Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, speaking with Les Echos, says the publisher has a $1.2 billion war chest for spending on acquisitions. The executive states the company needs to grow rapidly to keep pace with publishers like EA (which may, or may not, acquire Take-Two) and the other 800 lbs. gorilla on the block, Activision Blizzard.
Guillemot says acquisition isn't the only way Ubisoft is growing. The company is getting involved in films and licensing, along with opening up new studios and pushing into Asia. He also states that the company will begin working on CG movies, starting with mini films based on its franchises at first, and then moving on to feature films. Hopefully, any Ubi-produced CG film will fare better than Square's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
[Via GameDaily, Develop]
Reader Comments (27)
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 3:48PM baby sea tuna said
They should acquire me. I could really use some of that money. In return, I will sell them the rights to the Imagine:Prom-Night Dumpster Babiez game I'm developing.
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Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:18PM (Unverified) said
*Throws up.
Wow you people are really disgusting. I expect this on 4chan but not here.
Also you aren't thinking like a corporation, you think this game as a single title when Ubisoft can make a franchise out of it.
The first title could be
Imagine My first teenage unwanted pregnancy.
The second could be either Imagine: Abortionz / Coathangerz or Life as a single motherz or why not all of them. I’m thinking in something like Pokémon Diamond pearl version instead of variations between creatures you can choose if the baby lives or dies.
I like your idea of a special edition with a stylus shaped like a coathanger, it could be the special edition that would be only available at Gamestop. F*ck little game shops, who buys there anywayz?
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Wow you people are really disgusting. I expect this on 4chan but not here.
Also you aren't thinking like a corporation, you think this game as a single title when Ubisoft can make a franchise out of it.
The first title could be
Imagine My first teenage unwanted pregnancy.
The second could be either Imagine: Abortionz / Coathangerz or Life as a single motherz or why not all of them. I’m thinking in something like Pokémon Diamond pearl version instead of variations between creatures you can choose if the baby lives or dies.
I like your idea of a special edition with a stylus shaped like a coathanger, it could be the special edition that would be only available at Gamestop. F*ck little game shops, who buys there anywayz?
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:26PM baby sea tuna said
Good point, Mr. Esc. You are hereby in charge of the marketing department.
On his way out, the former division head informed me that the Limited-Edition Wii version will also come with a special hanger-shaped shell peripheral for the remote. This will also be compatable with the "Mommie Dearest" game scheduled for release in Q3.
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On his way out, the former division head informed me that the Limited-Edition Wii version will also come with a special hanger-shaped shell peripheral for the remote. This will also be compatable with the "Mommie Dearest" game scheduled for release in Q3.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:43PM (Unverified) said
What a great idea. I'm glad we are all in the same boat here.
I love; I really love the release date Q3 just Brilliant I mean Ubisoft was only going to release 25 titles during Q3:
Only 5 Rabbids game.
15 Imagine games including
Imagine: B*tch go and get me a Sandwichz.
Imagine: Women place is in the kitchenz.
Imagine: Why can’t you make a darn coffee woman? My secretary makes better coffee than this sh*tz.
4 ports of Ubisoft older titles for Wii but with decreased graphics and more loading times.
Oh yeah and Far cry 2 I guess.
But with out titles we can assure that Q3 of this year will be the most saturated months in gaming history until Q4.
Also we need the PSP ports that we are going to announce as the best with original content you won’t have anywhere else (Yeah as if) but we’ll make the PSP version so broken and with so many loading times that the people who bought it will be forced to get the Ps2 and Wii version. The suckers will trade in their PSP versions to buy the Wii and Ps2 version that will have the same exact content with less bugs and loading times and it will be cheaper too so the suckers will be encouraged to do so. The idiots will buy the same game twice isn’t it great?
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I love; I really love the release date Q3 just Brilliant I mean Ubisoft was only going to release 25 titles during Q3:
Only 5 Rabbids game.
15 Imagine games including
Imagine: B*tch go and get me a Sandwichz.
Imagine: Women place is in the kitchenz.
Imagine: Why can’t you make a darn coffee woman? My secretary makes better coffee than this sh*tz.
4 ports of Ubisoft older titles for Wii but with decreased graphics and more loading times.
Oh yeah and Far cry 2 I guess.
But with out titles we can assure that Q3 of this year will be the most saturated months in gaming history until Q4.
Also we need the PSP ports that we are going to announce as the best with original content you won’t have anywhere else (Yeah as if) but we’ll make the PSP version so broken and with so many loading times that the people who bought it will be forced to get the Ps2 and Wii version. The suckers will trade in their PSP versions to buy the Wii and Ps2 version that will have the same exact content with less bugs and loading times and it will be cheaper too so the suckers will be encouraged to do so. The idiots will buy the same game twice isn’t it great?
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 3:49PM baby sea tuna said
Fair enough, but what about a Prince of Persia?
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Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:13PM Rubix42 said
Sure, but with the fan success of FF VII Advent Children, Square showed it can be down properly. Plus, take Ubi-films, through in a well known producer (aka Jerry Bruckheimer, working on the PoP movie) and a good director, you may have money well spent.
A CG Splinter cell would be bad, but a CG PoP could be dynamite. Too bad we can't just call them Western Anime's or something cooler than CG Films though.
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A CG Splinter cell would be bad, but a CG PoP could be dynamite. Too bad we can't just call them Western Anime's or something cooler than CG Films though.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:03PM (Unverified) said
Better them than freaking EA...
God thats so much money...I wonder what the average salary over there is?
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God thats so much money...I wonder what the average salary over there is?
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:07PM (Unverified) said
Why make Trillions when you can make BILLIONS!
*Puts little finger in lip.
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*Puts little finger in lip.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 9:24PM (Unverified) said
it's nice to get drunk before reading joystiq comments.
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Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:13PM falcomadol said
Ubi films based on Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil would be massive.
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Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:20PM (Unverified) said
For some reason I see "Directed by Uwe Boll" under the title of those movies.
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Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 4:25PM Korova Pamplona said
Quick ... lets start a game company and announce that we are making a game about rabbits. Ubi wants to corner the rabbit-based games market, so they will have to buy us out.
Step 3: profit
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Step 3: profit
Posted: Jun 2nd 2008 7:11PM jhowlett said
spirits within was an okay sci fi story that didn't need to be in all CG. it didn't feel like a final fantasy story. no chocobos, no moogles, no gil, i'm blanking on if there was a cid. the movie was a technical and visual masterpiece but if you call it final fantasy i'd like to see a mage ( black, while, or red ), some armor, something that recalls something in the games. even cat or bunny girls
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