Nintendo Wii U launch title ZombiU could infect the PlayStation 4 in the near future, according to a new report on Unseen64 citing a Ubisoft source. While there's very little to go on, the website does have a very good track record with rumours regarding the French firm; it recently revealed an unreleased party game for the House of Mario's challenged home console, and claims that this tidbit stems from the same source.
The takeaway here is that, while the port appears to be very much in development, there's no guarantee that it'll ever see the light of day. The publisher will need to work around the fact that the title was originally built with the GamePad in mind, for example, and while compatibility with the PlayStation Vita would be very cool, it's not like it's going to be able to mandate that. And even if it overcomes said hump, there will still be question marks over how well it will actually sell.
Would you like to take a tour of a corpse-infested London on your PS4? Warble your way through Rule Britannia while pumping dead bodies full of lead in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com, via nintendolife.com]
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Wii U can keep it. It's a terrible game
The only game on WiiU that actually put some sense in owning a Gamepad... and it was not from Nintendo...
Great launch game, pity that it sold so poorly...
Ubisoft need to make their money back. I'd prefer it if they ported Assassins Creed Rogue to PS4. I can't understand why they haven't done that yet.
Always fancied playing that, maybe, if the price was right
I'll pass.
This game should be on Wii U.
Also: enough with the zombies! GEESH
With The Last of Us, The Walking Dead and Dying Light, this has no chance. Specially since Ubisoft will probably keep the poor graphics and the bugs in there, even three years later.
One of my favorite Wii U games, I hated to get rid of it when I sold my Wii U. I'd love to have it again, IF its done right. And Vita support WOULD be pretty cool.
Zombi U was, and still is, the best example of what can be done with the gamepad... but thats really all it is. porting it to a system like the 4 or the One means stripping away its only worthwhile qualities, or at the very least making them exclusive to Vita / Smartglass owners. Whats left is a pretty ho-hum, generic zombie game...
Nope
No thanks....
It'll just get buried by other ( better) zombie games.
Why, this game was and still is horrible
I'd play it.
Hmmm... I played it. The game does have flaws (like why I can't just choose what my character looks like, don't give me random people and no I don't care I'll mostly never see their faces, and weapon choices were rather, uh, limited) but is 700K units sold really that bad? (That number was on Nintendoenthusiast sometime last year, by the way)
I mean, I realize it was bad for ubisoft's apparent point of view, but still...
Ubisoft will probably port Just Dance, next. Damn, Ubisoft are whores.
@AyeHaley
Why? It didn't sell well on there. Obviously it should be somewhere else.
I figured that if this game showed up again, it'd be a sequel on XBO and PS4, but Ubisoft may be just testing the waters with a port to see if a full sequel/revival is in the cards.
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