Company Overview

Ubisoft Entertainment SA
TypePublic
IndustryVideo Games
Founded28 March 1986; 37 Years Ago
FoundersChristian Guillemot
Claude Guillemot
Gérard Guillemot
Michel Guillemot
Yves Guillemot
HeadquartersSaint-Mandé, France
Key people
Yves Guillemot (Chairman, CEO)
Frédérick Duguet (CFO)
RevenueDecrease €1,814.3 million (2023)
Decrease €-487.4 million (2023)
Decrease €-494.2 million (2023)
Total assetsIncrease €4,959.2 million (2023)
Total equityIncrease €1,807.1 million (2023)
Number of employees
20,665 (2022)
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Ubisoft Entertainment SA was founded by the five Guillemot brothers in 1986 in Saint-Mandé, France, to create and supply video games worldwide.[1] Ubisoft produce and publish video games for consoles, PC, smartphones, and tablets in both physical and digital formats in Europe, North America, and internationally. Notable game franchises include Assassin’s Creed, Prince of Persia, Far Cry, For Honor, Tom Clancy’s, and Watch Dogs.

The company also has a presence in the Movies and Entertainment industry through its Ubisoft Film & Television division, which has the mission "to bring Ubisoft’s award-winning games into new areas of entertainment and to create original stories set in the world, culture and community of gaming"[2]. The division has a pipeline of projects, including the films “Just Dance” (Screen Gems), the live-action “Assassin’s Creed” (Netflix) series, the current “Mythic Quest” (Apple TV+) series and “Rabbids Invasion” (season 4 on Netflix).[3]

Ubisoft Entertainment SA has a strategic partnership with Tencent and Playcrab; and collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm Games.

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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will release on 7th December 2023; Skull & Bones will release during FY24 - it will have a closed beta starting on 25th August, so could well release nearer the end of FY24 (originally expected for the beginning of FY24); The Crew Motorfest will release on 14th September 2023; The Division Resurgence (mobile) will release in Fall 2023;

XDefiant will launch this summer, after an open session from 21-23 June; Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will launch on 18th January 2024; Just Dance 2024 will release on 24 October 2023. Release dates already known Assassin’s Creed Mirage will release on 12th October 2023; Star Wars Outlaws will release in calendar 2024: we assume within FY25 or they would have been more specific.

So overall for the FY24 slate they have Assassin’s Creed Mirage (AAA but smaller than usual), Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (AAA), Skull and Bones (AAA), The Crew Motorfest (AAA), Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, Just Dance 24, Rainbow Six Mobile, The Division Resurgence (mobile) and XDefiant (mobile). And there remains “another large game” as well that has yet to be announced. Star Wars Outlaws is not that other large game.

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