Ubisoft CEO on GTA6's Impact and Company's Future Outlook

TapTechNews July 20th news, on the 19th local time, Ubisoft held a conference call. An investor asked Ubisoft senior management how shareholders should view Ubisoft's development plan for 2025, especially in terms of the competitiveness of .

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in response to the above question that although it may be "counter-intuitive", he believes that in general, when the series of games is released, there will always be more people starting to play games. "Generally speaking, this is positive for the entire market, and other games launched during this period actually perform very well."

He took the release of as an example. Ubisoft's was released only one month after , but it is also one of the best-selling games in the series. At the same time, when launched the PS5 and Xbox Series S|X versions in 2022, Ubisoft's games performed "equally well".

According to a previous report by TapTechNews, a financial forecast released by the Bain & Company shows that global game revenue will achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9% in the next few years, which will increase game revenue from 199 billion US dollars in 2022 to 307 billion US dollars in 2027. It is worth mentioning that a big game like which is about to be released in 2025 can bring billions of dollars in revenue by itself.