Ubisoft Explains the Port in Portable

[heartgold]

At an investor Q&A earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot discussed plans for the portable and mobile market.

He reiterated the publisher's plans to have a strong focus on both the upcoming next generation portable powerhouses, Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP, with key franchises from the high-end machines extended into the portable domain - the likes of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Rayman et al.

From there also drive additional revenue by ensuring that games made for the pair can also be scaled down for the mobile market - your iPhones, Androids, tablets etc.

We are working to make sure that the games we create for portable machines can be adapted for those platforms, so that after making good revenue on 3DS or PSP2, we can go to a second phase, which is going at a lower price to other machines.

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About time Nintendo didn't getting scale down ports from the mobile market and now it's the other way round. p vs z anyone?

 

[NiGHtS]

At an investor Q&A earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot discussed plans for the portable and mobile market.

He reiterated the publisher's plans to have a strong focus on both the upcoming next generation portable powerhouses, Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP, with key franchises from the high-end machines extended into the portable domain - the likes of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Rayman et al.

From there also drive additional revenue by ensuring that games made for the pair can also be scaled down for the mobile market - your iPhones, Androids, tablets etc.

We are working to make sure that the games we create for portable machines can be adapted for those platforms, so that after making good revenue on 3DS or PSP2, we can go to a second phase, which is going at a lower price to other machines.

Source
About time Nintendo didn't getting scale down ports from the mobile market and now it's the other way round. p vs z anyone?

I have a feeling development will go something like this:

NGP => 3DS => iPhone/Xperia Play => All other android

Course when you think about it, it wont be long before Apple announce a new iPhone system that can run games on 3DS or sub par NGP level...

NGP =>iPhone/3DS => Everything else

 

[Evo.lve]

Spoiler

At an investor Q&A earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot discussed plans for the portable and mobile market.

He reiterated the publisher's plans to have a strong focus on both the upcoming next generation portable powerhouses, Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP, with key franchises from the high-end machines extended into the portable domain - the likes of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Rayman et al.

From there also drive additional revenue by ensuring that games made for the pair can also be scaled down for the mobile market - your iPhones, Androids, tablets etc.

We are working to make sure that the games we create for portable machines can be adapted for those platforms, so that after making good revenue on 3DS or PSP2, we can go to a second phase, which is going at a lower price to other machines.

Source
About time Nintendo didn't getting scale down ports from the mobile market and now it's the other way round. p vs z anyone?

I have a feeling development will go something like this:

NGP => 3DS => iPhone/Xperia Play => All other android

Course when you think about it, it wont be long before Apple announce a new iPhone system that can run games on 3DS or sub par NGP level...

NGP =>iPhone/3DS => Everything else

Sony fanboy much?

 

[NiGHtS]

Spoiler

At an investor Q&A earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot discussed plans for the portable and mobile market.

He reiterated the publisher's plans to have a strong focus on both the upcoming next generation portable powerhouses, Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP, with key franchises from the high-end machines extended into the portable domain - the likes of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Rayman et al.

From there also drive additional revenue by ensuring that games made for the pair can also be scaled down for the mobile market - your iPhones, Androids, tablets etc.

We are working to make sure that the games we create for portable machines can be adapted for those platforms, so that after making good revenue on 3DS or PSP2, we can go to a second phase, which is going at a lower price to other machines.

Source
About time Nintendo didn't getting scale down ports from the mobile market and now it's the other way round. p vs z anyone?

I have a feeling development will go something like this:

NGP => 3DS => iPhone/Xperia Play => All other android

Course when you think about it, it wont be long before Apple announce a new iPhone system that can run games on 3DS or sub par NGP level...

NGP =>iPhone/3DS => Everything else

Sony fanboy much?

Not really, when you look at how development went for the DS and PSP in the start of their life cycles it was pretty similar. The PSP would always get watered down ports of PS2 games, while the DS would get even more watered down ports of those games. Or we could go to the very launch of the DS and see that gameloft were cashing in like crazy with ports of their MOBILE software. Asphalt Urban GT, or Sprung...anyone?

We know the NGP is far more powerful to the 3DS and looking at how Ubisoft are notorious at porting games, especially Prince of Persia and Assassins Creed, it's fair to say that they'll port over PS3 versions of their games to the NGP, then water them down to the 3DS. I could be wrong here though, and I hope I am, because god knows who wants to play 3 similar versions of Assassin's creed across three different game markets...

 

[8BitWalugi]

Spoiler

At an investor Q&A earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot discussed plans for the portable and mobile market.

He reiterated the publisher's plans to have a strong focus on both the upcoming next generation portable powerhouses, Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP, with key franchises from the high-end machines extended into the portable domain - the likes of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Rayman et al.

