360 dominance.

[DrunkenThumbmaster]

The Hardware Numbers are decent but the level of success for software is just amazin in about a month GRAW 2 has sold a million copies. GH2 a month old PS2 game is selling great. It's been commented on how much time Bethesda took with the Port of Oblivion to the PS3 for all there effort there game of the year managed no better than 20 on the charts. Meanwhile 360 games are doing great eventually this will lead to more exlusives and I honestly can't see how Konami or Square Enix can justiify making MGS4 or FFXIII exlusive unless Sony pays for them.

Ubisoft Q4 Up 37%, Yearly Sales Rise 24%

Ubisoft has announced that its fourth quarter sales rose 37.4 percent from €144 million to €197 million ($267.5 mil) on strong sales of GRAW2 and TMNT, beating both analyst and the company's own quarterly estimates.

The publisher also announced that sales for the full 2006/2007 fiscal year were up 24.4 percent to €680 million ($923.4 mil), the company announced.

Ubisoft's fourth-quarter sales beat the €152 million ($206.4 mil) target it had projected, as well as recent analyst estimates, with Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter recently raising the publisher's estimates from €157 million ($213.7 mil) to €167 million ($227.3 mil) following March's NPD software sales report.

Ubisoft said its performance was driven by sales of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, which sold a million units on the Xbox 360, and its multiplatform Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie license, which has thus far sold 1.1 million units across 8 platforms.

The company has also seen strong sales of previous quarter titles such as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas, with 1.7 million sales, and its Wii lineup, where Rayman: Raving Rabbids and Red Steel have seen respective sales of 830,000 and 950,000 units since the console's launch. The company also says its Petz franchise has collectively sold 3.5 million units throughout the fiscal year.

The company has said that throughout its past quarter it has notably become the second largest independent publisher in Europe, with growth of 31 percent outpacing market growth of 15 percent.

It has also become the number one third party publisher on the Wii, DS, and Xbox 360, and the third largest independent publisher in the U.S., with growth of 41 percent outstripping the region's 28 percent growth.

Looking forward to 2008, Ubisoft has raised its full fiscal year targets to €800 million ($1.09 bil) "to reflect the quality of its games line-up and favorable outlook for the sector."

The company also expects Q1 sales to rise 71 percent to €120 million ($163 million) on sales of its movie license tie-in to Sony Pictures' Surf's Up, four new games for both the Wii anad the DS, and the PlayStation 3 release of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas.

Said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, "Our fourth quarter performance was an excellent way to round off 2006-07, a year in which we exceeded all of our targets... Our investment in games for the Xbox360, Wii and Nintendo DS systems has paid off and we have successfully broken into the casual games segment with the Petz series of games... We intend to reap the full benefits of the ramp-up of new generation consoles and grow, again this year, our presence in the casual market on the Wii and Nintendo DS systems. Ubisoft should continue to win market share and significantly boost its profitability in 2007-08."

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=13689

[Gamer From '78]

The Hardware Numbers are decent but the level of success for software is just amazin in about a month GRAW 2 has sold a million copies. GH2 a month old PS2 game is selling great. It's been commented on how much time Bethesda took with the Port of Oblivion to the PS3 for all there effort there game of the year managed no better than 20 on the charts. Meanwhile 360 games are doing great eventually this will lead to more exlusives and I honestly can't see how Konami or Square Enix can justiify making MGS4 or FFXIII exlusive unless Sony pays for them.


I'll save us all some trouble here and make Folken and LastLoad's replies for them.

It is meaningless. When Lair and Heavenly Sword come out and utilize the 8 SPU's of the PS3, nothing will be able to touch the PS3. It will show it's dominance through it's brilliant hardware design and foreward thinking approach to the future of gaming. Again DT, you spew FUD when you don't know what you are talking about.

Who cares. Xbox and GRAW2 are bad. I no like FPS and Halo is bad, even though I have played never. Resistance is good game. I play three times now. It on PS3 and I am loyal Capt. Sony 001. Does anyone care about Ubisoft? I don't think so. So therefore it for to must be fact.

Yep...that's about how it plays out. :rolleyes:

[Dancer O_o]

You even got Folkens lackadaisical writing style down just perfect. You bring heat upon yourself with LW, good luck!

[folken001]

And, Slade was right once again. Can anyone ever wrong that man? I think he's flawless.

And you're basically a MS shill, so both of you are on even footing....... well, nix that, he probably never robbed a mom and pop store to get his gaming fix.

He said it there and you did it here.

Somehow, Ubisoft's strong sale translates into 360's dominance in hardware. Even though, it was never just 360 titles alone. The only 360 exclusive title mentioned in the article is GRAW2. M$ takes credit for strong sale of other Wii/PS2/PC titles too?

I mean, what's going on here? Is this the best positive spin ever?

[PapaSmurf]

And, Slade was right once again. Can anyone ever wrong that man? I think he's flawless.



He said it there and you did it here.

Somehow, Ubisoft's strong sale translates into 360's dominance in hardware. Even though, it was never just 360 titles alone. The only 360 exclusive title mentioned in the article is GRAW2. M$ takes credit for strong sale of other Wii/PS2/PC titles too?

I mean, what's going on here? Is this the best positive spin ever?
Ba Dum PISH!

