Tencent and Guillemot family considering Ubisoft Buyout

[pg2g]

Just imagine the hate the Xbox would get for ruining Ubisoft (even though they were going to ruin themselves).

[KakkaKarrotKake]

Maybe they would never have been interested anyway but I’m glad this wasn’t a few years ago before they got ABK

If there was one publisher I wanted xbox to avoid getting it was Ubisoft

[Hue]

https://x.com/Florian4Gamers/status/1842653769093230891?t=6aJjw9bgS-idILEQu4epIg&s=19

For those interested in the cloud rights.

[Hue]

@KakkaKarrotKake

Maybe they would never have been interested anyway but I’m glad this wasn’t a few years ago before they got ABK

If there was one publisher I wanted xbox to avoid getting it was Ubisoft

Why?

[BRiT]

@Hue

https://x.com/Florian4Gamers/status/1842653769093230891?t=6aJjw9bgS-idILEQu4epIg&s=19

For those interested in the cloud rights.

Can you post the final 3/3 follow up post too?

Silly Twitter platform makes it impossible for those without an account to see what they are. – such a worthless platform unless you give up your data.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

@BRiT

Can you post the final 3/3 follow up post too?

Silly Twitter platform makes it impossible for those without an account to see what they are. – such a worthless platform unless you give up your data.

https://x.com/Florian4Gamers/status/1842653770678759731

[PowerDrift (Paul)]

@Hue

From a business perspective ABK obviously is still the better buy as it’s making them a tonne of money.

Ubisoft unfortunately is not in the same boat that way, however more of their games do interest me than the current ABK games. I really enjoy Assassin’s Creed, FarCry, Rainbow Six/Division, Immortals and my kids love Just-Dance.

If ABK can get back to the old days with Prototype, Vigilante 8, Spider-Man, Transformers, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero etc then they would definitely appeal to me more than just a CoD factory.

I said at the time that I would have personally preferred Ubisoft and that’s when they were $5-7B instead of the sub $2B today.

I just don’t like what Xbox became after the ABK buyout. One could well be wrong, but if Xbox had bought Ubi instead of ABK Xbox would never have needed to make any concessions to the CMA and all of Ubisoft games would be up on Gamepass right now

While the ABK is so big we’ve had concessions over cloud, Xbox games coming out on other platforms and not all of ABK games up on Gamepass they must be reasons for that that are either monetary to help pay for the deal or concessions to get the deal approved

Sure, it’s great business but as I’m not a shareholder in Microsoft that means little, but I guess it helps pay for the console side.

[Hue]

@PowerDrift

I just don’t like what Xbox became after the ABK buyout. One could well be wrong, but if Xbox had bought Ubi instead of ABK Xbox would never have needed to make any concessions to the CMA and all of Ubisoft games would be up on Gamepass right now

While the ABK is so big we’ve had concessions over cloud, Xbox games coming out on other platforms and not all of ABK games up on Gamepass they must be reasons for that that are either monetary to help pay for the deal or concessions to get the deal approved

Sure, it’s great business but as I’m not a shareholder in Microsoft that means little, but I guess it helps pay for the console side.

100% agree, if does feel like ABK killed part of Xbox’s soul.

It felt like there was so much momentum, with new exclusives, hardware and software and then ABK happened. Not that it’s still happening but it’s definitely slowed down.

I suspect your right, the Ubisoft games would likely already be on GamePass, instead here we are almost a year later and we’re still waiting for ABK games. Ubisoft have released so many games that GamePass would be dripping in first party content right now.

[SphereSeeker]

Damn not Tencent literally anyone else. Hopefully Ubisoft bounces back with their future releases.

[Searsy82]

@Hue

100% agree, if does feel like ABK killed part of Xbox’s soul.

It felt like there was so much momentum, with new exclusives, hardware and software and then ABK happened. Not that it’s still happening but it’s definitely slowed down.

I suspect your right, the Ubisoft games would likely already be on GamePass, instead here we are almost a year later and we’re still waiting for ABK games. Ubisoft have released so many games that GamePass would be dripping in first party content right now.

There is no world where buying Ubisoft makes more sense than buying ABK. Their games being on GP by now sure isn’t a good argument either.

I agree that it feels like Xbox changed afterward, but from a pure business perspective ABK makes more sense 100/100 times.

[Hue]

@Searsy82

There is no world where buying Ubisoft makes more sense than buying ABK. Their games being on GP by now sure isn’t a good argument either.

I agree that it feels like Xbox changed afterward, but from a pure business perspective ABK makes more sense 100/100 times.

Yes, my reply was more in relation to what Xbox become post-ABK.

I already mentioned that ABK made more sense above .

@Hue

From a business perspective ABK obviously is still the better buy as it’s making them a tonne of money.

Ubisoft unfortunately is not in the same boat that way, however more of their games do interest me than the current ABK games.

[Searsy82]

@Hue