The leadership of Ubisoft publisher also talked about the Google Stadia development costs, as well as the Epic Games Store.

„The good start from Ghost Recon: Wildlands in the first quarter is, of course, good news. It doesn’t change what we anticipate for Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. We believe Breakpoint will be stronger than Wildlands on the PRI side overall why because it’s coming with PvP from the very beginning, while it was not the case for Wildlands. So we can have a stronger fan base that we can build upon from Breakpoint and we will come with a two-year post-launch program that would be even bigger than on Wildlands. So that we are busy talking of stronger PRI for Breakpoint. Then, of course, it’s good to see that Wildlands continues to do well. On Q4, yes, it’s good news that Cyberpunk is not in the quarter but we will stay cautious on this. We stick to your assumption that we might have a strong potential competition in Q4. The key point for us was really to have a fantastic release with Wildlands at Q3 and that’s what we achieved, we believe that our guidance across our games in Q4 is a good reflection of all the potential of the games and the potentially strong competition there,” Frédérick Duguet, Ubisoft’s CFO, said about Ghost Recon: Breakpoint – they are cautious of Cyberpunk 2077‘s May launch (which is in the first quarter of the next fiscal year), but they have higher expectations than with Wildlands.

In the Q1 investors call, Ubisoft also mentioned the Google Stadia: „Yes, the cost — the extra cost to put to make sure the games work well on Stadia is not that high. It’s part now of our pipelines and we have a good relationship with Stadia to make sure it is profitable for us,” Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft’s CEO, said. „On the platform commission, we will let Google talk about. What we can just say is that the financial equation is good for us,” Duguet added. The games that will be in the Stadia launch line-up are The Crew 2, Trials Rising, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Just Dance 2020, The Division 2, and Ghost Recon Breakpoint.

They also said their relationship is better with the Epic Games Store than with Steam. „We can’t give much information on that because we have been with them for a short time now. What we can say is we’re working very well hand-in-hand to make sure we can grow the sales directly now between our Uplay Store which is doing extremely well and Epic Store that is growing step-by-step. So overall when you take Uplay and Epic Store, we are very happy with what we are achieving,” Guillemot said. „And we did well on Anno 1800 on Epic Store, but the key point here is really that we continue to have very strong momentum on Uplay,” Duguet added.

Source: WCCFTech