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Ubisoft financials: 65% revenue increase YoY, Watch Dogs 9 million shipped
- Thread starter MauroNL
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Agreed. If people wolfing down a heaping helping of shit in the form of watch dogs allows Ubi to also throw out lower performing titles like Rayman, I'm totally fine with this.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Good for Watchdogs, it's not a terrible game and I'd like to see them develop into something good (ala Assassin Creed to Assassin's Creed 2). I'd be interested to know how/if they do any post-release focus groups.
maabus1999
Member
It will be interesting to compare the legs of Watch Dogs versus Destiny over the next several months. 9 million is not a bad for a new IP. Let's see if Destiny eclipses the number over the long term.
Super_Cobra
Member
Playstation is doing half of their profits. That's crazy.
It's got to be Europe that's causing that huge difference, and it makes sense if you look at the HW sales gap between the two consoles.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Ubisoft must be very happy with the PS4. Surprised they don't do more deals with Sony. Also the delusion level on the crew sales is hilarious.
geordiemp
Member
Yup, Ubi were doing well until they opened their parity mouths and tarnished their image.
Stuff like Rayman and filler titles are good to see.
Prototype Viktor
Member
i blame you all for this tragedy
Nintendo's profitable again just you watch Ubi going back on the Wii U train and get that up to 3% /s
Nintendo's profitable again just you watch Ubi going back on the Wii U train and get that up to 3% /s
theDeeDubs
Member
Glad Watch_Dogs sold well. It's a great game. Hope AC:U does good this Fall too.
randomengine
Banned
I am more perplexed by the 13% Other category. Is that mobile?
Why is that?
Because they're a shit company that makes lazy shit games.
Sad to see 9 million mugs who bought Watchdogs.
Actually, they're a company the makes games enjoyed by millions of people, just that their target audience really isn't here on NeoGaf. They also house thousands of great and passionate developers and the people I've met from there have all been awesome.
Which millions of people seem to like but... oh no I must not like what others like.
FloatingDivider
Member
Fuck, do they think Watch dogs was a success? I fucking hate videogaming. Watch dogs was a terrible abomination of a game. GG Ubisoft but I'm done picking up your collectible diarrhea carriers.
I thought Watch_Dogs was great, as does most of my friends.
Millions of people thought Hitler was great too, doesn't mean he was.
CaptainSlow
Member
Nice sales for Watch Dogs. I played it and enjoyed the hell out of it. I'd even say it was my GOTY for most of this year. Can't wait for the next one.
Wtf is this shit?
Wtf is this shit?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Did you just compare a company that makes video games to Hitler? And the people who enjoy said video games to the people who liked Hitler? ._.
Nearly 30% of all sales (27.8% to be exact). That's a nice figure. I wonder if by the end of this gen we'll get closer to 50%.
dude, you're so cool and edgy!
Deserved, I had so much fun with Watch_Dogs, here's hoping they improve the formula with the sequel.
Almost no one complained about Watch Dogs game play the entire focus was on its graphical effects and performance
UtterlyPerplexed
Member
I came simply to witness this glorious example of Godwin's.
Apart from all those people who complained the gameplay was the usual lazy, generic Ubisoft shite.
PdotMichael
Banned
Idiot
PS4 is going to sell regardless, Marketing through Microsoft will boost sells for them.
PS4 maintains + MS boost = Super Win for Ubi
DomsPlaying
Member
Surprised by the large gap between PS4 and X1 sales, whoa.
Also biggest points are right here on page 2 of their release especially digital sales being up 90%, huge increase:
Ubisofts sales performance in first-half 2014-15 reflects:
The ongoing success of Watch Dogs®, with more than 9 million units sold in.
A 90.4% surge in digital segment revenues, which reached 134.7 million (27.8% of total sales), fueled by digital distribution, mobile operations and sales of items and DLC.
A firm back catalog showing, stable at 113.7 million, thanks to the performance of Assassins Creed ® Black Flag, South Park TM: The Stick of Truth TM, Far Cry® 3 and Rayman® Legends.
theprodigy
Member
Watch Dogs vs Destiny is almost like PS3 vs 360, if you flip Japan
edit: oh yeah something something Mario Kart 8 will beat Watch Dogs in the long run /s
cleveridea
Member
Not sure how to feel about this.
Was very disappointed in Watch Dogs since the world just wasnt interesting to explore.
OTOH low sales of big expensive projects like this could mean they shift money to other areas like mobile, F2P or whatever
Was very disappointed in Watch Dogs since the world just wasnt interesting to explore.
OTOH low sales of big expensive projects like this could mean they shift money to other areas like mobile, F2P or whatever
Mass_Pincup
Banned
The gunplay feels like no Ubisoft games and I played Blacklist, Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, The hacking system albeit limited is a real twist compared to other Open world. The only thing they have in common are optional stuff like activate the different point of the map and the collectible. If you don't like them don't do them.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's fine if you don't like Ubi games but that doesn't mean that their success isn't deserved.
Damerman
Member
I'm not angry with their successful strategy, I'm angry with how it got to be so successful and how it makes them complacent. Complacent might be the wrong word... probably more like severely(to a fault) business-minded. The same thing that Activision are doing with COD. One of the most dubious foundations of business is: past history shows _____ so we should _____. Yes, its the smart thing to do because thats all we have to go on as dumb business men trying to earn a living... but what about another fundamental aspect of business: greater risk = greater returns.
I'm not saying GTA V is the riskiest AAA.... but it sure as hell can be pound for pound compared to the others. Look at those returns 34 million units... Nothing proves that Ubisoft is the most risk averse publisher than the fact that they extrapolate this "unlock map by going to the top of this to get more missions" structure to all their AAA open world games. And frankly, its becoming painfully obvious. They need to change, they are coagulating into a clot. To their credit, they have a diverse portolio that could see them through rough times, unlike Activision/Blizzard who has all their eggs in the COD/WOW basket. But still... they need to shake things up.
Inertia Creeps
Banned
EDIT: Two questions
If they remove it would it make the game better? And if they did remove it would you not just complain about the next common denominator?
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Because they make errand simulators.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I'd consider turning a series named Assassin's Creed into a full fledged pirate simulator to be pretty risky. There's also the bunch of new things they put out every year using Ubiart. They try more new things than any other triple A publisher imho because they have the size and dev teams for it.