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Ubisoft Aims to Increase Developers Working on Assassin's Creed by 40%; Announces Financial Results

Ubisoft just announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2022-23, related to the period between April 2022 and March 2023.

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italiangamer391d ago

Ubisoft and Activision are the real life example of the saying "putting all your eggs in one basket", if Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty collapse they're gonna be in deep shit for sure.

-Foxtrot391d ago

Square Enix are the same with Final Fantasy

shinoff2183391d ago

Not as much as the other 2. We don't get a ff game as often as ac or cod. Square still manages some other releases in between. Just none as big as ff

-Foxtrot391d ago

Maybe not as bad but it's their golden child, take FF away from them and Square Enix are nothing. You have Kingdom Hearts and the like but not really full blown hot sellers.

solideagle391d ago

Square also has Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts. did they sell Tomb Raider/Hitman etc?

goldwyncq391d ago

They have Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest.

CrimsonWing69391d ago (Edited 391d ago )

What about all the Square Enix releases between FF releases? If FF was annual and we saw little to nothing else from the dev/publisher I’d agree.

They took a chance with Forspoken and it had a massive budget. Just not many liked it.

We’ve gotten some great gems from them like NieR. Dragon Quest is probably going to pretty big.

I think it’s more that FF is their most popular IP that they really put in all they have because the gamble won’t be like a Forspoken level disaster.

Capcom’s a bit similar with their IPs that sell. You get far more Monster Hunter and Resident Evil releases versus the new IP stuff.

Chevalier391d ago (Edited 391d ago )

Square has a very successful FF14 bringing in regular revenue and Dragonquest too so Squares fine. Plus FF isn't annual like AC or COD.

bangoskank391d ago (Edited 391d ago )

Not true, and Final Fantasy are actually good games that aren't rehashes of the same thing over and over again. Ubisoft should shift their focus on new IPs or something original or maybe not letting anticipated games like the sequel to Beyond Good & Evil 2 become vaporware. That company is a complete mess. I could see them being bought in the next couple of years.

-Foxtrot390d ago (Edited 390d ago )

The point is guys compared to FF games like Kingdom Hearts, Nier, Dragon Quest don't sell the same, they sell but they don't do FF numbers so they'd rather put all their eggs in that FF basket rather than doing more of the other games and new IPs

The last main game of Nier was Nier: Automata in 2017

Kingdom Hearts III was released in 2019

Dragon Quest XI was released in 2017

It's 2023 and a new mainline Nier hasn't been announced and the other two don't have release dates.

Over the past couple of years we've had multiple expansions for FFXIV, FFVII Remake, the Pixel Remaster, FFXVI, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion

It's clear were Square Enix priorities are, they couldn't even put the effort into a new IP like Forspoken

At the end of the day Square don't take risks because of FF

andy85390d ago (Edited 390d ago )

They are though. DQ and KH sell very well.

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isarai391d ago

And "Too Many cooks spoil the broth"

jznrpg391d ago (Edited 391d ago )

@mooppeister Feeling frisky?

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Chocoburger390d ago (Edited 390d ago )

AC has been spoiled ever since they ruined the lore, changed the freerunning, added endless grinding and upgrading elements, moved the attacks to the shoulder buttons for no reason, infinitely spawning named characters hunting you, and a massive, uninteresting skill tree, placed on a game world that is too big, bland, and boring, packed with copy / paste locations, all designed to artificially extend the length of their crappy games.

Nothing Ubisoft can do to salvage this train wreck of a franchise anymore.

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ModsDoBetter391d ago

Didn’t Ubi also have some controversy around their results with the top brass blaming the devs?

The last innovation AC ever seen was the jump to RPG with Origins and since then it’s just been bloat & microtransactions.

Feel the same with all of their main titles to be honest: Far Cry 1/2/3, all excellent. I’ve bought and tried 4/5/6 but can not get into them for the life of me.

WatchDogs has been an average franchise since inception and pretty much left. The Crew was a decent idea, executed poorly. Same with The Division, massive downgrades all around.

The only games I think they’ve managed well are For Honor and Siege as even Ghost Recon has been absolutely butchered.

They really should revamp Splinter Cell & Rainbow Six Vegas or something similar. Give AC and Far Cry a break for a while to keep it feeling fresh.

gleepot390d ago

ABK has so many successful franchises. CoD collapse would leave a huge dent, but they have many more baskets of eggs.

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senorfartcushion391d ago

Wow, just like Activision with Call of Duty.

This sounds like you want AC to be a live service platform. Well if you keep making crap like Xdefiant and The Division Heartland, you may as well just give up making a single-player open world game into a crap live service.

Who’s have though that the game from the PS3 demo disc with the white-cloaked assassin scaling a wall and knifing a Templar would eventually go on to become a crappy, useless multiplayer online-only storefront simulator with terribly-implemented RPG mechanics?

Profchaos391d ago (Edited 391d ago )

Agree but let's be honest back in 07 who thought AC would even get a sequel let alone a franchise it was mediocre at best and largely average. Critic's were quite harsh from memory

Pyrofire95390d ago

No. Activision tore down their studios and turned them into COD. Ubisoft is making their other games just as before, this is just an addition to their AC teams.

anast390d ago

They need a lot of tailing and eavesdropping missions to capture that old AC magic...

