Ubi Prez: “E3 is for US only”

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1. Anuban

   May 27th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

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   Uh … Unless I missed something Ubisoft is THIRD behind No.1 EA and No. 2 Activision in the video game publishing biz. I just wrote two college papers on Activision that got me two A’s so I think I know a little something about this topic. If Ubi did manage to overtake Activision can you please point me to a link or someplace that actually says this? Thanks.

2. James Hyde

   May 28th, 2007 at 6:37 am

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   Correction, Nintendo is the number two publisher in the U.S , Activision is 4, Sony at 4, and Take Two at 5.

   http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070108/wilson_03.shtml

3. Anuban

   May 28th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

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   At the time I was not talking about U.S. rankings … I was talking about World Wide and presently Activision is (according to Gamesutra) number 3 in the world because they slipped a notch. I reread my paper and in it I did say that for the U.S. Activision was number 2 and they are so in a way I did get part of my initial alert wrong. But I was only off by one Worldwide and was spot on about the U.S. … at any rate both Gamasutra and Activision’s own Annual report say the same thing.

   Below you will find Gamasutra’s the current list for 2006 with the 2005 rankings being in parathesis, so according to them Activision moved down one and that is not that hard to believe given the strength of the DS and the Wii. It still means that Activision is the 2nd largest 3rd party video game developer and actually I believe that was what I was getting at in my papers … now that I think about it I actually took the three console makers out of the picture because they have a built in advantage.

   Plus as I said I did go by the info listed in the Annual report which does say they are number two in the U.S. and a leader world wide. In any case Ubi is far from 2nd … you are going to have to make sure that you do better research in the future before you publish articles with incorrect information Raj, otherwise your articles will have no credibility:

   1. (1.) Electronic Arts
   2. (4.) Nintendo
   3. (2.) Activision
   4. (5.) Sony Computer Entertainment
   5. (10.) Take-Two
   6. (3.) Microsoft
   7. (8.) THQ
   8. (6.) Ubisoft
   9. (7.) Konami
   10. (9.) Sega Sammy Holdings

   And it still very impressive that only EA and Nintendo are above Activision. Not even the mighty Sony and MS have managed to overtake them yet. I think that Activision has a good chance at regaining the second spot within the next two years … but they will need to get some hot IP to stay in the race for number one.

4. Anuban

   May 28th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

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   Wow … I hadn’t even noticed but MS actually tumbled the most … down 3 spots … more than anyone else. I wonder how that happened with Gears of War and Lost Planet and Dead Rising and Oblivion doing so well this past year. Seems strange to me but I think with Halo 3 they may be able to get back to at least 4 and regain the lead they had over Sony. To think that last year MS was ahead of both Nintendo and DOny and now it has fallen behind both … not a great sign I have to say.