Ubisoft has released a press release with its new financial report for the third quarter of its 2014-15 fiscal year. According to the French company, the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity, Child of Light, Far Cry 4, Just Dance 2015, The Crew, Trials Fusion and Frontier, Valiant Hearts and Watch Dog have helped its sales figure go higher than the target of approximately €730 million.
What’s more interesting, however, is an image showing Ubisoft’s sales per platform. As we can see, PC sales accounted for only 9% of total units sold. On the other hand, old-gen and current-gen consoles (from both Sony and Microsft) have surpassed that number. And as you’d expect, Nintendo’s consoles are still below the PC.
To be honest, these numbers do not surprise us. Pretty much all of Ubisoft’s latest titles had issues on the PC. Watch_Dogs was downgraded for no apparent reason and suffered from stuttering issues, Far Cry 4 had stuttering issues (that were lessened thanks to its patches) as well as mouse acceleration problems (that was also fixed), and Assassin’s Creed: Unity is still has issues affecting PC gamers.
The big question now is whether Ubisoft feels its worth putting some more effort to its PC games or not. Also, we’d love to see what will happen with Unity (and whether those promised tessellation effects will actually be added to it).
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Yet Kojima productions shows Metal gear sales are higher then xbox1… Meaning good PC developers get better sales on PC. Ubisoft is digging again.
Yep 😀 And the’re is a Moding Community on PC -> So Devs who Support Mods are best Sellers 😀
Look in GTA or Old BF and SW:KotOR, U3, Shadowrun Returns, Witcher I & II + LoG I & II , PES, NWN I & II and More…
Rockstar doesn’t actually support mods at all. Don’t give them any credit for the modding of GTA IV, that is all the work for modders. Arma series, Skyrim, Fallout, KSP, Sim City 4, a lot of Paradox games, some Blizzard games, Doom, Valve games, Minecraft and soon Dying Light when it get’s it modding tools are are games and developers who actually support modding. Rockstar and GTA do not, in any way, support modding.
if only ubisoft supported the mod scene more…if only.
I bet soon they’ll start blaming pirates.
They have reached china at this point.
That is very positive social behaviour, which we all should be glad for. At least on PC platform.
Source?
Good news btw!
news are from konami itself
dsogaming…com/news/pc-becomes-a-viable-platform-for-konami-unit-sales-increased-by-8-performing-better-than-xbox-one/
it was a article on this site.
yeah 😀 don’t buy their s**ts
To be honest, I think PC gamers are typically more aware of kerfuffles than your average console gamer. Because they have to know how a game runs on their hardware…. Consoles admittedly usually do better sales for some types of games than pc but I do think their terrible reputation and uplay shoulder some blame.
True. PC gamers actually seek out information before making a purchase. That’s one of the benefits of being a console gamer, you’re not required to care about things like ‘performance’ or ‘optimizations’
My little nephew is the typical console gamer – he just goes to the store and picks up a game because he liked the commercial for it on TV. I remember those days. I wasted a lot of money.
Yup the fact unity a BROKEN game sold over 5 milions is pathetic.
Consumers are sheep.
Also far cry 4 is at 1.8 right now…..HOW BROKEN WAS THIS GAME ON RELEASE?
I mean seriously ubisoft released 3 main games in 2014, ALL OF THEM were broken on pc
Then they wonder why they dont sell.
true. i bought all ubisoft games before, but after watchdogs i just stoped, no FC4 or ACU or Crew and and i continue to do so (no rainbow6/no devision or next AC game), not even buying their PC only titles. plus there is no marketing for PC in most AAA games, we never see/saw a ubisoft game being marketed for PC in the at least past years but they have marketing campaigns for consoles, etc…
Me either. I bought WD just recently for 7 euros and even that i consider more than enough for this kind of optimized nightmare.
still? It still stutters? Godamn it ubisoft. Fix your games.
