IGN : Disney was convinced to let Ubisoft Massive make an open world Star Wars game after its first meeting with the developer – a meeting which was actually to discuss the Avatar game, Frontiers of Pandora.
Ubisoft just announced its financial results for Q3 of the fiscal year 2023-2024 and confirmed a release window for Assassin’s Creed Codename Red, on top of a lot more information about the performance of its major games.
6.9 million digital and physical games were sold in the UK during December, an increase of 2% over the same period in 2022.
Just saw on the Sony CES that for the month of December they have 123 million monthly users on their platform.
Sonys not slowing down, no brakes on this train.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Did I do it right? That’s what all the cool kids say in the comments, right?
We know ps5 pounded XBOX in the UK and Europe. I want to see the numbers for the US where the series X received a 150 Dollar discount. Thats going to be very telling.
The discounts were so steep it would only seem appropriate if the Xbox was the best selling console. Even if it didn't one hopes that at the very least it is up YoY. Regardless of its place in the December totals, the most important metric will be where it is in respect to last holiday. I think overall for 2023, Xbox will be down YoY just based off of November.
TMG writers:
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora features a familiar open-world formula that is a perfect match for this adventure. I found myself itching to explore what’s beyond all those floating rocks. But if you’re not on board with how Ubisoft does open-world games, then you’ll be struggling with half of the game.
I'm sure this game will be fine but on the grand stage, why the hell did Disney invest into Avatar? It's not that good.
Ubisoft is sure to do a copy/paste from Farcry games and add in the Ubi Formua.
Maybe judge Ubisoft on what they've made, not about what they can bullshit you in a meeting.
I don't like companies like Ubisoft getting to make a Star Wars game. It's a series you can be so creative with, but these big AAA companies don't have much creativity these days. It's basically the same copy paste games with a different skin.