Ubisoft facing imminent bankruptcy in 2025. Will be bought by...

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Who will buy Ubisoft?

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I already wrote about it in other Ubi threads after digging into their financials. They're pretty much fucked already and won't have enough money to survive 2025 on their own.

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Exclusive: Ubisoft Finances Point To Potential Bankruptcy in 2025

Ubisoft is in financial trouble that could lead to bankruptcy. According to financial reports, the developer could face collapse in 2025.
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Who do you think will buy them once they hit rock bottom?

I excluded Nintendo from the poll options because I think it's highly unlikely. Not their kind of games, not their business model.
 
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I think Tencent will buy them. Would fit into their pattern.

Xbox has bought enough studios, don't think they can and want to invest that much more, also I don't think they can manage even more studios.

Sony might, but I think they're more careful now and Ubisoft is a trash fire at the moment.

In general, Ubi became an activist infested, inefficient, bloated company with big name IPs but lackluster sales. The market is tired of them and their games.

Tencent might have the ChinX balls to reform them the hard way.
 
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Insane to see. Especially given how many of their games tend to have long tails in terms of sales and even player retention with titles such as Division 2 and Rainbow Six Siege. Problem was always the sheer bloat of staff and studios. Don't they have like 17K employees?

I can definitely see Tencent picking them up, though I could actually see individual IP being worth more in a sale rather than a wholesale purchase of the Ubisoft brand. They have a lot of really strong and popular IP
 
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DonDonDonPata said:
Guessing it would be Tencent or Epic. For all the trouble MS went through when buying ActiBlizzard they wouldn't be in the running.
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I kinda struggle to see Epic stepping up. From a business and a tech perspective, don't think it makes much sense. That said, I could be a way to push their Epic Store as the place to play these high profile IPs. Didn't work out for other store fronts on PC though.
 
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So what's new in this article?

There's a conspiracy theory going around that Guillemots deliberately tanking the stock so they could buy a lot of it and go private. Don't think it's legal though.
 
Controversially, I'm going to say that Nintendo should just buy them. Ubisoft appears to like making Nintendo-themed games. If I had to wager what their most profitable games have been over the past 7 years, I'm pretty sure it's not Assassin's Creed or any of their other expensive projects. They have real potential to make evergreen titles for Nintendo platforms.
 
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Optimus said:
Controversially, I'm going to say that Nintendo should just buy them. Ubisoft appears to like making Nintendo-themed games. If I had to wager what their most profitable games have been over the past 7 years, I'm pretty sure it's not Assassin's Creed or any of their other expensive projects. They have real potential to make evergreen titles for Nintendo platforms.
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Nintendo consoles can't handle Ubisoft games.
 
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Optimus said:
Controversially, I'm going to say that Nintendo should just buy them. Ubisoft appears to like making Nintendo-themed games. If I had to wager what their most profitable games have been over the past 7 years, I'm pretty sure it's not Assassin's Creed or any of their other expensive projects. They have real potential to make evergreen titles for Nintendo platforms.
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That's just such a small part of Ubisoft though. You don't buy this huge company for some Mario vs Rabbits, Rayman, Trials etc.

Trying to turn Ubisoft around will be such a pain in the ass.
 
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HE1NZ said:
Nintendo consoles can't handle Ubisoft games.
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Sure they can. All the older Assassin's Creed games have landed on Nintendo Switch, and Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla are ripe for release on Switch 2. This purchase would print money easily.

regawdless said:
That's just such a small part of Ubisoft though. You don't buy this huge company for some Mario vs Rabbits, Rayman, Trials etc.

Trying to turn Ubisoft around will be such a pain in the ass.
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It's a small part of a company whose large part is going bankrupt. Nintendo could slow down their release schedule of huge budget games and milk them for the titles that haven't released on Switch yet.

In that same timeframe, they can reset Ubisoft's priorities. Right now, Ubisoft is basically an Assassin's Creed factory. What business do they even have making Star Wars games. Their bread and butter should include Rainbow Six and Rayman. They have a Prince of Persia IP that needs rebooting.

Nintendo would have them profitable within 2 years.
 
I think Sony if they were smart would greenlight easy remasters of their older FPS/TPS and new entries, and buy Ubisoft or controlling share so they could potentially field these games if not directly against Call of Duty/Black Ops since it would fail, but capture the attention of people who do enjoy FPS/TPS games:

Sony
Resistance Trilogy Remaster
New Resistance
Killzone Trilogy Remaster
New Killzone
SOCOM Remasters
New SOCOM
Order 1887

Bungie
Destiny 1-2 Remasters, with extensive improvements for single player and multiplayer.
Destiny 3
Marathon with extensive Single player and Multiplayer

Ubisoft
Division 1 Remaster
Division 3
Far Cry 1-6 Remasters
Far Cry 7
Remastered Splintercell
New Splintercell
Remastered Rainbow 6
New Rainbow 6
Wildlands 2

Plus Assassins Creed and Prince of Persia are big franchises despite the ACs many, many flaws. FROM working on a new Prince of Persia with free reign could be insane sick as fuck just saying.
 
Tencent seems the most likely to buy them. Shame I used to like their games but I peaced out of Assassin's Creed after Odyssey and they stopped making games for Rayman, R6 and Splinter Cell. RIP to an old friend
 
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Tencent is the only corpo right now with the financial means, and the balls to cut Ubisoft to the bone like it needs. Neither MS, Sony, or Epic have the stomach for the journos REEing at the top of their lungs about layoffs, while Tencent will give them the good 'ol Commie Surprise with a deep purging of the undesirables.
 