yep, still stutters. on ultra textures with 970 i get 45 to 60fps but the game is unplayable because of stuttering. funny thing is, it’s not constant 60fps even on high textures, jumping between 50 to 60 alot with TXAA or without any type of AA
Yup its the textures, damn you ubisoft and damn you nvidia for not increasing the ram on 9 series.
ps how much ram can you use on 970? Did they fix that?
watchdogs uses near 3.2GB vram at top. i tested mordor on 4k and it used up to 3.89GB. no problem with that
most retarded discussion on far cry 4. The game still stutters WHEN YOU PLAY IT with settings that surpass your configuration. It’s the textures and it’s stuttering ? then f.cking turn them down a notch. I have 970. i5. Works perfect and i play online everyday. No, i don’t use ultra textures. Also, get a ssd. It helps with all kinds of “stuttering”.
looking for a r*tard person ? look at a mirror and you will find one. i was talking about WD, not Farcry.
4 GB of VRAM helps i guess but game needs very powerful CPU and GPU to run well and even then stutters, all of current ubisoft games would benefits from MANTLE, shame they didn’t get it. Shame we still have to wait for DX12 🙁
FC4 in my opinion is much better than everything they made before until brotherhood. But godamn the port is crap.
Good job PC gamers. Stop supporting broken games and yearly rehashes.
Advanced warfare didnt sell either.
Agreed. Several years ago I made the conscious decision to not buy any Ubisoft games to boycott their implementation of an always online DRM.
I can’t believe now I’m avoiding their latest games because they’re mostly rehashes. I bought Far Cry 3 and enjoyed it but have I no desire to buy FC4. I avoided the AC games because they are practically the same game no matter how we look at them(although I did buy AC4: Black Flag at a Steam sale just for the ship warfare section).
I hated fc3, fc4 is actually good, but yeah it is on 1.8 right now, wait until its cheap and its properly patched.
except that these graphs never show digital distribution, let’s be honest here, who the f’ buys PC physical anymore.
With the pick your path deal plus services like steam and us**tplay, the numbers could be higher. Even if this is true ubisoft won’t learn and release even more s**t.
It’s because of your broken games, Ubisoft. I intentionally avoided ALL Ubi games this year and will continue to do so into the future. Let the console gamers keep supporting the s**t. It’s only going to make the industry worse off.
PC gamers are more conscious of bad business practices and aren’t going to keep getting suckered into these shenanigans.
Oh they expect us to pay for their sh**ty console ports ? F’ THEM !
even without bugs or glitches their recent AAA games aren’t as good as their older ones. they are mostly about cliche revenge stories mixed with capture tower mechanic and updated graphics. there was a time that i played Ubi games for their story…they weren’t exactly Masterpieces but some of them were epic. (Prince of Persia Trilogy)
They have recent AAA games without bugs or glitches?
i don’t think so. i said “even without bugs and glitches”, by which i mean “even without considering bugs and glitches”.
Cant wait to cimb towers and chase convoys in The Division….
to be honest i was looking forward to The Division when it was announced but now like many, getting hyped for a AAA Ubi game is hard for me.
I’d rather not have their games at all than those bugged crappy downgraded games.
Start taking pc market seriously, release proper games, optimized, no downgrades, no more 50 paid dlc’s, no more 30 fps “cinematic experience” and those sales will go up real fast.
Well the consoles will always produce more sales but that’s only because they console fanbase is larger.
*STUPIDER
Not larger
They are a larger fanbase. It’s the only reason why they have more sales. I wouldn’t call them more stupid just more ignorant.
They are not larger
Do you honestly believe there are more people with a capable gaming rig than there are console gamers?
YES, these new consoles are weak and games run fine on weaker pcs.
I wasn’t just referring to the new consoles, I was referring to consoles in general. Anyway, the number of console gamers greatly exceed those with a decent gaming PC. That’s why games sell more on consoles, simply because the fanbase is larger. We talking more than 200 million consoles here.
