Ubisoft “disappointed” with their year so far |
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| BY Rain Anderson Jul. 27th, 2009 | More on: |
Ubisoft today revealed that it’s not having the best year so far. Thanks to rampant DS piracy and poorer-than-anticipated market conditions, their sales for the first quarter are down 51%. On top of that, stealth and sword fighting fans got some bad new when the company revealed that both Splinter Cell: Conviction and Red Steel 2 have slipped to 2010.
Understandably, Ubisoft isn’t exactly in a party throwing mood.
“You can see we are disappointed by this first half of the year,” Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in conclusion of its Q1 earnings conference call today. But despite the rough start, he stays hopeful that the heavy hitters arriving later in the fiscal year will turn things around. “We think that the games that we will have in the second half will be of very high quality, so this year… it’s not finished. We still have nine months to go and we hope we can come with games that will make a big impact on the videogame market this year and change those numbers to better numbers if they perform better than what we expect.”
July 27th, 2009
at 11:24 pm
I think it has alot more to do with Ubisoft going around thinking they are gods and make threats to game system that make them money! HAHA Ubisuck, its your own fault!
July 28th, 2009
at 12:27 am
“HahaUbisoft”, you sure you haven’t got Ubisoft mixed up with Activision?
July 28th, 2009
at 1:48 am
Where other companies play it save by churning out generic rehashes of tried and trusted formulas, simultaneous, Ubisoft deserves respect for their innovative titles. However, they have to get their sales and marketing sorted out. They are failing to do DLC right and they are leaving themselves vulnerable to piracy by near simultaneous release on unsecure platforms.
July 28th, 2009
at 5:36 am
It’s a slow year because there is no RAINBOW SIX!
July 28th, 2009
at 5:59 am
your not the only one UBI.
how many times is splinter cell conviction going to be delayed?
3 enough?
it will be out in 2007.
no wait make that 2008.
no sorry 2009.
no sorry 2010
seriously i think they need to change the abreviation from SPC to DNF!.
did not finish.
July 28th, 2009
at 6:05 am
and i really dont understand what there doing.
where not making any money this year so to counter that were going to delay all our games till next year??????????
its like saying i dont have enough money i need more money so to help me make more money im quitting my job and staying home all day.
how is delaying there games going to help them make money?
im 99.99999999% shure splinter cell conviction will sell better in october up against uncharted 2 and borderlands.
instead of going up against GOW3 heavy rain wet brink singularity mafia 2 bioshock 2 max payne 3 and so on.
there going to loose money if they release in march there going to get hung out to dry by GOW3.
releasing before april is suicide theres so many big AAA multi plats after april ok but not before.
they would of been way better off releasing it in october like they were suppose to.
July 28th, 2009
at 10:22 am
The fall of the gaming giants. Just watch.