Pyrofire95390d ago

It seems like many are taking this info and just going "big company move mean bad company" Look I'm pretty sick of games taking 4-8 years to release. AC releasing 1-2 years apart is a great spot for me. The only one releasing this year is Mirage which is a smaller game than the RPG ones.
So what are people actually complaining about? Because adding to their workforce isn't directly good or bad.
Ubi still makes other games, adding to their workforce doesn't take from those.
You can bet any of the mobile and spin-off games are skippable if you really want, so they really don't effect you in any negative way or at all.
If you don't even like AC, why are you here?

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The Xbox showcase brought the E3 magic

After having to prove itself for years, Xbox doubled down and pulled it off..

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GaboonViper16h ago

Yep Xbox absolutely knocked it out of the park with that stunning show, it was everything a gaming showcase should be, games games and games, well done team Xbox.

CrimsonWing691h ago

It really did. Like I came out of that with the hype for new games I haven’t felt since… well the better years of E3.

monkey6021h ago

It was without a doubt one of the better showcases in years. There was plenty there that excited me. Something has been lacking in years on all platforms

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Sony Wishes Its State Of Play Was As Impressive As The Xbox Showcase

While the Sony State of Play had a critical lack of first-party titles and new stuff, Xbox came in hard and delivered one hell of an event.

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Goodguy0118h ago

SoPs usually are quite underwhelming. Xbox did a great job and hope Sony learns

Cacabunga7h ago

It was a great show, but still a multiplateform show. xbox needed to give a sign of life, and they did. Sony on the other hand showed some console exclusives..
State of play was light yes that’s clear, but Sony is still planning to deliver console exclusives.

romulus237h ago(Edited 7h ago)

The following games from the showcase are multi-plat and also coming to PlayStation and there may be more so perhaps what Sony learned was to let MS spend the money on advertising games for them.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Atomfall
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Clair Obscur: Expeditions 33
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Fallout 76: Skyline Valley
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
MechaBreak
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
Mixtape
Sea of Thieves: Season 13
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers

Kayser815h ago

romulus23:
they are advertising GamePass which the none subscribers have to pay 70$ for it.

Hello_World4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Buyers on PS help make Gamepass games even more profit by paying retail price, while Xbox gamers get all on day one using subscription. Huge difference.

blackblades4h ago

Sony been doing it before MS has for years, so they dont need to learn. If the time isnt right then the time isnt right.

-Foxtrot4h ago

I hope they learn aswell BUT looking at both sides at least Sony isn’t announcing games to show off again, and again, and again over a couple of years

While a good show there was a lot at Microsoft’s conference that were announced and shown off years ago. If Sony sticks to only showing off games when they are going to be released the same year then I kind of understand it but if they don’t then I’d be flabbergasted by it

1Victor3h ago

Let Sony do its thing when they drop the ball for gen and a half of duds shows then they’ll be even with Xbox and we should worry till then they earn it.
All that been said congratulations to Microsoft for finally doing the minimum of having good looking games coming soon took 100 billion to do it but hey gotta spend money to make money or so someone broke once said.

AsimLionheart2h ago

It was as much of a PlayStation Showcase as it was an Xbox Showcase. Most of the games they showed have been confirmed to be coming to PlayStation. Furthermore, even the ones they did not announce coming to Playstation yet are rumored to be coming to PlayStation in the near future. Sony will announce their first party games when the time is right. No point in announcing them 5 years in advance as MS did in 2020.

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italiangamer17h ago

It's embarrassing how "professional videogaming journalism" has fallen off.
Article written by a 13 years old full of acne.

Rebel_Scum5h ago

Gotta start somewhere. Especially with computers and AI taking jobs from fast food joints and supermarkets which traditionally hire teens.

isarai14h ago

I think people need to be aware that purpose of State of Play is updates on small scale and 3rd party games, their big scale showings are PlayStation Showcase.

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Terry_B7h ago

Approved this silly submission of an "opinion article" with the last 2 votes it needed to have a laugh at the upcoming comments.

Seriously, console war shit like this one should be banned from n4g.

Profchaos6h ago

I've noticed that console wait flame bait is the only thing getting approved lately with other articles taking a few days to show up after not getting approved

Terry_B6h ago

Aye. Usually I just use the "how submissions with most approvals" choice ..look what they are and approve. Wish we would have way more reviews here instead of opinion articles. So many of them are just bait.

OWCY2h ago

Ironic coming from you who have been a ps lover and xbox hater on this site since day 1

peppeaccardo7h ago

One one side a company that has brought real innovation in videos games with the first truly 3d graphics for mass entertainment, handheld devices, VR, great francises ... on the other side the Netflix of video games, and so .... who wants to be who? Let's stay focus and play some games kids.

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Why does Bushiroad keep killing off Love Live games?

Three Love Live mobile games have died in the past year despite the series’ ever-growing popularity both in Japan and worldwide, but why?

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