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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Dragonquest IV will be published by Ubisoft on New Zealand and Australia

alpha_dk on 27 June 2008
windbane said:
Have they even released a game recently? E3 isn't far away, either. Singling out one developer when most of them are acting the same way isn't very productive.

Let's look at some of the biggest publishers on the planet:

1) Nintendo obviously isn't acting like this.

2) EA is putting some real (even for hardcore players) effort into their Wii titles, from the 'Call Your Shots' feature in Madden to other titles like Skate It, etc.

3) Activision is making GH4 feature-complete on Wii.

5)THQ is giving us some interesting looking games like Deadly Creatures, de Blob, etc.

7) Sega is giving us Samba de Amigo ('nuff said)

And although not in the same league size-wise,

Capcom is giving us MM9 (although possibly not exclusive, it's obviously not shovelware), and has given us plenty to like them about already and in the future (spyborgs)

*MOST* of Ubi's competition is NOT acting like them.  *MOST* of them are giving the Wii quality games, and saying otherwise is misinformed at best.



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NJ5 on 27 June 2008

To add to alpha_dk's post, Activision is also bringing Call of Duty 5 to the Wii including multiplayer support.



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memory2zack on 27 June 2008

Dunno, maybe in Oceania Ubisoft does publish SE games, but here in Europe and in N.A. SE publish all of their games on their own. Ubisoft is just their distribution partner in most european countries, not all of them. For instance in Germany its Koch Media, in Greece Diaktis, etc... Ubisoft has no influence whether or not which SE game will be published.

This should be about DQIV, not Ubisoft´s bussiness plan.



sc94597 on 27 June 2008

@ Yushire It says distribution agreement, not publishing.



yushire on 27 June 2008

AH OK so thats different then. SORRY so whats the difference then?



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memory2zack on 27 June 2008

publisher: prints the booklet, game medium, cover and back-cover. Advertises and markets the game. His brandname is printed on the game. Ships the game units to its distributors. Earns brutto income per unit sold to retailers and pays with it the developers, distributors, marketing company and licensing fees. What´s left is the total netto income.

distributor: distributes the game to retailers and gets paid for this job from the publisher.



yushire on 27 June 2008
memory2zack said:
publisher: prints the booklet, game medium, cover and back-cover. Advertises and markets the game. His brandname is printed on the game. Ships the game units to its distributors. Earns brutto income per unit sold to retailers and pays with it the developers, distributors, marketing company and licensing fees. What´s left is the total netto income.

distributor: distributes the game to retailers and gets paid for this job from the publisher.
AH OK THANKS for the clarification but why Squeenix needs a big publisher to just distribute a game anyway?

 

 



end of core gaming days prediction:

 

E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced

 

E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

alpha_dk on 27 June 2008

They probably just don't have the connections in place to do it, and it's cheaper for them to give it to Ubi to distribute it than to make those connections themselves, since Ubi is presumably doing it for their own games anyways.



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yushire on 27 June 2008

So will ubi have a logo on DQIV before you start playing or not?



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E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

sc94597 on 27 June 2008
yushire said:
So will ubi have a logo on DQIV before you start playing or not?

No, its not their game. No logo But there will be a square enix one.