Where do you get your numbers?
Hmm I think I overestimated it but I know it’s close to 200 million units.
Pcs with those specs are crappy laptops at this point.
Yeah I know but the sad truth is that the masses always flock towards consoles where gaming is concerned.
yup, i am quoting activision here “we advertize cod so much that even if you dont want it you gonna buy it”
Good, it just shows that we are quite savvy and have grown tired of Ubisoft’s bullshit.
You have to be an idiot to be buying two AC and one Farcry every year. SO where the most idiots are playing on?
There’s nothing wrong with buying far cry every year. They are really good games and run fine after patches
Just…nope
Maybe ACU that still runs great
Don’t reply to me. I don’t give a s**t if FC runs crap on your sh**ty system you troll
I wouldnt mind a fc every year not that creed has gotten old
Kinda high, I think. I still cant believe that people like to buy broken and copy-paste games.
Well that’s what happens when you treat the customer like sh¡t
The tessellation patch was only for nvidia and bubisoft employees.
Thats not surprising to see and im glad too in a way. It shows that a lot of people are not buying Ubisoft games and I can only assume that this is because Ubisoft dont put enough effort into their PC ports. I have bought every single Assassins Creed game up to Black Flag but the complaints about ACU as well as Ubisoft removing the game from Steam for people in the UK have put me off buying it.
In fact I have no desire to buy any Ubisoft game in the near future after all thats gone off this last year. I was quite looking forward to the Division and R6 Seige but right now all I can expect from Ubisoft is that those games will be unfinished and run like crap.
“I can only assume that this is because Ubisoft dont put enough effort into their PC ports.”
FC3 sold quite well, so yes that is the reason.
What do they expect after releasing broken games and sh**ty ports and except PC users to waste their money of them titles? huh! UbiShitoft should be asking other companies now that how come there PC sales has surpassed console titles sales in recent months.
Very true as emulation has advanced a lot over the past 16 years.. heck I remember playing SF2 arcade on Mame back in my Senior year of HS back in 99 and now PS3 emulators are in the works.
Well of course, do they expect that a turd will sell ?
Well that’s good because we all know what Ubisoft games are like and now they’re down from 13%. I bet they blame it on pirating again LOL.
People are getting sick of unlocking towers Ubisoft.
it’s such a shame to because I was looking forward to The Division
I was looking forward to The Crew, and see what happened. A good game from developers of Driver and TDU buried under Ubisoft design decisions, such as famous towers from the AC series.
wait the cre has ubicliches in it?
Ofc. They’ll probably add their “towers” in Division too. There is simply no hope for this game with Ubisoft as a publisher.
divison is from massive it will be top notch buy it.
You are going to be disappointed. just wait.
Well far cry 3 was fine and they ported it
Plz keep us in this ‘new’ gen.
FC3 was one of the best optimized DX9 game, DX11 done with AMD was very demanding though, still it never benefits any special HW like latest gameworks titles.
How anyone can even say that after what ubisoft has done it with most of late releases?
Well most of their releases are from ubisoft montreal.
Division is made by the people who did the pc version o fc3.
Is there any Ubisoft game where you don’t have to unlock towers?
Grow Home. No, wait…
Splinter Cell.
If you put buggy, overhyped, glitch-ridden, DLC-coated garbage on PC, PC gamers WILL EVENTUALLY STOP BUYING. I personally avoided every Ubi game in 2014 for this exact reason and my boycott will remain into the foreseeable future. I imagine that many PC gamers are doing the same reason for the issues with Unity and Watch Dogs.
Respect the platform and the gamers who support that platform with optimized titles and not crummy console ports and the money will flow. We’re a bit more critical of these kinds of shenanigans and aren’t as easily swayed by shock-and-awe marketing campaigns.
The only Ubisoft game that i cared about in 2014 was MMX Legacy and they done f’ed it up good. They can’t even cash in on recent CRPG incline with such IP.
