Munkeh111 said:
PoP 2 will be out in 2010, the same team makes AC (well there are overlaps, I think they work in the same way as Insomniac), so we will see AC 2 this year, and then PoP 2 the following year, and if you are worrying about manpower at Ubi Montreal, they have 1,800 employees! Anyway, neither a new Rainbow Six nor Ghost Recon game have been announced, but simply rumoured, and they are just plain inevitable
@ shio, I do agree with you. They have platformers and shooters covered, and while End War and HAWX were an attempt at some diversification (allbeit still under the TC brand), they did fail, but your chessmaster idea doesn't sound bad (even though I would never consider buying it!). Their disadvantage when you compare them to someone like EA is the lack of diversity, I can't think of a racer that they make, and while SWS was an expansion into sports, they do about nothing there, whereas EA are raking in the money from FIFA and Madden every year |
And it's not just about targetting different genres - It's also about exploring other types of business models. So far they have only focused on traditional business, only boxed copies. There's a huge hole that isn't being tapped: subscriptions, microtransactions, ad revenue, etc... Ubisoft is barely even looking at that.
And yeah, EA is doing what they're supposed to do: Battlefield Heroes, Battleforge, Need for Speed World Online, Warhammer Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, etc... a lot of variety there.
