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PS4 And XB1 To Sell 30 Millions By March 2015, says Ubisoft

Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot shared the company's projection on next gen consoles: they expect them to have sold 30 million units by March 2015.

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Aurenar3724d ago

Reach 30 million units sold is difficult but not impossible, if I look at the pace of sales. I hope they all stop developing for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, so that they can devote all energies to the new hardware of the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

kaiserfranz3724d ago

Yeah, I'm sick of cross-generation titles as well.

They are surely slowing the technology progress right now.

miyamoto3724d ago (Edited 3724d ago )

Hold your horses!

I think what developers do is make high res assets for PS4 and PC then downgrade them games for PS3. Naughty Dog made the Uncharted and The Last of Us games that way.

I don't believe last gen versions slowdown game development. Its just time, money & manpower consuming to port other versions. And there are development houses specifically there for this kind of job like BluePoint Games and Backbone Entertainment.

OT

30 million is realistic & I have reason to believe PS4 alone can sell 15 million units in 2014 & 2015 each depending on how Sony can ramp up production speeds because the PS4 sales are just limited by Sony's ability to make more PS4s because of its dire financial situation. If Sony can loan some money to quicken & double up PS4 production then its all for the better of the game industry.

Rossello3724d ago

30 millions...damn...thats a whole lot of sheeps!!!!

LordMaim3724d ago (Edited 3724d ago )

They mean 30 million consoles in total between the PS4 and Xbox One. That's not an unreasonable goal, especially once the 4Q 2014 games are released.

GordonKnight3724d ago

Yeah and if you throw in the Wii U. they're more than half way there.

tuglu_pati3724d ago

I think PS4 could achieve this milestone, Xbox One not so much if it keep selling how is selling.

nowitzki20043724d ago

I might be getting one once they drop kinect and bundle a game for 399. Still will be great games for it, and wii u as well but that I will not be getting unless zelda gets released and reviews are thru the roof.

Zelda for me is Nintendos best franchise.

tuglu_pati3724d ago

Agree. I love Zelda franchise but i haven't own a nintendo console since the Game Cube. Maybe this time i will, who knows, i just cant find the time to game on three consoles anymore and there are plenty of games coming for PS4 and XBO in the near future.

Sitdown3724d ago (Edited 3724d ago )

Who cares that the article said "combined", it had Xbox one in the title, so I must do my job and bash it. ;-) but anyhow.... You are correct, given the current rate.

creatchee3724d ago

@Aurenar

I can't see them completely shutting down development on PS360 while there are still so many people who haven't gone next-gen at this point. However, making games designed for next-gen and then downported to PS360 (if possible) is better than going for some kind of parity-based middle ground by starting with the older consoles and working up.

kneon3724d ago

The ps4 should be close to 20 million by then, so the xb1 just has to do about 6 million between now and march.

FITgamer3724d ago

Seems plausible, 18.5 million PS4 to 11.5 million Xbox One. If the discrepancy in sales doesn't shift.

sebzhd3724d ago

20 millions PS4, 10 millions xone.

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incendy353724d ago

Definitely possible, almost all consoles sales come in the holiday quarter. Depends on what games they have coming out to push those holidays though. Looks like both Halo 5 and Uncharted will be 2015 releases.

HollowedSoul143724d ago

haha just maybe ps4 and that's a big maybe but definitely not the xbox one. ms would have too magically sell over 2 million xbones a month to reach 30 million by march 2015. just ridiculous.

incendy353724d ago

He is talking about combined sales. Not individual sales.

HollowedSoul143724d ago (Edited 3724d ago )

opps my bad.....well this article is a waste of time anyways, such a vague and pointless statement. pointlessly neutral. when we all know ps4 will probably sell 20 million or more of that 30 million.

chrissx3724d ago (Edited 3724d ago )

Only Ps4 has the slight possibility of reaching those figures by 2015 ending. Would be a super achievement if it manages to ever happen

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OtterX2d ago

For me, these Mario + Rabbids games were the best thing Ubisoft has developed in recent years. I'd hate to see Ubisoft drive the series into the ground like their other properties, so I think 2 games are enough. Maybe 1 more.

Inverno2d ago

They can't ruin it because Ninty will send their ninjas to destroy all traces of it. If not for that you can bet that spinoff series would've been milked dry by now.

XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Good luck in your future endeavors

Hotpot2d ago

Thank you for Mario + Rabbids series, I quite enjoyed it

Einhander19722d ago

Great games, I have wanted Sony to copy these games with their own mascots for years.

Michiel19891d 17h ago

not cinematic or 3rd person enough for Sony

DefaultComment2d ago

I think Nintendo has to hire this guy, I mean the fact that miuamoto himself said to him that he is impressed with this work, speaks volumes. Th possibility on having Mario on Soliani's hand could be incredible and quite possibly a new era for Mario games.

OtterX2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Yea, these games didn't even feel Ubisoft at all. This felt very authentic Nintendo. This guy's direction is obviously stellar, and Ubisoft somehow managed to not kill it with microtransactions and repetitive, boring tasks.

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Ubisoft Not Worried About GTA 6: Other Games Out During GTA's Past Releases Do Really Well

Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot isn't worried about about GTA 6 and states that from their experience, games available during a GTA launch do well.

Hofstaderman3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Brave words.... GTA V has done well since 2013 to date. 11 years, Yves.

RiseNShine3d ago

Old man, now that it's even trendy, it's time to step down, Ubisoft is looking worse than ever.

Inverno3d ago

You've not had to worry about a GTA game being released for over a decade bro. There are games bigger than what Ubi shites out that avoid releasing around the time of GTA, that's how massive GTA is.

Demetrius3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I if I were other devs I wouldn't worry neither, especially since down the line rockstar will abandon offline support and fully focus on online only bs. Hopefully Gta 6 is made with plenty of depth and not just gorgeous graphics, come on rockstar come back and show how open world games should be.

DarXyde2d ago

Rockstar putting out a new GTA or Red Dead Redemption is like Kendrick Lamar putting out a new album: it doesn't happen often.

... But when it does, it's an industry-stopping event where you'll enjoy it and go through it time and again to really peel back the layers of the experience, coming away with new perceptions each time.

Ubisoft is known for prolific, cookie cutter slop. Which I would probably compare to Drake post-NWtS.

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Ubisoft Teams Up With Double Jump Tokyo To Work On Its NFT Multiplayer RPG

It appears that Ubisoft is still pursuing NFTs. It has partnered with Double Jump Tokyo to work on an NFT multiplayer RPG project.

-Foxtrot20d ago

NFT? Lmao

It’s over Ubisoft where you guys been, Jesus.

Smok9119d ago

Well you look at how many games are in development with NFT’s currently you can see they’re preparing for the next bull-run this Fall.

porkChop20d ago

Man, I haven't even heard anyone mention NFTs in ages. NFTs are dead. The Guillemot family just keep finding ways to damage their business. They need to go.

gold_drake19d ago

big eyeroll moment

gamers: "hey we hate nfts"

Ubisoft: "oh u really really like NFTs u say?"

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