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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said Watch Dogs developer, Ubisoft Montreal, was given a much as it needed in order to make the best game possible.

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Watch Dogs developer Ubisoft Montreal is using PC as its lead platform before taking its sandbox game to PS4 and – most likely – Xbox 720.

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Rayman Legends was pushed back from an expected release today to sometime in September to allow for a multiplatform launch, but the Wii U development team isn’t sitting idle in the meantime.

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Beyond Good & Evil 2 is coming, but Ubisoft is not ready to talk about it, CEO Yves Guillemot told Kotaku. “I don’t give comments anymore on BG&E2, because I think the next time next time we communicate we have to have something new. It’s coming,” he said. The long-awaited sequel popped up earlier today on an Ubisoft staffer’s CV, but may well have been upgraded to a next-generation release in the interim.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said Sony asked publishers and developers what they wanted from the PlayStation 4 – and the plaform holder seems to have delivered.

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot feels the current console life cycle has been long enough, and hopes the same isn’t repeated with PS4 and the next Xbox console.

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Ubisoft has declared itself “satisfied” with the Wii U launch but is hoping some upcoming releases will improve the console’s sales generation capacity.

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The next game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise will feature a new setting and character, Ubisoft announced during its quarterly financial call to investors today.

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Ubisoft’s Q3 financial report is in, and it’s a positive picture for the French outfit. Top of the table is Assassin’s Creed, which has now shipped 12 million units globally. The company saw a revenue increase of 23% to €802 million for the period.

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Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot believes this console generation has lasted too long, leading to a dearth of innovation thanks to the poor performance of new properties mid-cycle.

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Ubisoft has admitted interest in some of THQ’s IPs, according to comments made by CEO Yves Guillemot to GI International.

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has expressed hopes that the Wii U will come down in price sooner rather than later – even though he feels it’s a bit of a bargain.

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Rainbow Six: Patriots is still in development despite a run of radio silence since its initial reveal. Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot has teased a big reveal for the shooter, stating that it will ‘surprise the industry’. Find out why below.

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Nintendo’s flirtation with full digital downloads seems to be turning into something of a full-on love affair, as Ubisoft joins the swelling pack of publishers pledging their support to the Wii U eShop. President Yves Guillemot has confirmed it is bringing two of its launch titles to the digital arena when it can.

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The Uplay online service will arrive on Wii U sometime after launch, according to Ubisoft, and the firm says it also plans to support the Ninendo Network in the process.

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said the firm is currently developing titles for current and next-gen systems simultaneously, and reiterated a 2013 release for Watch Dogs during a financial call to investors today.

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Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, goes into detail on the importance of cross console gaming, free-to-play, digital titles as well as how he expects the current and next gen consoles to perform.
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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has stated that the amount of players paying for F2P microstransaction content is the same as those paying for full PC titles. Guillemot also stresses that free-to-play titles are an ideal anti-piracy solution for the publisher, stating that 95% of people playing its titles aren’t playing them legally.

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It isn’t just gamers finding the wait for new console hardware excruciating, according to Ubisoft head Yves Guillemot.

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Ubisoft has released its financial report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, and thanks to a 110% increase in online sales, profits for the firm hit €37.4 million ($47.7 million) with sales hitting €1.06 billion ($1.3 billion). Online and digital sales were €80 million.

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