Imagine: Saturation of a Franchise....
.......to the point where even the "fans" of those crap games aren't buying them anymore. Mommy & Daddy ain't buying them for their kids anymore because they don't remember which Imagine games they bought already, since there's so damn many of them. Besides, it ain't Christmas time....you know, the time when mom, dad, gram-ma, gram-pa, uncle and auntie are all trying to find stuff for the kiddies of the family? Release a ton of those crap games in the middle of Summer and no one even knows they exist, let alone care about them, or remember which ones they bought before.
To blame their losses on piracy is ludicrous. Most people intelligent enough to pirate DS games wouldn't touch a P.O.S. Imagine game, let alone buy them.
OK, so the decline is over the entire line of UBIsoft games.....what-all games have they made, and for what-all systems (besides the DS's crappy Imagine games) in the time specified? Let me see a COMPLETE list of UBIsoft games released for all systems, within this 64% decline time-frame, and then we will see where their "decline in profits" really stems from.
I'm guessing ANY of us here at GBAtemp (and just about ANY other gaming forum for that matter) would see that master list and could tell them EXACTLY why they are hurting in sales. Betcha! But the suits they have running their business can't.....they just scream "PIRACY" and think that just HAS to be the obvious reason for the tanking sales figures. Pretty freakin' sad and pathetic, isn't it?
Sorry, but while a sucker may be born every minute, only the really stupid ones stay suckers for long. Just how many crap games do they think people will sucker for anyway?
Moral to the story? Quit making crap games and put out games that are actually GOOD and will appeal to a wider audience. UBI's problems will then be solved.
It's apparent to me that UBI is full of booby's.....as in idiots, not the female appendages, you dirty-minded little whippersnappers.