In a recent interview, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot talked about the French publisher’s future plans. It may come as a surprise to many, but they are still considering a merger with Electronic Arts, who bought a 20% stake in the company some time back. He also talked about the company’s shift into movie production, which they might be investigating with the upcoming film adaptation of Prince of Persia.
“We’re still considering,” he told Gamasutra. “The first option for us is to manage our own company and grow it. The second option is to work with the movie industry, and the third is to merge. We think the market is going to grow fast, and we can take a big share of that market, so we don’t have to change the way things are done at the moment.”
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Zac
June 11th, 2007 at 6:52 am
1No!
Anuban
June 11th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
2Even if they do this there are still some solid companies left and also their are new development houses starting up on a monthly basis. It definitely is not news I wanted to wake up to but as long as their are companies like Activision, Midway, Take Two, Sega, etc. and developers like Epic and Monolith and Bethesda and others then I am not to worried … not yet anyway. I mean people have to understand that these days the gaming business is NO different than any other Multi-billion dollar industry so people better get used to seeing more mergers and acquistions that may not appeal to them.
To expect otherwise is actually pretty naive … so I am not that surprised but until EA buys Epic I am not going to worry. This is just a part of life … I refuse to let it have any significant effect on me. I am not even going to get upset … se la vi (spelling is wrong but you get my point).
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