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Ubisoft Would Consider Hollywood Buyout
GamesIndustry.biz has the word that Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia developer Ubisoft may consider a buyout by a Hollywood studio. Intriguing, after the back and forth between Ubisoft and EA earlier this year. From the article: "The CEO told the paper that an acquisition by a large multinational entertainment firm - such as Walt Disney Co. or Time Warner - 'is a solution which could be, for us, fairly interesting.'" Interesting would be to see how such a development would affect the franco-phone-tastic relations that Ubi has with Quebec.
Babblefish translation from French:
"We don't have a plan for next gen, and we're hoping people with more money than smarts want to take a swing at video games."
So the guys that created Splinter Cell are "good but nothing special". If they were nothing special, the games wouldn't have been huge successes that prompted Ubisoft to increase their involvement in Montreal.
Your really think the auto industry that makes southern ontario rich gets no subsidies? Get real. For every Honda or Toyota sold anywhere in Canada a tariff is taken and funneled back to the companies that hasn't given a job to canadians living outside of the southern ontario peninsula for 40 years. Wait that's not true, we had a plant that was one of the most productive ones for GM, out in Boisbriand, was closed down when the F-bodies productio where stopped (camaro and firebird). The TCA was really cool with the Boisbriand plant closing, as long as all ontario plants where safe.
You think Quebec has no income other then the money given to us by the almighty Ontarians? Hydro-Quebec by itself generated 2.4 billion in profit, and gave the government a 1.4 billion dividend, not counting all the secondary benefits from being able to provide cheap electricity to companies like Alcan, Alcoa et al.
If you're from Alberta, well, sorry, we ain't pumping pure money out of the ground like you guys are, wish we where. But my experience has told me that people that go out on the web to slander quebecers are usually from southern Ontario. Which is kinda fitting, since your elite has spent the last 25 years scaring american investors into putting money into Toronto and not the evil french province, even when it costs way more to do something in the GTA then in greater Montreal.