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Ubisoft posts Q4 revenues

Brendan Sinclair
By Brendan Sinclair, Senior Editor

French publisher's quarterly sales sink by more than a third, but industrywide malaise allows it to increase market share.

Ubisoft has released its financial results for its fourth quarter (ended March 31, 2006), and the news is mixed for the French publisher. On the one hand, it increased its market share in the US, UK, and France by an average of 1 percent. On the other hand, its overall sales dropped by more than a third from the same quarter the year before, from 219 million euros ($277 million) to 144 million euros ($182 million).

Ubisoft attributed the gains in market share to the performance of its first three Xbox 360 games: Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, and Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII. Ghost Recon in particular sold more than 1.6 million copies for the publisher, with roughly half of them being the Xbox 360 version of the game.

In a statement accompanying the results, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stressed the importance of the publisher's establishing a foothold on the Xbox 360. "The tremendous success of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter confirms our ability to be at the forefront on new consoles," Guillemot said. "It should support Ubisoft's financial performance during the coming fiscal year, as we expect the Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PS3, and Nintendo Revolution installed base to ramp up rapidly."

For the full year, Ubisoft posted a 3 percent increase in revenues, from 532 million euros ($672 million) to 547 million euros ($691 million).

Brendan Sinclair
By Brendan Sinclair, Senior Editor

Brendan Sinclair has been a games journalist since 1999. His tastes are eclectic, though he has a definite affinity for games with arcade roots. He's Canadian, but has also been at home in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, and San Francisco.

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ultimate_zero
ultimate_zero

Ubisoft has the greatest kind of games, their very innovative, and thats one of the things thats helping them out.

XManTMG
XManTMG

Just watch them jump another 5 percent when Splinter Cell hits.

Kwiksilva
Kwiksilva

this year will be very good for them since they are developing on the wii

chrisdojo
chrisdojo

oops. maybe they'll make some $$$ if they publish crysis.

howin
howin

i wish i can have the money

blackIceJoe
blackIceJoe

Its good to see the games selling but wish they would have sold more for them.

NeoJedi
NeoJedi

Everybody's going downhill, so it's just normal that Ubisoft follows the flow.

Blazer88
Blazer88

Well as far as thier PC games are concerned they will probably now have increasing sales in the future as I think alot people liked thier games but didn't want to mess with Star Force.However since they have dropped them,.........should be new customers,.or returning of old ones.

Battta2
Battta2

Just make a new Prince of Persia and earn a lot of money.

soulknight63133
soulknight63133

Ubi and Bethesda are the only two companies I've seen that actually made true "next-gen" titles. Congrats Ubi!

Shingo
Shingo

Ya! Go Ubisoft! They are my 2nd fav game company behind the big N and *sigh* their wii

Tr4cker
Tr4cker

Fourth quarter? Isnt it the First one up until March 31st???

playwrite
playwrite

great...they have money cause they sell games. I f we must find that interesting, Nintendo made 801 million dollars last year, IN PROFIT. this is 600 million in revenue. so i don't care about this, and if i did than i would be more interested in nintendo.

Bizzar3
Bizzar3

They are on the right track...but I don't see supporting Nintendo gaining them any money... (See most or all Ubisoft games on GC)

spy_of_chaos
spy_of_chaos

[QUOTE]dont they mean nintendo wii?[QUOTE]Wii! Everyone loves that name! JUST KIDDING!

mariomaniac92
mariomaniac92

They better not think that a few games will get them anywhere, cuz 360 is not that popular.

Gmex
Gmex

well ubisoft's getting up there

vaejas
vaejas

800k copies of GRAW 360... that's a bonus profit of $8 million with the Next-Generation tax. It's like a pinball multiplier! Good show old chaps, what what.

DoubleAxe
DoubleAxe

NO !!! in our hearts its still called the Revolution

cloudstrife75
cloudstrife75

ubisoft is awesome! love their stuff they publish :D

Donkeljohn
Donkeljohn

Any new threats by EA to take them over?

xoverkillx
xoverkillx

Hmm GRAW helped them a lot I bet

nichtnicht
nichtnicht

well that sounds like.... this news is just analyst info

briguysniper1
briguysniper1

whole lota money. (closest to top ever :-) )

runstalker
runstalker

There's a version coming for Nintendo's next-gen system called "Blazing Angels: Squadrons of Wii". Har har.

jstarzyk
jstarzyk

Why not give some profit figures?

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