Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto VI is about for launch in 2025, and given how large the sport’s launch is predicted to be, many are questioning the way it might have an effect on titles from competing corporations. Ubisoft, for its half, has mentioned it is trying ahead to GTA VI’s launch as a result of when a sport as massive as GTA VI comes out, it helps the market total.
“What we see, typically, when GTA is coming, is that extra individuals come to play. So typically it is optimistic on the general market,” CEO Yves Guillemot said during Ubisoft’s latest earnings call.
Guillemot went on to say that historic tendencies for Ubisoft’s enterprise bear this out. He mentioned Ubisoft’s video games loved “excellent gross sales” across the time that GTA V got here out in 2013, whereas its titles additionally carried out effectively when the GTA V re-release for PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S launched in March 2022.
“It’s one thing that’s counter-intuitive however is working for us normally,” Guillemot mentioned.
The corporate went on to say that Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag, which was launched a month after GTA V in 2013, loved report gross sales for the sequence on the time. Ubisoft’s total philosophy is to give attention to delivering high-quality sport experiences even when the competitors is powerful, the corporate mentioned.
Ubisoft has not, nevertheless, introduced its full sport launch pipeline for 2025, so it is too quickly to say what Ubisoft sport is likely to be competing with GTA VI. The sport is about for launch throughout Fall 2025, however each Rockstar sport up to now decade has been delayed so there’s a likelihood this occurs once more with GTA VI.