Thursday, July 18th 2019
PC Beats PS4 as Ubisoft's Most Lucrative Platform
Ubisoft posted its FY2019-20 financial report recently, and made a very interesting disclosure: PC has surpassed PlayStation 4 to become Ubisoft's most revenue-generating platform. For the quarter ending June 2019, PC accounted for 34 percent of Ubisoft's "net bookings" (a unit of sale of a product or service). This figure stood at 24 percent last year. With PC at 34 percent, PlayStation 4 takes the second spot at 31 percent, Xbox One at 18 percent, and Switch at 5 percent.
The surge in revenues from PC are attributed to "Anno 1800" and the UPlay application that rivals Steam in providing direct sales, DRM, updates, and social networking for gamers. "The 34 percent was pushed by Anno, which is a PC-specific game, but even with that launch, we had a very good performance on PC overall," said CEO Yves Guillemot, in the post-results investors call. "Anno 1800" is distributed both on UPlay and Epic Games Store. Ubisoft will be pushing out two expansion packs for "Anno 1800" this year.
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The surge in revenues from PC are attributed to "Anno 1800" and the UPlay application that rivals Steam in providing direct sales, DRM, updates, and social networking for gamers. "The 34 percent was pushed by Anno, which is a PC-specific game, but even with that launch, we had a very good performance on PC overall," said CEO Yves Guillemot, in the post-results investors call. "Anno 1800" is distributed both on UPlay and Epic Games Store. Ubisoft will be pushing out two expansion packs for "Anno 1800" this year.
27 Comments on PC Beats PS4 as Ubisoft's Most Lucrative Platform
Ubisoft started having good sale discounts, and providing games people want, and less invasive DRM. all wins. and the Uplay client is very smooth and causes 0 issues in my experience.
:)
And...let’s get sad/mad about news that helps counter the “PC gaming is dying/declining” people. :rolleyes:
The real message here is 'exclusives work' and 'good content sells'. Not really that new ;)
Still need to take a look at Anno, totally went under my radar because previous installments were rather boring rather quickly.
As for the store, I´m not a fan of ubi, I would prefer everything on the same store, but it is what it is, I just stop all those stores from starting with Windows and it´s fine, no unecessary ram usage or background stuff.
It gives a lot of Anno 1404 vibes, a fan favorite, so it's no wonder the game is selling so well!
This article could have been titled "Introverts choice of gaming platforms excels as years social season begins"... Lol
Enjoy it.