• Light/Dark
  • Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.

Just Dance 2018 has a Wii version

argonsmash

argonsmash

Member
Oct 25, 2017
313
Wow, was watching The Voice and saw the commercial for Just Dance 2018 and it has a Wii version.

Didn't know software was still being released for the Wii. 11 years after the system launched.

Looked it up and the Wii Mini is still being produced in Europe. Amazing!
 
Diarrhea Day-Lewis

Diarrhea Day-Lewis

Member
Oct 27, 2017
20,755
Not gonna lie some of my best Xmas memories with my fiancé's family is playing Just Dance on the Wii On Xmas eve. I think it's Just Dance 3 they have.

I'm happy the Wii lives on even if it's a game like this. Console brought people together and still does.
 
Berordn

Berordn

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 26, 2017
9,739
NoVA
That's kinda interesting. So does it not tie into any of the DLC or monetization services they do with the other versions? If so I'm kinda surprised they'd be willing to sell a version of the game that they can't keep making money off of.
 
OP
OP
argonsmash

argonsmash

Member
Oct 25, 2017
313
DGenerator said:
Makes sense when the best-selling version of the game continues to come on the Wii.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

From the article: "The weirdness comes with Just Dance 2017. It arrived on lots of platforms and only managed a modest 26th place in the all-format chart. Here's the story though - 44% of those copies were the Wii version...Despite lacking some of the online features in current-gen efforts, there are still a number of people picking up the Wii version of this game. It's 2016 and this is still happening."
 
Shadow

Shadow

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 28, 2017
4,102
I guess the main audience that got the Wii still use it for these kind of games. I wonder how well a new Wii Sports would sell if they put it on the Wii now.
 
OP
OP
argonsmash

argonsmash

Member
Oct 25, 2017
313
Brandon said:
Maybe with the success of the Switch they won't have to release those versions? Where are they even getting cases for Wii games?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Sure, could be if Switch keeps building its user base and captures those Wii users. Might have another year or two of releases though if the sales of the Wii version don't decline too much.
 
Shauni

Shauni

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
5,728
Berordn said:
That's kinda interesting. So does it not tie into any of the DLC or monetization services they do with the other versions? If so I'm kinda surprised they'd be willing to sell a version of the game that they can't keep making money off of.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

While the overall licensing is expensive, the games themselves aren't and I'm sure it takes very little effort to port. It sells so much on its own apparently that I'm sure it's worth the effort
 

Deleted member 2171

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,731
The Wii version is the highest selling version since basically forever. The game amounts to an enhanced DVD in complexity to deploy at this point (yeah, i'm underplaying it, but the game is essentially a video shoot + some charting) - it won't make sense to stop releasing a Wii version until people stop buying it, or Nintendo shuts down Wii cert entirely. Hell, I'm almost assuming Nintendo is letting Ubi mostly self-cert JD at this point.
 
Last edited:
Boze Man

Boze Man

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,372
Bozeman, MT
A part of me feels bad for those few Complete Wii Collection people, who had to track down and pay for hard to find yet horrible games like Fritz Chess and Chuck E Cheese sports games, now having to drop $40 to add another Just Dance game to re-complete their collection or have an almost complete Wii collection.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.