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MaxwellGT2000 on 01 December 2009
heruamon said:
^^^ no games released, but they are spending quite a bit of dough.

That happens when you're developing games and not releasing them yet, thats the main reason Square has lost money, spending a butt load for a few games and they don't release till after some reports come in. 

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I'm wondering what is the position of the people discussing these sales from Ubisoft, and if they are in a qualified position to make accurate assessments on the business practices.



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jarrod on 01 December 2009

Insulting shovelware bombs, news at 11. Make something worth buying Ubi and Wii owners (*shock* *awe*) will buy it. Hell, they'll even buy stuff not really worth buying from you if the right carrots are dangled (Red Steel, Rabbids, NMH).



heruamon on 01 December 2009
MaxwellGT2000 said:
heruamon said:
^^^ no games released, but they are spending quite a bit of dough.

That happens when you're developing games and not releasing them yet, thats the main reason Square has lost money, spending a butt load for a few games and they don't release till after some reports come in. 

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I'm wondering what is the position of the people discussing these sales from Ubisoft, and if they are in a qualified position to make accurate assessments on the business practices.

Well, I don't know the internatl specifics of Ubisoft's operations, but in general from a coporate sense, you want to stagger releases to maintian a positive cash flow...



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Avinash_Tyagi on 01 December 2009

Red Steel 2 is imo the last chance for Ubi on Wii, it better be good and have a ton of marketing



 

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dib8rman on 02 December 2009

It's simple really, the blame is because you need Wii.

See, it's simple, make Wii games to get free money to make big budget HD games and these games only see return if they are perfect for hardcorerers.



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makingmusic476 on 02 December 2009

People like to mock Ubisoft, but they're one of the few third party devs trying making a real effort on the Wii. Granted, they've released a lot of Imagine games and other crap, but they've also seen great success with the Rayman series, they're doing their best to make Red Steel 2 the success the first one should've been, and they had the balls to publish No More Heroes.

Aside from Sega and Capcom, I can't think of any major third party publisher that has done more for the Wii than Ubisoft.