We reported last week that Ubisoft is in an “emergency mode” as business has been far from good for a while and there are numerous other internal issues as well. Accordingly, Ubisoft is said to have already been looking for potential partners in the industry, specifically Ubisoft is said to have proposed mergers and acquisitions on its own.
However, the success of these initiatives – to put it mildly – was limited. Because the gaming journalist Jeff Grubb, who works at Giant Bomb, writes, citing insiders, that the French have been laughed at for their offers.
Ubisoft is too bloated
Grubb writes it down Twitter “Ubisoft has definitely been doing the rounds proposing acquisitions and mergers with other similar companies, and mostly they’ve been laughed at. They’re just too sluggish. The strength was the distributed development structure and now they’re an albatross.” For the employees themselves, takeover talks would be anything but good in this situation, says Grubb. Because for such a business it would be necessary for Ubisoft to slim down and that would mean, above all, that employees would have to be laid off.
Too bloated, not enough success. These are probably the reasons for the current problems at Ubisoft. Numerous games such as Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope have disappointed, and several games could not be completed on the planned date. After the publication of the latest business results and the announcement of the postponements, the share plummeted, but Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot played the ball in an internal email to his employees and said that it was their turn and they had to deliver.
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