No one complained "OMG NINTENDO IS RUINING THE MARIO FRANCHISE FOREVER!!" When Mario Party 2 came out. People said "I wish there was another platformer", yes. But no one had "Party Disownership" clubs or claimed that the Mario franchise will become nothing but party games.

Here's the deal- Ubisoft loves money. Rabbid games are cheap and easy to make . Case in point: one deveolper said that if they had an idea for a minigame in a day or two they'd have have a testable version of that idea.

A full-blown Rayman platformer takes time, and therefor it's harder to bank on a series that only has a release once every few years. If there is a platformer in development it's probably in pre-dev stages right now and who can say if the game will be anything like the pre-dev stages? Little known fact- Michael Ancel left Rayman 2 development 80% or so of the way in to design Rayman 3 and a Rayman Kart racer.

The final Rayman 3 had nothing to do with Michael Ancel, and there never was a kart racer from Ubisoft.

OMG! We waz robbed of a michael ancel rayman game!!!11 QUK!!! DIZOWN DA HOODLUMZ!!!11!