Topic: Graw On 360 Breaking Sales Records For Ubi. (Read 564 times)

KAGE360 · « **on:** March 17, 2006, 11:17:00 AM »

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PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in Ubisoft (UBIP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 4 percent on Friday after Europe's second-largest video games publisher said its new action game "Ghost Recon Advanced Warfigher" had record sales in its first week.

The game, launched on MS's (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) new generation XBox 360 console and shipped to stores last week, sold more than 240,000 copies in North America, Ubisoft said in a statement.

In Europe, sales of the game in France, Germany and Britain exceeded 120,000 units over just three days.

"Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter had the best ever first-week sales performance for our company and is looking like a major commercial success," Chairman Yves Guillemot said in the statement.

By 0830 GMT, Ubisoft shares had gained 4.01 percent at 36.61 euros, outperforming larger domestic peer Infogrammes (IFOE.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) whose shares gained 1.33 percent.

http://today.reuters...ISOFT-STOCK.xml

looks like the great relationship between Ubi. and MS is set to conitnue.

between the excellent sales of CoD2 for activision and now this, all of the reports from analysts about struggling with the whole next gen transition should be ignored. as long as you make a quality title worthy of the attention and the user's money, the transition shouldnt be as difficult as reported.

Rubix42 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2006, 12:35:00 PM »

Key word being quality.

I shudder to think about the thousands I have wasted on garbage games.

KAGE360 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2006, 12:46:00 PM »

in all honesty i would say the biggest contributor to a game's sale is word of mouth. games like GTA, halo, and GRAW have had a lot of attention from the gaming community prior to launch so that is sure to help.

sad thing is that not all quality titles get the recognition they deserve (kameo, Gun, King Kong, and condemned for ex.)

Deftech · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2006, 02:38:00 PM »

QUOTE(adfinder23 @ Mar 17 2006, 04:08 PM)

so which company is making Gears Of War? So I can be ready for some stock.

blasphemer!

how can one not know whos making Gears?!

for shame!

Rubix42 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2006, 02:46:00 PM »

Thanks for answering the question Deftech. . .

KAGE360 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2006, 02:52:00 PM »

Epic is making GoW while MS is publishing it, so atleast you can look forward to only paying $50 for GoW

twistedsymphony · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2006, 02:54:00 PM »

QUOTE(KAGE360 @ Mar 17 2006, 04:59 PM)

Epic is making GoW while MS is publishing it, so atleast you can look forward to only paying $50 for GoW

ooh I didn't realize MS was publishing it... Here's hoping there's a $60 LE version of the release just like PDZ

Rubix42 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2006, 02:56:00 PM »

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Mar 17 2006, 05:01 PM)

ooh I didn't realize MS was publishing it... Here's hoping there's a $60 LE version of the release just like PDZ

Here's to hoping it is 1 million times better than PDZ

Sanitarium · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2006, 07:38:00 PM »

Oww MS I didn't know M$ was publishing Gears of War. I might actually buy that one new if it's $50.

Mikeizzle · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2006, 10:52:00 PM »

Well thats pritty kick ass. See what happens when you actually make a good game

. I hope they make another one, i just beat this and i want MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

.

Master X · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2006, 11:14:00 PM »

Just got my controller today and I will be getting GRAW tommorow. Ubisoft indeed does make games that are worth my money. The Ghost Recon series kicked ass I loved all of them and I am sure that GRAW will too.

Deftech · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2006, 09:08:00 AM »

QUOTE(Rubix42 @ Mar 17 2006, 04:53 PM)

Thanks for answering the question Deftech. . .

and Shanghai? team shanghai?

what did they do?

I didnt see them mentioned once in the credits, just the other studios. Maybe mine has a different ending

I know they are doing the xbox version....

brooksie48 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2006, 11:10:00 AM »

QUOTE(Deftech @ Mar 18 2006, 10:15 AM)

and Shanghai? team shanghai?

what did they do?

I didnt see them mentioned once in the credits, just the other studios. Maybe mine has a different ending

I know they are doing the xbox version....

I swear I read they were developing the 360 version seperately from the others, and if they didn't...well that explains a couple of things.

Deftech · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2006, 11:35:00 AM »

QUOTE(brooksie48 @ Mar 18 2006, 01:17 PM)

I swear I read they were developing the 360 version seperately from the others, and if they didn't...well that explains a couple of things.

hmmm, well I honestly dont know, but Ubisoft Paris was credited for 99.999% of everything, Team Montreal was mentioned once or twice.

m_hael · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2006, 11:37:00 AM »

some perspective to this.. yes GRAW is a very good game, but as the userbase expands and early adopters get over the initial shellout for the console people are able to buy more games thus when a new game hits the streets more and more people are able to buy the games.

Over time we will start seeing numbers based on quality, right now those numbers are affected but not driven by quality.

please note - I know GRAW is a very good game (played it at work), I just don't think people should hold its success as highly as they seem to be.... pedestles are made to be broken.

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