{"id":63567,"date":"2018-11-20T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/switch_game_sales_make_up_three_percent_of_ubisoftrs_total_earnings_in_second-quarter_of_2018-19"},"modified":"2018-11-20T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:30:00","slug":"switch-game-sales-make-up-three-percent-of-ubisofts-total-earnings-in-second-quarter-of-2018-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/switch-game-sales-make-up-three-percent-of-ubisofts-total-earnings-in-second-quarter-of-2018-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Game Sales Make Up Three Percent Of Ubisoft\u2019s Total Earnings In Second-Quarter Of 2018-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7f75555d40e53\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7f75555d40e53\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside \/>\n<p class=\"description\">A slump in sales<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\" \/><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><span class=\"icon icon-time\" \/> <span>6 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Rabbid IMG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7f75555d40e53\/rabbid-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7f75555d40e53\/rabbid-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbid IMG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The French-based publisher Ubisoft has provided ongoing support for the Switch, courtesy of special collaborations bringing together its own franchises and Nintendo&#8217;s famous IP. Despite <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a><\/strong> becoming the highest selling third-party game on the system and <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/mario_plus_rabbids_on_nintendo_switch_has_sold_more_than_two_million_copies\">shifting<\/a> more than two million copies, the overall game sales for Ubisoft on Nintendo&#8217;s platform compared to other devices continues to be a small percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Switch <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\">accounted<\/a> for just seven percent of the company&#8217;s earnings in 2017-18 financial period and during the first-quarter sales for 2018-19, it made up <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/switch_game_sales_make_up_five_percent_of_ubisoftrs_total_earnings_in_record_first-quarter\">five percent<\/a> of sales. The latest update about Ubisoft game sales on Switch reveals the company&#8217;s second-quarter earnings for the 2018-19 period on the platform are at a total of three percent. One important factor to consider is how this does not take into account sales for the recently released titles <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/starlink_battle_for_atlas\">Starlink: Battle for Atlas<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/just_dance_2019\">Just Dance 2019<\/a><\/strong>. Starlink on the Switch was arguably the definitive edition of the game thanks to the addition of the Star Fox crew, with <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/82_percent_of_starlink_battle_for_atlas_sales_were_on_switch_in_uk_only_managed_14th_in_charts_debut\">sales charts<\/a> in certain regions revealing it was also the most purchased version of the game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Ubisoft Switch Sales Q2 2018 19\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2d8c549a3df0\/ubisoft-switch-sales-q2-2018-19.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2d8c549a3df0\/ubisoft-switch-sales-q2-2018-19.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ubisoft Switch Sales Q2 2018 19\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As can be seen above, this percentage is still a significant drop when compared to the 19 percent for the second quarter during the 2017-18 period. Mobile sales have also improved by a single percentage in the 2018-19 second quarter and are now ahead of Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid device.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you bought one of Ubisoft&#8217;s games this year? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2018\/11\/20\/3-of-ubisofts-total-sales-in-the-second-quarter-of-2018-19-came-from-the-nintendo-switch\/\" href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2018\/11\/20\/3-of-ubisofts-total-sales-in-the-second-quarter-of-2018-19-came-from-the-nintendo-switch\/\">mynintendonews.com<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/ubistatic19-a.akamaihd.net\/comsite_common\/en-US\/images\/pressrelease_downloadablemm_20181030_050020_ubisofth1fy19englishfinal_tcm99-339620_tcm99-196733-32.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/ubistatic19-a.akamaihd.net\/comsite_common\/en-US\/images\/pressrelease_downloadablemm_20181030_050020_ubisofth1fy19englishfinal_tcm99-339620_tcm99-196733-32.pdf\">ubistatic19-a.akamaihd.net<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2018-11-20T11:25:38+00:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slump in sales by Liam Doolan 6 hours ago The French-based publisher Ubisoft has provided ongoing support for the Switch, courtesy of special collaborations bringing together its own franchises and Nintendo&#8217;s famous IP. Despite Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle becoming the highest selling third-party game on the system and shifting more than two million [&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-63567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567","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=63567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}