I don't know how Konami and Square-Enix can afford to keep MGS4 and FFXIII exclusive
Yea I was thinking the same thing last gen for the Xbox in regards to Lucasarts (KOTOR), Tecmo (Ninja Gaiden), EA (Strangers Wrath). Sure they would've take a graphical hit on the PS2, but I gurantee they would have sold ten times the ammount they did on Xbox. Not that userbase ever mattered when talking about exclusives with the PS2, Xbox, and GC

[ThaMaskedGamer]

I've saying all along, software sales are the key. Software is the blood of this industry. This is a puzzle Nintendo still has to piece together in N.A. And Sony doesn't have a clue. But I think the Japanese companies actually have a different philosophy now that I think about it. The strategy it seems to me is to offer GREAT games in great quantity and this will entice gamers to buy hardware. But looking at how the PS2 succeeded and looking at how the Wii is doing now, it seems their strategy is just to pimp and overpromise the hardware, get mass volume, and then gamers will be stuck and buy software. I'll bet that even if Nintendo wins the hardware numbers say after 5 years, 360 will have sold way more software. Remember XBOX was neck in neck, indeed winning the last year or so, against the PS2 in terms of software sales in the U.S.

If I'm a publisher or a developer and I wanna make money on a big-budget project 360 is my first stop. You can't make a big-budget project on Wii. And you'd be a fool to gamble on selling anything in big numbers on PS3, especially a huge budget project.

[Mochan]

That's a good point TMG, definitely I think the lots of great games strategy is the way it should be. The Wii right now is following the pimp the hardware strategy. The PS2 though I beg to differ followed the latter strategy (eventually), as does the PC (always has), and the XBox as well follows this strategy, though not to the extent of the 360.

Nintendo though follows the killer app strategy in general, I think, and killer app to Nintendo means milking their name franchises to the ground. Which, truth be told, is how Sony also operates for the most part. Xbox (like the PC) likes to work by making new franchises, which is good, and while this wasn't as apparent in the last gen it is more apparent with the 360. The PS2 though did follow this along with milking existing franchises -- the PS2 pretty much did it all.

[ThaMaskedGamer]

That's a good point TMG, definitely I think the lots of great games strategy is the way it should be. The Wii right now is following the pimp the hardware strategy. The PS2 though I beg to differ followed the latter strategy (eventually), as does the PC (always has), and the XBox as well follows this strategy, though not to the extent of the 360.

Nintendo though follows the killer app strategy in general, I think, and killer app to Nintendo means milking their name franchises to the ground. Which, truth be told, is how Sony also operates for the most part. Xbox (like the PC) likes to work by making new franchises, which is good, and while this wasn't as apparent in the last gen it is more apparent with the 360. The PS2 though did follow this along with milking existing franchises -- the PS2 pretty much did it all.

But what does that say about the gamers who are running out and buying so many Wiis? Isn't that kinda sad. Everytime I read some new article pimping how well the Wii is doing, I think to myself, maybe its time to get a Wii. I go over EB's website and look at the games and change my mind. Right now the only game i'd get is Zelda! I guess people are assumming things will turn around, but with Nintendo that is a bad assumption to make. Like you said, all Nintendo is gonna give you really is more Mario, more Smash Brothers, more Kart games, and cheap substandard clones of PS3 and 360 games, like Godfather The Wii version! I see the excitement by Wii fans, but I don't see that excitement lasting for a very longtime unless some new blood(software) is infused into Nintendo product lines.

[DrunkenThumbmaster]

And, Slade was right once again. Can anyone ever wrong that man? I think he's flawless.



He said it there and you did it here.

Somehow, Ubisoft's strong sale translates into 360's dominance in hardware. Even though, it was never just 360 titles alone. The only 360 exclusive title mentioned in the article is GRAW2. M$ takes credit for strong sale of other Wii/PS2/PC titles too?

I mean, what's going on here? Is this the best positive spin ever?

Ok we're going to do this for the slow class here. I didn't mention MS in the Post I said 360. The dominace I'm talking about is obviously software sales. I mean it has to be sense the Wii is beating the 360 month to month in hardware.

My favorite game of all time check this out


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Originally Posted by DrunkenThumbmaster
My Top 10 not including PC games from this periond

1.Halo/Halo2
2.Burnout 3
3.Espn NFL 07
4.God of War / God of War 2 (even though I'm still at the beginging of Part 2)
5.Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
6.Chonicles of Riddick
7.Ghost Recon 2/ Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike
8.Ninja Gaiden
9.MGS 3 (this one made a strong comeback for me)
10.Resident Evil 4

So many others hell It may change next week



This needs to be edited for 2 reasons 1 I said I was at the begining of GOD of WAR 2 I was at the End the very end. And 2 GOD of WAR 2 is number 1 all time! Oh PS3 whenever you get GOD OF WAR 3 I will be there!!!!!

DTM on the wii

I honestly think once devs make a point to make good looking games the Wii will be alright. They can't have to many Excite Trucks and Minigames because then the impression will be that's all the system can do.

Sonic Rings looks surprisingly good to me. Hell it looks better than the Demo of Sonic on the 360


http://forums.videogamereview.com/showthread.php?p=95997&posted=1#post95997

You can go through my Post history I own a PSP which is Awesome what did you do with yours? I game on the PC as well.

And I've also been critical of MS and the games. I hated the end too Halo 2 I almost didn't play the first Forza because GT4 look significantly better.

Now obviously I have a preference for the Xbox platforms not denying that. But I'm no where near the evangelical madman Lastword is. I'm not nearly as bad as you nor your big buddy slade for that matter.

[slade]

Software domination but the same damn types of games driving that domination is actually bad. That may also be part of the reason that hardware sales of the console are so slow in Europe and Japan and are slowing down in the U.S.

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This guy is one of the biggest pretenders on this board. The fact that he even tries to justify his trolling is laughable.