Breakpoint sales are so BAD, Ubisoft DELAYS every other Game | Let's Discuss
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ENTIRE QUOTE FROM UBISOFT CEO
Yves Guillemot, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, said "Over the past few years, we have
delivered many high-quality titles, built a portfolio of diversified franchises and successfully
conducted the digital transformation of our business. We have significantly grown our operations
for PC, and in Asia and esports, and have further developed our Uplay platform. And we can now
draw on a very robust back-catalog, which ended up again above our expectations in the second
quarter, including the particularly outstanding momentum of Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin’s
Creed Odyssey.
However, we have not capitalized on the potential of our latest two AAA releases. For Ghost Recon
Breakpoint, while the game’s quality appeared on track – based on E3, Gamescom, previews and
our latest internal playtests –, critical reception and sales during the game’s first weeks were very
disappointing. As we have done with past titles, we will continue to support the game and listen
to the community in order to deliver the necessary improvements.
At this stage, we have identified three main reasons behind this underperformance:
• First, it is harder to generate interest for a sequel to a Live multiplayer game, when prior
iterations benefited from years of optimization. Consequently, we need to make sure there
is more time between each iteration of Live games.
• Second, our strategy of introducing gameplay innovations in our games has had a very
positive impact on our brands. However, to win over players, these innovations need to be
perfectly implemented in order to offer an optimal experience. This has not yet been
sufficiently the case with Ghost Recon Breakpoint. While the change of formula has been
very well received by some players, with an average daily playtime per player of over three
hours, it also has been strongly rejected by a significant portion of the community.
• Finally, Ghost Recon Breakpoint did not come in with enough differentiation factors, which
prevented the game’s intrinsic qualities from standing out.
We are tackling these issues head-on and already are implementing significant changes to our
production processes. We are confident in our capacity to adapt and evolve, as we have done
successfully many times in the past.
In this overall context, we have decided to postpone the releases of Gods & Monsters, Rainbow
Six Quarantine and Watch_Dogs Legion until 2020-21. While each of these games already has a
strong identity and high potential, we want our teams to have more development time to ensure
that their respective innovations are perfectly implemented so as to deliver optimal experiences
for players. This decision will have a very significant impact on our financial results for this fiscal
year and goes against our recent successes in building a more stable development model.
However, it is in line with our strategy to maximize the future value of our brands for the longterm benefit of our employees, players and shareholders. We expect it to have a positive impact
on our financial performance as from 2020-21.
Going forward, we are ideally positioned to benefit from the industry’s strong expansion and
constant evolution. We are investing to develop our franchises and PRI, to fully tap the potential
of the mobile market, to accelerate our growth in Asia and esports, and to reap the benefits of
our brands ownership in the context of the rise of streaming and the multiplication of platforms.
These opportunities are powerful drivers for our future topline and profitability growth."
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