD is really a thing, and people are playing online, and maybe people really would upgrade to Wii U just to keep playing JD? That's crazy. Though after watching that part of the Ubi presentation I guess it makes sense. I wonder if they owe Glee a debt of gratitude?
So, you back from a self imposed year long exile for E3? I didn't think I'd see you back on here until Nintendo released the Wii U Mini w/o the Gamepad. (They released a Wii Mini bundled w/ MKWii of all games w/o any online capability, I figure they'll release a Wii U w/o the Gamepad somewhere down the road after NX launches.)
I have Just Dance 2015 and it's a lot of fun!
@rjejr Hah. Nice of you to remember that, I guess. The Wii Mini was a shoddy downgrade though, a Gamepad-less Wii U would be an upgrade of course!
As for Just Dance upgraders, there's not a whole lot that Wii U or the other HD consoles have offered before, at least. Just Dance has a graphical style that scales up pretty well to big flatscreen TVs even on Wii's SD resolution, and there are still a huge number of people with Wiis in use. This Just Dance Unlimited thing could spur some upgrades, but then again, Wii has the whole massive Just Dance back catalog available as disc releases. The thing with the Wii releases is, it's easy to take those discs to anybody who still has a Wii - or a Wii U! If you buy the Wii U version, then you have a lot less people who have the console and thus can play that version.
It doesn't shock me it's coming to Wii, in north America nintendo still supports and sells the Wii, unlike the rest of the world. Personally I think that conference was a huge let down, give us GOOD games, barely anyone cares about just dances 17 th entry -_- Ubisoft is almost as dead as EA to me at this point
@hYdeks That "barely anyone" will probably be at least a few million people who care enough to buy the game, not to mention all the people who will then play those games with friends, family and others.
As someone else noted, Just Dance 2015 sold the most copies on Wii over all other systems - and it sold a ton. It regularly placed in or very near the top 10 on the sales charts in North America most weeks during the holidays. Why wouldn't they continue making it for that console?
In fact, I believe the Wii U version was the second biggest selling version of the 2015 edition.
As much as people love to trash this series, there is clearly a big market for them.
@Zach I think it is, too. It's especially fun with a group of friends.
@TurboPikachu aaah the never ending wii hate from N64Kids never cease to amaze me. It's annoyimg but here you are...
1. "0 from 2012". Drop the hyperbole. It's ridiculous. The wii has sold less than used to but still manages to sell around 2000 a week. That's hardly a zero.
2. why would people spend 200+ dls in a console to play a game they can pretty good play in their already owned one. Only geeks and otakus (a niche) only give a damn about mega hyper HD graphics. Must users are very content to play a very well made game in their old hardware.
3."It's the worst version" says who? you? the wii versions are actually very well made and has lots of content. The only thing that will be missing this time will be the streaming service but besides that it will have the same songs.
4."it lost mainstream support when the wii u was released"?! hahahahaha! only Nintendo fanboys got a Wii U. The wii u hasn't been accepted by the huge audience of the Wii. They still have it and enjoy it simply because it has a very large selection of very good games (yes it does, sorry if you don't want to accept it).
Man all these years and the same idiotic anti-wii comments. When you geeks will give it a rest? You are ridiculous.
They are not "supporting" anything...releasing games on a system is not about supporting it, its about making the game available where it sells.
Who cares. Ubisoft doesn't like money is what i gather, i won't give them a cent. I think it's a slap in the face to Nintendo fans that the only games they think we'll play is this garbage.
@minotaurgamer I'm not an anti Wii person,but this comment could read as an anti-Wii U comment.
@Kevlar44 Wii U version of Just dance is apparently the 2nd best selling version next to Wii.
What's amazing here is the short sightedness of Ubisoft. Somehow they figure that the only games BOTH Wii and Wii U owners will ever play is Just Dance. They know these people buy games... But just this. So even though Nintendo manages to sell games like Splatoon, Ubisoft just gives up. Not a smidgen of an effort to tap into that audience with some innovative games or ports. They just gave up after some half arsed efforts. And now its sealef. No more games. Just Just Dance. No idea how to develop other games for this crowd. None. Unbelievable bad businesses these lame third parties.
@dumedum Sadly, this is how it goes and why Nintendo loses third-party support. Why bother with special games catered to the Nintendo crowd, when they can have the Xbox, Playstation, and PC gamers eat up their games that they simply port between the three platforms while racking in the cash.
This is the main reason why third-parties have pretty much walked away from Nintendo. They can see better success on other platforms with less effort put into their games.
Until this business model collapses, I don't see anything changing. And given Microsoft, Sony, and even the PC are built on the business model of making third-parties happy and ensuring they get their games, I think Nintendo will just fall further and further behind in terms of getting key support.
I blame canada on this one, or more specifically Nintendo Canada general manager Pierre-Paul Trepanier.
he's the jack that spouted off about great partner's like ubisoft.
ubi abandoned nintendo a long time ago.
@Mahe Yeah, I was trying to get that point across
No
@TurboPikachu So you want Ubisoft to make a loss on Nintendo hardware? They are making more from the Wii version than the Wii U, and Ubisoft have been more willing to make a loss on Wii U games than any other major third party.
This game isn't for me. I'll just move along rather than complain about it.
@Mahe Japanese Wiiu. Still on the fence about ps4 and xbox one.
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