Rocky Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Ubisoft unveils its 2005-2006 product catalog and adds to its financial prospects Paris, France – March 16, 2005 – Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading video game publishers, is pleased to announce its product catalog for fiscal year 2005-2006 (ending March 31, 2006) and provide additional information on its financial prospects. First semester: four major launches, including Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Lockdown™ In light of strong sales for titles launched over the past few months as well as the high number of orders placed for blockbusters scheduled to hit the market by the close of fiscal year 2004-2005 (on March 31st), Ubisoft management has decided to release Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Lockdown™ in the first half of fiscal year 2005-2006, rather than in March 2005. This title, which is ready for launch, will thus boost the beginning of fiscal year 2005-2006 with estimated sales of 1.5 to 2 million units. In addition to Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Lockdown™, the first six months will see the release of three other major titles: Far Cry Instincts™ on consoles, Star Wars®: Revenge of the Sith™ for portable consoles and 187 Ride or Die™, a new brand in the urban street-racing segment. Third quarter: Peter Jackson’s King Kong and Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30TM will join Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® and Prince of Persia® for an explosive holiday season While Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® and Prince of Persia® will attempt to break the sales records achieved during the 2004 holiday season, Peter Jackson’s King Kong is clearly shaping up to be one of the season’s major blockbusters. These titles will be supplemented by a new chapter of Brothers In Arms, which has, in March, established itself as the benchmark brand in the World War II shooting-game segment. Fourth quarter: new adventures for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® and three new brands With Killing Day (working title), an FPS specifically designed for next-generation consoles, Ubisoft plans to demonstrate once again its technological lead and highlight the capabilities of the new consoles. The group will also mark its entry into the sports segment with a basketball game (And 1™) and reinforce its presence in the strategy segment with two games under the Might & Magic brand. 32 products will be launched in total during fiscal year 2005-2006, including three for Nintendo DS™, five for Sony’s new PlayStation® Portable console (PSP™) and four for the new next-generation console from Microsoft. Revised prospects for fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 Taking into account the postponement of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Lockdown™, Ubisoft should register sales over €215 million for the fourth quarter of 2004-2005 while maintaining an annual operating income objective of €40-45 million according to French accounting standards and €38-43 million in pro-forma figures. Indeed the high volume of sales for recent titles will generate additional gross margin that should fully compensate this delay. Net profit excluding extraordinary items (before amortization of goodwill) should amount to €18-22 million according to French accounting standards and €17-21 million in pro-forma figures. Available net cash flow before acquisition expenditures should equal €30 million, as opposed to the +€10 million initially projected. For fiscal year 2005-2006, given the quality of its game portfolio, Ubisoft’s previously stated objectives remain unchanged: - 12% increase in sales at constant exchange rates. - Operating income of more than €55 million according to French accounting standards. As a result of these projections and the seasonal nature of sales, Ubisoft is expecting a net profit excluding extraordinary items (before amortization of goodwill and business assets) of over €28 million according to French accounting standards and available net cash flow before acquisition expenditures of more than €40 million. “Ubisoft is ending 2004-2005 with outstanding results thanks to the successful launches of the Brothers in Arms brand, which has become the undisputed benchmark in its category in just one installment, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell®, which has received rave reviews. For the first time in the video game industry, the Official Xbox® Magazine in the United States awarded a score of 9.9/10 to the blockbuster Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos TheoryTM. This rating, which recognizes a strategy based on quality and creativity, allows us to reaffirm our studios’ standing among the best in the world,” declared Yves Guillemot, president and CEO of Ubisoft. “Fiscal year 2005-2006 should turn out to be another record year right from the first quarter, with major product launches, an even richer game portfolio and an outlook of strong growth and increased profitability. Ubisoft is once again proving its ability to win market share and create value.” Unfortunately this press release is extremely vague about GR2 - what do you guys make of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobaka Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Maybe they're just going to re-release GR1 (note it doesn't say GR2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swartsz Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 or it could be the Nintendo release of GR2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silent_op Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 (edited) My opinion is, if we don't see GR2 pc version (or news) at E3 , then they screwed us. Gamestop stores in NYC (only location I checked) has GR2 pc version set to release in May 2005. If that is true then it will have to happen directly after E3. I don't think they would release GR2 pc without first showing it off at E3. silent_op Edited March 17, 2005 by