Ubisoft Reports $117M Loss On Sales Drops, Catalog Discounting

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Yakuzaice said:

libellule said:
Wii market instability ...

it is like saying that blockbuster game ala AC2 are supported by their own sales and not, as a lot have said, by the massive amount of casual games on Wii that allowed the developpement of HD project for the PS3-360

what do you think ?

You might have a point for something like Wheelman or Call of Juarez, but do you really think AC/AC2 won't make money on their own?  They really haven't put out many big budget HD games, or that many HD games in general.

Ubisoft has claimed that there were 450 people working on Assassin's Creed 2... Add advertising costs and stuff like that, I could see how they would make little or no profit.

If you use the (often correct, apparently) estimate of $100,000 per dev/year (all costs not just salary), that's $45 million per year in development alone.