Ubisoft boss ready to take on the big guns as he dismisses talk of a buyout. The world’s biggest media conglomerates will snap up publishers left, right and centre in the coming months – but they would be wasting their time by tapping up Ubisoft. That’s according to Yves Guillemot, who this week told MCV that he was chomping at the bit to take on the likes of Warner Bros, Fox Media and the other global giants who reportedly have their eye on a slice of the games business.
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Ubisoft announced today that Assassin's Creed has sold more than two and a half million units worldwide and it expected to sell more than 5 million units in the fiscal year 2007-08. The publisher's previous estimate was three million.
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"[Nintendo's mass market strategy] is very profitable for Nintendo, and very profitable for all third-party publishers, Because [the strategy] is working, we create more products [for Nintendo platforms] and this will actually bring more people into the industry. " PS3/360:"Before, it was costing us more like 20 percent, just because it was difficult to learn the PS3 hardware, but now our engines are done, and we can easily develop for both machines."
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Officials from French publisher and developer Ubisoft have announced that the company is to open a second games production studio in China, with plans to hire 200 workers within a year.
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The company that brought you Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Rayman is ramping up its casual games division, finally, thankfully bringing a series of casual Ubisoft developed titles to the Nintendo DS and Wii. Thank God. No casual games drought. In addition to adding new species to its popular Petz series, confirming that horse, cat and dog care sims would be coming to the Wii, Ubisoft revealed the first titles in its My Coach series. My Word Coach, which Ubi reports is "being developed in collaboration with linguists and will help players improve their verbal communication and vocabulary in a fun way" will hit the Nintendo DS and Wii this fall. Following that is My Life Coach for the Nintendo DS, a motivational personal coach for strengthening willpower. You may remember that we posted recently about some Ubisoft language training games, also under the My Coach label, showing up on retailer sites. Now if we can just get some software to address Fahey's need of a furry coach.
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Ubisoft Montreal's resident celebrity producer Jade Raymond (Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II) is to lead Ubisoft's new Toronto-based development studio, the company said today. Slated to open by the year's end, Ubisoft Toronto will be working on "AAA games and new intellectual properties," Raymond noted.
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Back in February, Ubisoft announced it was making a short film based on the upcoming action game Assassin's Creed. An Ubisoft spokesperson told the International Herald Tribune that, "We may consider doing longer-form films or television sometime in the future."
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I realize that similar articles have been posted but I think that these sales numbers are easier to read from 1up. Rayman Raving Rabbids (830,000), Red Steel (950,000), Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (1,700,000), Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (1,000,000 ), Petz games, including Dogz, Catz, Hamsterz Life, et. al. (3,500,000 ) Just in case you don't want to read, according to Ubisoft, those numbers are sales and not shipped.
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Ubisoft seems to be less than thrilled with the U.S. gaming industry as of late, and Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot explains why: "First, our money - the pound or the euro - is very strong and because of that the turnover from those countries is heavier than they used to be," he explained during an interview at Games Convention. "So for Ubisoft turnover Europe is actually more important than the US now, and by more than 5 per cent. It's become a very strong market for us.
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