Ubisoft sales talk – Additional Shaun White titles coming, more
– 14 percent sales increase for fiscal 2008
– “a continued strong showing” for Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party and Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
– Ubisoft’s fourth quarter sales: $292.52 million
– full year result: $1.5 billion
– Petz and Imagine series both sold over a million
– Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party saw sales 50% higher than the previous installment
– 1,300 employees added over the last year
– “Our goal is to internalize more and more of the development of our projects to better control development processes and quality, so we will have less third party and more internal projects.” – Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot
– “You can expect more Shaun White in the future.” – Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot
– Ubisoft has a ’soon to be announced’ title that will ship this holiday season
– Ubisoft also has an unnamed sports title in the works
“We have adapted our strategy toward bigger games with higher quality… more investment, but in the end it will reduce risk and increase each game’s potential.” – Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot
– “We need to get ready for the future generation of consoles. In the next few years, there will be new home and handheld consoles, and if you don’t invest… you will not be able to cope with both [the existing and new generation consoles].” – Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot
