{"id":95429,"date":"2019-06-21T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/ubisoft_is_still_releasing_just_dance_on_wii_because_the_audience_wants_it"},"modified":"2019-06-21T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T01:05:00","slug":"ubisoft-is-still-releasing-just-dance-on-wii-because-the-audience-wants-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/21\/ubisoft-is-still-releasing-just-dance-on-wii-because-the-audience-wants-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Is Still Releasing Just Dance On Wii Because The &#8220;Audience Wants It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d02ac3c8d4d1d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d02ac3c8d4d1d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Just Dance 2020\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d02ac3c8d4d1d\/just-dance-2020.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d02ac3c8d4d1d\/just-dance-2020.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Just Dance 2020\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Ubisoft might have dropped support for the Wii U, but it continues to release <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/just_dance\">Just Dance<\/a><\/strong> games on Nintendo&#8217;s original Wii device. Why is that? According to a Ubisoft representative who was contacted by Polygon recently, it&#8217;s simply because there&#8217;s still demand for the series on this platform:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em>Just Dance 2020<\/em> is coming to the Wii because our audience wants it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to this official statement, there&#8217;s been a theory doing the rounds on social media for the past week, suggesting it&#8217;s all to do with Ubisoft needing to supply hospitals:<\/p>\n<p>While Ubisoft has &#8220;donated consoles and Just Dance games over the years to children&#8217;s hospitals where they use the game with patients to help with movement, exercise, rehabilitation and just for fun&#8221; there&#8217;s still an audience outside of this area:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8221; A lot of our players are children and families who continue to play on Wii&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there you have it &#8211; Ubisoft is still releasing Just Dance on the Wii because people, in general, are still playing the game on the platform. The latest entry <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/just_dance_2020\">Just Dance 2020<\/a><\/strong> arrives on the Switch and Wii this November.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can you believe there are still people out there playing Just Dance on the Wii? Are you one of them? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft might have dropped support for the Wii U, but it continues to release Just Dance games on Nintendo&#8217;s original Wii device. Why is that? According to a Ubisoft representative who was contacted by Polygon recently, it&#8217;s simply because there&#8217;s still demand for the series on this platform: \u201cJust Dance 2020 is coming to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}