Ubisoft
-reports first-quarter 2012-13 sales
-First-quarter sales: €131 million
-Targets for full-year 2012-13 confirmed
-New syndicated loan agreement signed
Paris, July 19, 2012 – Today, Ubisoft released its sales figures for the fiscal quarter
ended June 30, 2012.
Sales
Sales for the first quarter of 2012-13 came to €131 million, up 27.2% (or 17.5% at
constant exchange rates) compared with the €103 million recorded for the same period
of 2011-12.
First-quarter sales were higher than the guidance of approximately €115 million issued
when Ubisoft released its full-year results for 2011-12. The quarter saw the following:
-Higher-than-expected sales of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier
®, which
was the best-selling console game in the US for May and June, both in unit and
value terms.
-A 41% decline in back-catalog sales to €39 million, due to industry wide lower
retail back-catalog sales, although this contraction was partly offset by growth in
online back-catalog sales.
-Continued strong momentum for the Online segment, with sales up 112% to
€27 million. This performance was primarily driven by our Free-to-Play titles and
by the success of Trials Evolution, which turned in record first-day sales on XBLA.
Yves Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer, stated "With 335 nominations and more than
160 awards at E3 2012, Ubisoft reaped the rewards of its pro-active strategy in the Core
segment and demonstrated its strong comeback in this category. Assassin's Creed 3 won
numerous Game of the Show awards, Far Cry 3 and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist
made a big impression at the event, and our two new brands Watchdogs and ZombiU set
social networks alight. In the Casual segment, Just Dance 4 is expected to be another
major hit, thanks notably to a strong playlist of this year's best songs. Our success at E3
2012 and the robust momentum of our Online games are positive indicators for achieving
our full-year targets for 2012-13."
Mr. Guillemot continued "Our medium-term goal is to
capitalize on both the arrival of the new generation of consoles and the ramp-up of the
Free-to-Play segment, which represent two major opportunities for us to step up growth
and enhance our profitability. Our capacity to create successful brands and high-quality
content, allied with our ongoing progress in the item-based model, multi-screen gaming
and the development of Uplay (our online services and distribution platform, which now
boasts 35 million members) place us in an ideal position to leverage these two
opportunities.”
Zapages
Hopefully this will mean that it will eventually get ported to PC...
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