{"id":20995,"date":"2018-05-18T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue"},"modified":"2018-05-18T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:15:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-only-accounted-for-7-of-ubisofts-yearly-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/nintendo-switch-only-accounted-for-7-of-ubisofts-yearly-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Only Accounted For 7% Of Ubisoft&#8217;s Yearly Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"mariorabbids.0.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ubisoft has released its full year sales and earnings figures for the 2017-18 period, providing us with a breakdown of how the company&#8217;s games performed across various platforms and regions.<\/p>\n<p>A chart showing the difference in sales between rival platforms shows that the Switch accounted for just 7%, with PS4 leading the charge on a strong 42%. Of course, Switch has seen the likes of <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\"><strong>Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/strong><\/a>, <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/south_park_the_fractured_but_whole\"><strong>South Park: The Fractured But Whole<\/strong><\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/just_dance_2018\"><strong>Just Dance 2018<\/strong><\/a> (a series that tends to do well on Nintendo platforms), but has missed out on heavy-hitters such as <strong>Far\u00a0Cry 5<\/strong> and <strong>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Origins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-05-18 at 08.39.44.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Elsewhere, a second chart showing sales by region shows a relative consistency from last year to this. North American-based sales have remained at 47% for the second year running, with Europe marginally dropping from 38% to 37% of the total sum.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/attachment\/2\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\/attachment\/2\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-05-18 at 08.39.19.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what Ubisoft brings to the table at E3 next month, and with the success of Mario + Rabbids and its ongoing support through DLC, we&#8217;d hope to see the studio show some more love for Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>Have you enjoyed Ubisoft&#8217;s selection of games for Switch so far? Would you like to see more be announced at E3? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has released its full year sales and earnings figures for the 2017-18 period, providing us with a breakdown of how the company&#8217;s games performed across various platforms and regions. A chart showing the difference in sales between rival platforms shows that the Switch accounted for just 7%, with PS4 leading the charge on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}