Rules of nature!
Im afaid instead of them waking up and realizing its them (probably for the most part, at least it was for me) they will probably get lazier with the ports untill people stop buying the games.
In the end i fear they might drop PC support for some of their games like AC or FC. It will be a shame because they can be good, given enough patches are in place..
Well, if they can’t be bothered, good riddance !
They can shove those crappy ports up their a*s.
No… PC gamers don’t pirate games… No… Every dam PC gamer out there is bragging about how much Ubisoft’s games s*ck yet they either don’t play them or they pirate them. Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy,
What? You want decent f’ing PC ports? What? Just for you to pirate it?! The fucking Wii is sometimes getting them more profit!
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This chart doesn’t even show how many games for each system were released. That’s why it’s as reliant as Ubisoft screenshots.
Also this year Ubishit easily surpassed EA as the worst Publisher with the worst managers.
And peasants don’t care, they just buy.
mgs ground zeroes sold more on pc than the xbox one, and it came like 4 months later, so dont blame pirates.
and your argument is not coherent. HOW the f’ do you expect ppl to buy your game if they cant play it properly ? so according to you, they can release unfinished products because they dont sell well ? then how do they expect to get more sells.
sir you are the cancer of gaming industry. PC gamers just do a lil more research before buying a game. So f’ off
No he is with us.
Top class idiot, ubisoft games have been trash on pc for years.
Look at far cry 3 that game sold well because it wasnt trash on pc.
Ubisoft is releasing broken games, ubisoft says they will improve on pc because pc is making more money for them latelly, THEY KEEP ON PUTING BROKEN GAMES.
Yeah, sure… just s**t up OK? You’re saying bul****t. Ubisoft has been complaining about PC piracy for as long as I remember, so I’m actually glad that they chose to stop giving a f’ about you, guys.
ACU at sub 30-17fps on consoles and yet they command the most sales LOL.
Ubisoft has been BSing about piracy not complaining.
Look at future soldier “no pc version because 90% would pirate it”
Which a load of trash and then it was proven that the reason they did that was because they didnt have anyone to port it to pc, then they got ubi kiev
REALLIZE
That future solider, ac3,blackflag, far cry 4, unity and rogue are put on pc by ubisoft kiev.
REALLIZE that the reason they blame piracy is becasue they dont have the skills to port it.
And if you are still a gigantic moron who thinks is because of piracy, ask yourself this WHY DOESNT ANYONE ELSE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT BUT UBISOFT DOES?
Why does ever game outhere put games on pc? Why do japanesse devs put games on pc now?
Because pc gaming is selling, but ubisoft games are broken on pc and thats why they dont sell. REALLIZE that and SHUT UP.
ALSO
“I’m actually glad that they chose to stop giving a f’ about you, guys.”
They havent you braindamaged troll they put more games on pc now than ever before and unlike in the past they release them on time.
How massively Clueless can you be?
and i’m glad that they choose to show you a big middle finger with their 15fps games like ACU. when we say the game is broken or the port is bad on PC, that doesn’t mean the console version is better, they are bad for PC standards which console gamers don’t have one.
AC U is like an exception. Normally we’re getting good ports. And it’s been mostly fixed through patches
ACIII was a bad port, AC BF was a bad port, Ghost Recon (last 3 of them) were bad ports and bad versions of the game, splinter cell conviction was a bad port, the crew had a terrible launch. the only good port i saw from them in past years was blacklist.
honetly far cry 4 is a good game but it is on 1.8 version at this point.
I mean holly crap, whats the point of buying games when they are out?
Just wait 6 months to get properly patched and you get them at a good price.
Far Cry 4Consoles
2014-15 Fiscal Year v1.0… patch forthcoming.
Are you freeking kidding me? Ubisoft’s PC sales are slumping because many of us HATE UBISOFT PORTS. I have completely boycotted Ubisoft. Who wants to pay $60 for a half arsed, badly optimized insult?
