| Non Sequor said: Does Ubisoft even have any developers in France any more? I'm not sure that the people at the Montreuil-sous-Bois headquarters do anything other than count the money their studios abroad generate. |
There are still devs in France but maybe he better sended it to the department in Canada or the one in USA.
And they added a new entry on Wikipedia about Ubisoft:
Recently, after the unwrapping of titles like Prince of Persia (2008) and Beyond Good & Evil 2 at Ubidays 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the company has been flamed by members in the Ubisoft official forums for not supporting the successful Wii console. [12] A growing belief is that the company is developing casual games such as Petz, on the Wii in order to fund expensive HD games. In fact Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot even admitted that "the company's casual games business was "extremely profitable" and helped to finance the initially costly development of games for next-generation consoles"[13] Many have started to figure that "next generation consoles" may not include the Wii. Guillemot's promise of "Nintendo-Like" quality games has not been realized and in fact, there is only one release for the console that is scheduled to come out in 2008.[14] Even Beyond Good & Evil 2, whose predecessor suffered from poor sales and sold more on Wii's predecessor the Gamecube, was chosen to be developed on HD consoles despite higher development costs and the uncertainty of the game's commercial reception. Countless believe that the company will continue to make "extremely profitable" casual games on the system and toned down spinoffs such as Shaun White Snowboarding[15] (with features like free roaming and online mode absent), while the other consoles will get full-fledged games, despite the Wii being the sales leader of its generation.
