Ubisoft just announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2022-23, related to the period between April 2022 and March 2023.
After its latest games didn't meet sales targets, Square Enix is going multiplatform but the company's track record isn't convincing.
Square Enix been multiplatform for decades, a few exclusively-deals doesn't make them any less multiplatform.
SE needs to go all in optimization. Broken PC ports won't help its case, especially with big releases like mainline Final Fantasy
It's actually simple. What doesn't inspire confidence is Square allocating their budgets on the wrong projects such as Forspoken, Avengers, Babylons Fall and Foamstars.
Square has always been multiplatform since PS3/360 days which 80 % of their games are. People kick up a fuss over PS exclusivity but not Nintendo which has more exclusive projects console exclusive from Square.
FF16 has done ok but not enough to fix the blunders that the past mistakes Square has made with some of their projects. FF7 Rebirth is unclear we'll see a PC release for sure so it's hard to say so far not as good as they would of liked.
Then again unrealistic expectations. If it weren't for Sony these games would at least had another 2 years development time. So some people need to be realistic in that regard.
Square Enix just really need to revise its expectations. Maybe consider a change in strategy on dev end as well. Multiplat will help for sure but only good games that are marketed well will sell
Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt explains how the studio name comes from a name translation, plus the background on the game title “Helldivers.”
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Ubisoft and Activision are the real life example of the saying "putting all your eggs in one basket", if Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty collapse they're gonna be in deep shit for sure.
Ubisoft needs help
Wow, just like Activision with Call of Duty.
This sounds like you want AC to be a live service platform. Well if you keep making crap like Xdefiant and The Division Heartland, you may as well just give up making a single-player open world game into a crap live service.
Who’s have though that the game from the PS3 demo disc with the white-cloaked assassin scaling a wall and knifing a Templar would eventually go on to become a crappy, useless multiplayer online-only storefront simulator with terribly-implemented RPG mechanics?
They need a lot of tailing and eavesdropping missions to capture that old AC magic...
It seems like many are taking this info and just going "big company move mean bad company" Look I'm pretty sick of games taking 4-8 years to release. AC releasing 1-2 years apart is a great spot for me. The only one releasing this year is Mirage which is a smaller game than the RPG ones.
So what are people actually complaining about? Because adding to their workforce isn't directly good or bad.
Ubi still makes other games, adding to their workforce doesn't take from those.
You can bet any of the mobile and spin-off games are skippable if you really want, so they really don't effect you in any negative way or at all.
If you don't even like AC, why are you here?