Posts Tagged ‘yves guillemot’
Ubisoft to go head-to-head with piracy this year
Piracy has been an issue for a long time. Even before Napster was made mainstream people were recording songs off the radio and selling bootleg copies. Well, the game industry is no different and one company in particular has been hurtin’ especially bad; Ubisoft.
It seems that the publisher is so fed up with piracy that they have plans to combat the issue with their own firepower. Yves Guillemot, head of Ubisoft, speaks of the piracy problem:
“Altogether on console, the piracy is low. On the PC the piracy is quite a lot. We are working on a tool that would allow us to decrease that on the PC starting next year and probably one game this year.”
So what do they have cookin’ over at Ubisoft? Let’s hope they aren’t getting ideas from EA as we saw how well that was recieved with Spore.
Next gen games will cost $60 million dollars to make?
Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, has recently predicted that games for the next generation of video consoles will cost upwards of $60 million to make.
Now, there is no word on when Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo will release their next generation consoles but Guillemot says since playing next gen games will be like playing one of today’s CGI movies its no wonder that the cost will be so high.
To put this into perspective, games for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 cost between $20 million and $30 million to make with the Wii costing much less. With games currently priced at $50 and $60 is it safe to assume games of next generation will cost $100 and $120? Let’s hope not but it would make sense if Guillemot’s predictions prove true.
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Next gen consoles coming sooner than we think, says Ubisoft
Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot said in a recent interview with CNBC that the next gen systems from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony may not be as far away as we think, despite both Microsoft and Sony touting ten year life spans of the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Guillemot also said that with the increased power of the new system, games will also cost a lot more to develop, upwards of $60 million per AAA title. He said that while things like “Porject Natal” might increase the lifespan, gamers are always in need of more and more powerful systems and better technology, and with the possible competition from the upcoming PC streaming game service OnLive, the next gen consoles might be not as far away as we think.
Ubi CEO Promises Music Game
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot promised yet another music game to the world, though it will be “different enough not to be considered ‘me too’.”
He talked about the rapid expansion of music games following the success of the Guitar Hero franchise, noting that it could become cluttered with clones.
"The games do like $1 billion in revenue … People will still be interested in those kinds of games; maybe there will be more people. And doing a "me too" is dangerous," he said.
As for what the publisher has up its sleeves is still a secret. However, he does reveal that they have two projects in development – one with peripherals and the other without.