Sales of games from the company Ubisoft at the end of the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year (ended June 30) decreased by 17% at once. This is stated in the official report of the French publishing house.
Net sales declined to € 353 million (-14%) and net orders to € 326 million (-21%). You need to understand that for the same period in 2023, the company’s revenues reached record levels due to the pandemic, which forced the players to stay at home.
At the same time, in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, the publisher had a fairly extensive line of releases. So, the game came out Uno: 50th Anniversaryas well as additions and updates for Assassin’s creed valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Rainbow six siege, Anno 1800, For Honor and The division 2…
In the second quarter, Ubisoft predicts a net order volume of € 340 million. The company plans to release an exclusive for the Chinese market during this period. Rabbids Adventure… The studio is responsible for the development Ubisoft Chengdu, and the game will be released only on Nintendo Switch…
In addition, a service for playing guitar will be launched on PC soon. Rocksmith +… Updates and additions for other games of the company will not go anywhere.
Last week at Ubisoft suddenly made a decision on the postponement of release dates for two large projects at once. Riders Republic will now be released on October 28, and Rainbow six extraction will reach the shelves only at the beginning of 2023.
And this week the publishing house announced F2P shooter Tom Clancy’s XDefiant, and the debut trailer has a lot of negative reviews. In particular, the game is called a clone Call of Duty, which the neural network designed.
The accusations are not far-fetched. The fact is that the new project was presented by a former executive producer Infinity ward Mark Rubin, which fans of Call of Duty still remember the phrase about “advanced AI fish” and other strange sayings.
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