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I wonder if France will let TenCent acquire them.

I could see the government trying to prop them up and just close all foreign offices. Gotta keep the jobs programs going.
 
Far Cry 5 was awesome in that the messaging and propaganda the French used to skewer the USA, flipped the table on them and turned out to be the BEST Far Cry in the series.

The hand-wringing on NeoGaf when that game dropped, with people asking "what to think" about the game they were enjoying but feeling uneasy that keeping a rifle by your side is the best way to secure liberty.

The Schadenfreude from that is evergreen.
 
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It's so bizarre to me that a huge pub/dev can exist so long with me not caring to buy a single one of their games.

I did buy the newest Far Cry, for $13, but realistically I don't touch any of their games. When I imagine a capable company getting all of Ubi's IP, I don't even get excited by any possibilities bc I don't like any of the IP anyway.
 
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It's so bizarre to me that a huge pub/dev can exist so long with me not caring to buy a single one of their games.

I did buy the newest Far Cry, for $13, but realistically I don't touch any of their games. When I imagine a capable company getting all of Ubi's IP, I don't even get excited by any possibilities bc I don't like any of the IP anyway.
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Really, is it so bizarre? When was the last time any of us actually cared about an EA game?? Similarly, I haven't cared about anything from Activision Blizzard either. These are all overly bloated huge gaming entities who haven't made jack shit for me in so long I wonder how they're even still paying the bills. And I know EA is rolling in dough, but c'mon how long can they sustain that crap they are churning out??

They all reap what they sew. Churning out bad games rife with mtx and propaganda...
 
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Optimus said:
Really, is it so bizarre? When was the last time any of us actually cared about an EA game?? Similarly, I haven't cared about anything from Activision Blizzard either. These are all overly bloated huge gaming entities who haven't made jack shit for me in so long I wonder how they're even still paying the bills. And I know EA is rolling in dough, but c'mon how long can they sustain that crap they are churning out??

They all reap what they sew. Churning out bad games rife with mtx and propaganda...
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I think it's safe to say a good chunk of this forum creamed all over the Dead Space remake and/or still buy Cod.
 
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Funny to see btw. how Ubisoft games are heavily discounted on PC and have been for months now. Easily three months at this point, maybe more.
 
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Pyrate said:
I think it's safe to say a good chunk of this forum creamed all over the Dead Space remake and/or still buy Cod.
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Yep, I'm one of those with the new COD and will buy Dead Space when it hits 20 bucks for a physical copy.

Ubisoft is the only one of the big boys with games I just never care to touch. I've played a collective total of probably like 5 hours of Assasssin's Creed in my entire life lol
 
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Optimus said:
Sure they can. All the older Assassin's Creed games have landed on Nintendo Switch, and Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla are ripe for release on Switch 2. This purchase would print money easily.


It's a small part of a company whose large part is going bankrupt. Nintendo could slow down their release schedule of huge budget games and milk them for the titles that haven't released on Switch yet.

In that same timeframe, they can reset Ubisoft's priorities. Right now, Ubisoft is basically an Assassin's Creed factory. What business do they even have making Star Wars games. Their bread and butter should include Rainbow Six and Rayman. They have a Prince of Persia IP that needs rebooting.

Nintendo would have them profitable within 2 years.
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Pretty much everything you said is wrong. Last gen AC games would require downgrades even for Switch 2. That's not why people play it. The premiere digital tourism game should always look the best and be played on a big tv.

Of course if Ubisoft games were Nintendo owned you'll see the benefit of D-pad and le hardcore gamer audience turning around to suddenly worship them, but wouldn't help sales. Nintendo probably never did a game on the budget and scale of AC, never had a studio as big as Ubisoft Montreal. They wouldn't know what to do with it.
 
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Of course if Ubisoft games were Nintendo owned you'll see the benefit of D-pad and le hardcore gamer audience turning around to suddenly worship them, but wouldn't help sales.
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Where do you get this from? Nintendo fans here don't worship everything Nintendo makes. Go look at the Mario and Luigi thread, I'd say the overall opinion on the game is more negative than positive. Tears of the Kingdom wasn't heavily glorified here either, the reception also pretty 50/50 and even those who liked it are split in camps of how good it is. Game reveals and directs show a lot of lukewarm reception too, even to more popular Nintendo franchises.

The only one who unconditionally supports anything here is you with Ubisoft. They show off an AC Japan game which has all the signs of being terrible, and you are telling us how great it will be. They show off other games that look terrible and you tell us how great they will be. Once again, you are projecting on the rest of us.
 
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Rock And Roll said:
Where do you get this from? Nintendo fans here don't worship everything Nintendo makes. Go look at the Mario and Luigi thread, I'd say the overall opinion on the game is more negative than positive. Tears of the Kingdom wasn't heavily glorified here either, the reception also pretty 50/50 and even those who liked it are split in camps of how good it is. Game reveals and directs show a lot of lukewarm reception too, even to more popular Nintendo franchises.

The only one who unconditionally supports anything here is you with Ubisoft. They show off an AC Japan game which has all the signs of being terrible, and you are telling us how great it will be. They show off other games that look terrible and you tell us how great they will be. Once again, you are projecting on the rest of us.
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You might criticize an occasional Nintendo game, but you give them the benefit of a doubt. Not with Ubisoft. Concept of being proud of never playing Ubisoft games (like you see in this thread) doesn't exist with Nintendo games either.

Btw I never said Shadows will be great. Just said to wait and see.
 
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