This says nothing about PC gaming, or if it’s worth develeping for PC.
Terrible article by a terrible magazine.
no everyone here including the editors are in agreement with you.
wtf are you talking about ?
wii is 6% and PC was 24% in their last report
This sounds like danger that PC gaming isn’t that glorious sales wise.
its fine its ebosoft and cod that get the losses because MILKING
Ubisoft makes crappy games that dont work or are money grabbers and PC gamers dont buy it! Are PC gamers killing the industry? do they not know a good game? Tune in to Ubisofts explanation of thier inadequacies tonight at 10!
Good. let them make crap and push it to people who will eat it. the PC community is large, and we like spending money. the only caveat is that you actually have to work for it by making a product worth that value. Ubisoft, simply can not do so.
and unfinished with need for patches and incomplete with content chopped off to sell as dlc and microtransactions.
I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game since Uplay came around. My last purchases were AC1 and AC2.
You want to know the reason for that 9%… it’s not because we are a superior race that we investigate before buying or we wait till reviews and bla bla bla… it’s because there’s something called “Piracy” and it’s soooo easy to do in PC that I’m really sure we should see a similar sales percentage as in consoles… but wait… let’s download the torrent and f@ck developers…shame on us…
Console fanboy detected…
Please read my comment, I’m part of the PC community and we can’t ignore the piracy… it’s easier this days than ever….
You are an idiot, piracy is less relevant than ever. every year pc sales increasing.
no your not. yes piracy exist, also wii was hacked and so as last gen consoles. GTAV broke selling records and also broke pirating records too, when it’s came out
I already asnwered that idiot. EVERY GAME ubisoft put up on pc this year was broken, last fiscal year they said their pc sales increased.
The fact unity a BROKEN game sells on consoles 5 milion proves that we are infact smarter and consumers are idiots.
Look at inqusitions fifa or lord of the fallen, did those games get “similar” sales to consoles? NO despite being uncrackable for quite some time.
The reason for that low number is because PC gamers are smart enough to spend their money on something else and not fall for Ubisht garbage games.
shut it, stupid kid
“Assassin’s Creed: Unity is still has” – You guys need a new editor?
Seems like PC gamers are the only ones that actually don’t enjoy overpriced, broken and buggy games. Huh, go figure.
Isn’t this Ubisoft data, not “we asked shops what they sale” data. Shouldn’t they include everything, just so Shareholders won’t ask them “why you bother with Uplay instead of throwing it all on Steam, like my son says?”.
Haha we will never see a proper optimized game from Ubisoft again for PC.. Since their broken games are selling in consoles a lot cause the majority of console gamers aren’t conscious gamers/consumers I don’t think they will ever care to optimize their games for PC properly. Not that I care for their games in the end..
I f’ing wonder why nobody bought those games. Clearly its not because they were unplayable, no that couldnt be it.
I hope with these sales figues, Ubisoft stops releasing games on the PC…..
that is stupid, they should improve and stop lying to us.
Far Cry 3 1.5 patch its a pcmasterrace title 120+ FPS !
Far Cry 4 1.8 patch its a console title sadly and thats the truth peasent 40 FPS lol(if u are happy with that FPS i can perfectly see why you love consoles ports)
and also 99% of the PCgamers will agree with me…. make a vote poll and you will see who is the troll and i think you already smell like one by saying stupid things like FC4 runs good its not even close to a decent game !!
PS: I am a big fan of Far Cry series and i own all the games series so i can compare betwen them very easily when one its optimized and one its not.
What did I just say?
I think the only games I’ve actually purchased this past year were indie. They finish their games and are more innovative. The only non-indie game I bought was Dragon Age: Inquisition, but returned it on release day.
If you can prove that they don’t include Steam sales, you can probably get them for tax evasion – this is their fiscal report, after all 😉
i wonder what the % would be if they priced their games better (60$ for a digital game on pc? lolo) and stopped using Uplay