“Ubisoft wants to put its biggest licenses in new hands”

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2023-06-15 08:55:09

Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft. Ubisoft

While Ubisoft is coming out of a difficult year, its CEO explains his strategy of tightening up his catalog on franchises that will be available on all screens. He also looks back on the genesis of the game Star Wars Outlaws.

Spectacular games from the blockbusters Avatar and Star Wars, the return this fall of the star franchise Assassin’s Creed, the dusting off of the Prince of Persia license in early 2024… the publisher Ubisoft presented on Monday during its conference release a catalog of high-calibre productions. A breath of fresh air after two years marked by a low number of releases, delays or cancellation of productions, commercial failures, but also 500 million euros in losses for the 2022 financial year alone and a division by three of the stock market price of the French video game champion, today valued at 3.3 billion euros.

«We wanted to give our teams enough time to successfully complete their projects.“, after the Covid crisis disrupted production processes, explains to Le Figaro Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft. While Invest Securities analysts hailed a “reassuring presentation», TP Icap Midcap evokes «champagne years

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