Ubisoft pleased by Wii Success

Expects to be producing Nintendo quality titles for the platform next year. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot delivered a presentation during BMO Capital Markets' Annual Interactive Entertainment Conference in New York City on Tuesday, offering thoughts on each of the leading platforms and expressed particular pleasure in the success of the Wii. Success he expects to continue.''[Nintendo's mass market strategy] is very profitable for Nintendo, and very profitable for all third-party publishers,'' said Guillemot. ''... because [the strategy] is working, we create more product [for Nintendo platforms] and this will actually bring more people into the industry. The Wii is going to continue to do extremely well with no limit to growth.''Wii development is obviously of great importance and Guillemot noted that the publisher currently has between 400 and 500 people dedicated to Wii development and believes Ubisoft will be producing ''Nintendo-like quality'' on the Wii next year.The CEO was also full of praise for the Nintendo DS which he said has helped expand Ubisoft's business, with Ubisoft CFO Alan Martinez adding that the platform's low development costs mean profits can be made on much less successful titles: 100,000 DS sales will see a profit compared to around 1.3 million units required for profit on PS3 and Xbox 360.Guillemot also had positive comments about the Xbox 360 and PS3. He put much of the Xbox 360's success down to the execution of Xbox LIVE and its features, while praising the PS3 for bringing the movie and video game industries closer together. He also noted that the two consoles are very close in regards to performance.''We consider those two machines close in what we can do with them,'' he said. ''...It doesn't cost more than 10 percent extra to develop for the other machine. So you start [development] on either 360 or you start on PS3.''This wasn't always the case though: ''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.''Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed is expected to do solid business this winter and Guillemot believes the game will achieve an average review score of over 90%. We've only just got our hands on the final game so it's too early to know if Guillemot will be correct in his prediction. Look out for our review next week.

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Ubisoft pleased by Wii Success
''believes Ubisoft will be producing ''Nintendo-like quality'' on the Wii next year.'':lol: Let's just hope they can muster half of what Nintendo can do.Ubisoft pleased by Wii Success
Yeah, let's hope. Red Steel sucked baaaaad.
Super Rabbit Galaxy next year?
i could care less what ubisoft thinks. because all they do is put their C, most B teams to develop games for nintendo consoles. with the ecxeption of rayman, name a game that's worth any attention developed by them on trhe wii.
I hope they make a new Rayman platformer.
Big talk Ubi, now back it up.
i dont think ubisoft is the only developer pleased with nintendo's success i think almost every developer is because they know they can make 3rd rate games and people will buy them just because of the large amount of people that own wiis.
Well, I'm not pleased with their titles.
It's good that there's a third-party out there that's willing to focus a good portion of their resources to developing for the Wii. Their games haven't been phenomenal or anything, but the more games the better. And you never know which ones might turn out to be great.
Success created in no way by them. Rayman may have been good, but the rest were garbage. They had better step it up.I do believe that they can produce some of the best games around (Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia), so it's not a question of talent.
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I hope they bring Assassin's creed to the Wii and many other good games
[QUOTE=''Travo_basic'']Well, I'm not pleased with their titles.[/QUOTE]Yeah, all of their releases have been pure garbage this far (RRR being an exception, although it's average/good at best imo)
[QUOTE=''Duckman5'']Big talk Ubi, now back it up.[/QUOTE]My thoughts exactly. Rayman owned, but they have work to do to make up for FarCry and Red Steel. LOTS of work.
[QUOTE=''LINKloco'']''believes Ubisoft will be producing ''Nintendo-like quality'' on the Wii next year.'':lol: Let's just hope they can muster half of what Nintendo can do.[/QUOTE] lol i was thinking the same thing actually :Pubisoft has really gone downhill.
[QUOTE=''LINKloco'']''believes Ubisoft will be producing ''Nintendo-like quality'' on the Wii next year.'':lol: Let's just hope they can muster half of what Nintendo can do.[/QUOTE]Well they've already beaten Nintendo badly when it comes to one of the main genres the Wii leands itself to.Rayman beats Nintendo's best efforts with Warioware and Mario Party easily. If they can build on that win and carry it over to other genres it'll be quite a victory.You have to figure that Excite Truck could be trumped by Nitrobike this holiday season and then that's two genres that Ubisoft is beating Nintendo.
[QUOTE=''Jaysonguy''][QUOTE=''LINKloco'']''believes Ubisoft will be producing ''Nintendo-like quality'' on the Wii next year.'':lol: Let's just hope they can muster half of what Nintendo can do.[/QUOTE]Well they've already beaten Nintendo badly when it comes to one of the main genres the Wii leands itself to.Rayman beats Nintendo's best efforts with Warioware and Mario Party easily. If they can build on that win and carry it over to other genres it'll be quite a victory.You have to figure that Excite Truck could be trumped by Nitrobike this holiday season and then that's two genres that Ubisoft is beating Nintendo.[/QUOTE]Come on. I'm trying to bash Ubi here.=p Seriously, I preferred WWSM > RRR. I actually ended up selling RRR after two days of playing it. Did it outsell WWSM? And I see topping ExciteTruck as no huge feat. I'm talking the level of Nintendo's best. I want to see that type of quality from Ubi on the Wii.
[QUOTE=''Jaysonguy''] [QUOTE=''LINKloco'']''believes Ubisoft will be producing ''Nintendo-like quality'' on the Wii next year.'':lol: Let's just hope they can muster half of what Nintendo can do.[/QUOTE]Well they've already beaten Nintendo badly when it comes to one of the main genres the Wii leands itself to.Rayman beats Nintendo's best efforts with Warioware and Mario Party easily. If they can build on that win and carry it over to other genres it'll be quite a victory.You have to figure that Excite Truck could be trumped by Nitrobike this holiday season and then that's two genres that Ubisoft is beating Nintendo.[/QUOTE] sorry, Warioware kicks rayman in the behind, and both excite truck and nitrobike will be put down by mario kart.besides, what about the other genre's? don't they exist anymore?
Man I wonder what those 400-500 guys have in development for us. OMG maybe its gonna be Raving Rabbits 3! -_-. I really hope Ubisoft picks up their act though..