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Ubisoft 'bullish' on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sales

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ubisoft executives said they were bullish about the prospects for the next-generation consoles even after they were chastened last year for being overly optimistic about the Nintendo Wii U game console.

Yves Guillemot, the chief executive of the French video game publisher, said in an earnings conference call with analysts that the company is encouraged that preorders for the Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlaySation 4 are double what they were in the last generation.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.