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Ubisoft to Enter the Sports Gaming Market

Posted by Zonk on from the french-people-making-football-games dept.

An anonymous reader writes "eToychest has posted news that Ubisoft will be developing a series of sports games. The company has signed an exclusive license with Vijay Singh to produce a Vijay Singh-titled golf game. Ubisoft also announced that it has acquired the technology, tools and source code shipped in Microsoft Game Studios team sports games, including NHL Rivals, NFL Fever, NBA Inside Drive and MLB Inside Pitch." GamerCentric.com has a quick piece on this as well.

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  1. Uh, good for them? by Wraithfighter · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ubisoft might, repeat, might be able to get their money's worth in the NBA area, since there has yet to be a clear winner in that category.

    And I'm pretty sure that NCAA football hasn't gone exclusive yet, so some money could be made there, but no football and no baseball means they lose out on two of the three biggest sports games.

    That, and Vijay doesn't really have the oooh-ahhh name power that Tiger does. Yeah, he's ranked #1 right now, but still no star power.

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