Ubisoft Remaining Independent for Now, but Will 'Review' Any Buyout Offers
The video game industry has seen tons of change over the past few years. Microsoft has been incredibly busy amassing first party studios through creating them from scratch like The Initiative to purchasing existing studios like Bethesda and the recent massive purchase of Activision Blizzard. Even Sony has followed suit, scooping up studios like Insomniac, BluePoint Games, and the recent deal with Bungie and its hit franchise, Destiny.
With so many studios starting to get vacuumed up by the bigger companies, fans have begun to wonder about who is left and what their futures could possibly be. Fan speculation has even attempted to link certain developers to companies, such as Sony and Konami, who holds the rights to traditional PlayStation IPs like Metal Gear and even Silent Hill. Some of the bigger fish still independent are Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, both of which recently addressed their futures and even the idea of being acquired.
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In terms of Ubisoft, CEO Yves Guillemot and CFO Frédérick Duguet recently held a conference call with investors, reporting on sales, taking questions, and laying out release windows for games currently in development like Skull & Bones, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. However, Guillemot was asked specifically about the recent rise in acquisitions around the industry and what Ubisoft's perspective would be.
Surprisingly, Guillemot seemed fairly open to it, though he did confirm that Ubisoft plans to remain an independent company thanks in large part to its financial scale as well as its large portfolio of IPs. However, any offer made to acquire Ubisoft would be reviewed by the board of directors instead of
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