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Ryuu96 on 11 January 2023
  • Allowing Unions.
  • Unlimited Time Off.

Really making their company a very desirable place to work at.

*Don't think it will apply to Zenimax though, some weird stuff about Zenimax having different rules to Microsoft as a whole.

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shikamaru317 on 11 January 2023

Xbox is taking down Playstation's Global dominance one country at a time xD



trunkswd on 11 January 2023
shikamaru317 said:

Xbox is taking down Playstation's Global dominance one country at a time xD

Best-selling console when? December? 2022? He really should clarify. 



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G2ThaUNiT on 11 January 2023
trunkswd said:
shikamaru317 said:

Xbox is taking down Playstation's Global dominance one country at a time xD

Best-selling console when? December? 2022? He really should clarify. 

This kind of vague sales information must bug you to hell



Ryuu96 on 11 January 2023
shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:

Ubisoft is completely collapsing.

Yeah, it is sad to see. 7 unannounced games cancelled in 6 months (4 in July, 3 in January). Skull & Bones delayed yet again (though this time only from March to Q2). They claim they are cancelling these 7 unannounced games to focus on their core series and make them larger sources of revenue (presumably those Core series would be Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Tom Clancy, and maybe Watch Dogs). I hope it works out for them, I'd really hate to see them get acquired by Netease or Tencent, as I don't trust the Chinese at all, and Sony would be even worse as they would make most of their games exclusive to PS. Embracer meanwhile probably wouldn't be allowed to acquire them, as Embracer already has 132 game studios and 17,500 employees, and acquiring Ubisoft would bring them up to 184 studios and nearly 38,000 employees, not sure if the regulators would like the idea of the fate of 38,000 game developers and publishers resting in the hands of a single company. So that doesn't exactly leave anybody good to acquire Ubisoft. Xbox wouldn't be allowed to unless they abandon ABK first.

Management/Leadership brought it on themselves, I once was a big fan of Ubisoft but not so much anymore, I feel sorry for the employees, I think Yves has got to go to turn this company around. Pretty crazy to see that even Mario + Rabbids underperformed, it feels like the general public are just tired of Ubisoft, even Ubisoft's own employees seem sick of the company.

They've gone from a $12bn company to a $3.3bn company...Incredible drop...The sharks are probably circling the company. They're now worth less than Square Enix, Capcom and almost worth as much as Sega, Avatar can't come soon enough for them (and AC Mirage). Skull & Bones is going to completely bomb.

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trunkswd on 11 January 2023
gtotheunit91 said:
trunkswd said:

Best-selling console when? December? 2022? He really should clarify. 

This kind of vague sales information must bug you to hell

Tell me about it. Though the way our estimates were set up long before I did them has some countries listed separately and others combined. We have US and Canada, then all of Latin America for the rest of the Americas. Europe has UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, Nordic, Benelux, and OEurope. There is also Japan, Oceania, MEA, and Asia.



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube. Follow me on Twitter, Bluesky, and Threads.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

Ryuu96 on 11 January 2023


shikamaru317 on 11 January 2023
trunkswd said:
shikamaru317 said:

Xbox is taking down Playstation's Global dominance one country at a time xD

Best-selling console when? December? 2022? He really should clarify. 

I assumed he meant life to date, but I don't know for sure, you better tweet him and ask for clarification xD



shikamaru317 on 11 January 2023
Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, it is sad to see. 7 unannounced games cancelled in 6 months (4 in July, 3 in January). Skull & Bones delayed yet again (though this time only from March to Q2). They claim they are cancelling these 7 unannounced games to focus on their core series and make them larger sources of revenue (presumably those Core series would be Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Tom Clancy, and maybe Watch Dogs). I hope it works out for them, I'd really hate to see them get acquired by Netease or Tencent, as I don't trust the Chinese at all, and Sony would be even worse as they would make most of their games exclusive to PS. Embracer meanwhile probably wouldn't be allowed to acquire them, as Embracer already has 132 game studios and 17,500 employees, and acquiring Ubisoft would bring them up to 184 studios and nearly 38,000 employees, not sure if the regulators would like the idea of the fate of 38,000 game developers and publishers resting in the hands of a single company. So that doesn't exactly leave anybody good to acquire Ubisoft. Xbox wouldn't be allowed to unless they abandon ABK first.

Management/Leadership brought it on themselves, I once was a big fan of Ubisoft but not so much anymore, I feel sorry for the employees, I think Yves has got to go to turn this company around. Pretty crazy to see that even Mario + Rabbids underperformed, it feels like the general public are just tired of Ubisoft, even Ubisoft's own employees seem sick of the company.

They've gone from a $12bn company to a $3.3bn company...Incredible drop...The sharks are probably circling the company. They're now worth less than Square Enix, Capcom and almost worth as much as Sega, Avatar can't come soon enough for them (and AC Mirage). Skull & Bones is going to completely bomb.

Mirage may end up releasing before Skull and Bones now, last I heard Mirage was a TBA Q2 release. Avatar won't release until Q4, by that point Tencent or Netease will probably have already acquired a controlling interest in them sadly.



shikamaru317 on 11 January 2023
Ryuu96 said:

Tencent was interested last I heard, will probably end up selling to them, at least a 51% controlling interest.