silent_op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixpence Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 X-Mas 2005 ? This give the Modders more Time to release their Work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stig Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Hooray Something else for us to talk about instead of the usual why is there no news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZJJ Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 I've been working for the past couple of weeks to get word on the current status of GR2 for PC and the existance of GR3.... to no avail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorren Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 My opinion is, if we don't see GR2 pc version (or news) at E3 , then they srewed us. I totally agree. We have all been patient, but their continued silence is frustrating. Now, I'm no game developer or anything, but it seems like its taking quite some time to release a port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYR_32 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Its not a port....*sigh*.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubaman3D Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 ugg, I'm over this whole situation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougar74 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Bluesnews had this on its front page. The link to here http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=7465 states at the bottom that is is Ghost Recon 3 they are talking about, not 2. What this means for 2 I don't know. Would they really release a sequel six months after they release 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRT Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 ugg, I'm over this whole situation... ← im with ya..lets go hijack the UBI building and demand info..then walk out like nothing happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtz Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 "Third quarter: Peter Jackson’s King Kong and Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30TM will join Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® and Prince of Persia® for an explosive holiday season.." This is hard to fathom because BIA for PC is already released, unless they are referring to the BIA Market Garden add on. If GR 2 keeps to the June release, then Dec would be right for a mission pack expansion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougar74 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Looking at the Products list at the end of the press release shows GR3 for all platforms to release in Q2 of FY 05-06. Is this Spring 06? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roselan Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 In the French gaming Press, they are speaking of ghost recon 3, but there is no word on gr2. ubi can't suxor that much, can't they? can't they? DEATH TO UBI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougar74 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 (edited) Is this Spring 06? Love qouting myself.... Guess not since the FY for UBI ends in March, so that seems to put GR3 on about June-August. That can't be right, but it is UBI's own press release. Edited March 17, 2005 by cougar74 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_1 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Ubisoft is once again proving its ability to win market share and create value.” Unfortunately this press release is extremely vague about GR2 - what do you guys make of it? ← I notice they make no comment about their customer relations, This is a farce of Monty Python proportions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 The only thing I can clarify is the quarter timings.. As for the quarters...this release refers to our next financial year, starting begining of April. The quarters refer to the 3 month periods from then onwards: April - June July - Sept Oct - Dec Jan-Mar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 (edited) Frankly I am perplexed. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=7465 Q2 FY05-06 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 3 - GameCubeTM Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 3 - PC Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 3 - Playstation®2 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 3 - Xbox® Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 3 - next generation consoles How on earth can they announce GR3 (yes three) for the PC when they have not even announced GR2? Unless they have adopted the Palm Computing numbering system and they skip numbers Edited March 17, 2005 by Rocky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_1 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 ROFLMAOPIMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYR_32 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 I don't see how a GR3 could even be finished in time for July-Sept, an expansion or something yeah, but not a totally new game Mondo bizaro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 Moving this discussion to the PC GR2 forum.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 I don't see how a GR3 could even be finished in time for July-Sept, an expansion or something yeah, but not a totally new game Mondo bizaro. ← I think they mean July 2006, but who knows. Right now I'm off to find some paracetamol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYR_32 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Going by UBI's calander, next month start Q1 05-06, so this coming July is Q2 05-06. I just hope the people who made the press release screwed up and that Xbox mission pack is really GR2 PC haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suli Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 lol this is funny, i wonder if it was just a typo. well at least its new news, odd but new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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