Ubisoft Expecting New Consoles By 2012

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 23, 2009 @12:38AM from the new-and-better dept.

GamesIndustry is running a brief story about comments from Ubisoft's CEO indicating that the company is gearing up for a new generation of consoles within two to three years. "The French publisher is increasing headcount to work on future technology, with mergers also on the cards to increase development and technology resources. 'We want to take advantage of a company that could bring more technology to us, or new brands,' said CEO Yves Guillemot. 'So we have now enough to help us to grow the company for not only next year but to get ready for the coming of the next generation consoles that are probably going to happen 2011, 2012.'" Guillemot also provided some details about the release plans for some of their upcoming games.

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Re:Fits in with the cycles, big whoop by aliquis · 2009-01-23 01:29 · Score: 4, Interesting

So "Wii Too" will be less powerful than its competitors, but more powerful than the PS3 or 360.
Where do that come from? Nintendo consoles haven't always been technically inferior.
Wasn't snes faster than megadrive? I don't remember.
Gamecube is more competent than PS2, and PS2 still sold at higher prices and way more consoles.
So just because something is affordable don't mean it has to be crap.