From there also drive additional revenue by ensuring that games made for the pair can also be scaled down for the mobile market - your iPhones, Androids, tablets etc.

We are working to make sure that the games we create for portable machines can be adapted for those platforms, so that after making good revenue on 3DS or PSP2, we can go to a second phase, which is going at a lower price to other machines.

Source
About time Nintendo didn't getting scale down ports from the mobile market and now it's the other way round. p vs z anyone?

I have a feeling development will go something like this:

NGP => 3DS => iPhone/Xperia Play => All other android

Course when you think about it, it wont be long before Apple announce a new iPhone system that can run games on 3DS or sub par NGP level...

NGP =>iPhone/3DS => Everything else

Sony fanboy much?

Not really, when you look at how development went for the DS and PSP in the start of their life cycles it was pretty similar. The PSP would always get watered down ports of PS2 games, while the DS would get even more watered down ports of those games. Or we could go to the very launch of the DS and see that gameloft were cashing in like crazy with ports of their MOBILE software. Asphalt Urban GT, or Sprung...anyone?

We know the NGP is far more powerful to the 3DS and looking at how Ubisoft are notorious at porting games, especially Prince of Persia and Assassins Creed, it's fair to say that they'll port over PS3 versions of their games to the NGP, then water them down to the 3DS. I could be wrong here though, and I hope I am, because god knows who wants to play 3 similar versions of Assassin's creed across three different game markets...

I'm pretty sure the price of the NGP will keep people away from it from the first few weeks.

 

[NiGHtS]

Spoiler

At an investor Q&A earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot discussed plans for the portable and mobile market.

He reiterated the publisher's plans to have a strong focus on both the upcoming next generation portable powerhouses, Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP, with key franchises from the high-end machines extended into the portable domain - the likes of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Rayman et al.

From there also drive additional revenue by ensuring that games made for the pair can also be scaled down for the mobile market - your iPhones, Androids, tablets etc.

We are working to make sure that the games we create for portable machines can be adapted for those platforms, so that after making good revenue on 3DS or PSP2, we can go to a second phase, which is going at a lower price to other machines.

Source
About time Nintendo didn't getting scale down ports from the mobile market and now it's the other way round. p vs z anyone?

I have a feeling development will go something like this:

NGP => 3DS => iPhone/Xperia Play => All other android

Course when you think about it, it wont be long before Apple announce a new iPhone system that can run games on 3DS or sub par NGP level...

NGP =>iPhone/3DS => Everything else

Sony fanboy much?

Not really, when you look at how development went for the DS and PSP in the start of their life cycles it was pretty similar. The PSP would always get watered down ports of PS2 games, while the DS would get even more watered down ports of those games. Or we could go to the very launch of the DS and see that gameloft were cashing in like crazy with ports of their MOBILE software. Asphalt Urban GT, or Sprung...anyone?

We know the NGP is far more powerful to the 3DS and looking at how Ubisoft are notorious at porting games, especially Prince of Persia and Assassins Creed, it's fair to say that they'll port over PS3 versions of their games to the NGP, then water them down to the 3DS. I could be wrong here though, and I hope I am, because god knows who wants to play 3 similar versions of Assassin's creed across three different game markets...

I'm pretty sure the price of the NGP will keep people away from it from the first few weeks.

Which is how much?

 

[SPH73]

NGP is a niche system and dev costs are pretty high. I don't see any dev making it their primary system. So dev will probably work something like this...

3DS>Certain Smart Phones

NGP>PSN>Certain Smart Phones

 

[Rayder]

It doesn't surprise me that a company will put full support into the new handhelds. At least for a while, those systems will be piracy free and they'll know that whatever sales the games make are not tainted by piracy and can get a truer idea of a game's reception.

 

[shakirmoledina]

yes^^, esp since ubi are probably the most active when it comes to combating piracy... but i think they have laid off after seeing the results of AC2 for the pc
no matter what they say, games on the NGP and 3DS (i mean real gaming handhelds) tend to be much more fun and better than on the iphone or other tablets eg. AC 1 and 2 for the iphone/DS

 

[Cuelhu]

inb4 Imagine games on 3DS.

 

[purechaos996]

Actually if the NGP has the graphical capability sony claims it will and the rumored price of $250-300 and considering at how easy sony is claiming it will be to port/dev for it since its like the PS3, then I dont see why it wont be rated higher on the list when games are being created...If a multi-platform game is being made for PS3/XBOX/WII as well as the 3DS and NGP I see no reason why the dev wouldn't just port over the PS3 version to the NGP.

 

[Maedhros]

NGP is a niche system and dev costs are pretty high. I don't see any dev making it their primary system. So dev will probably work something like this...

3DS>Certain Smart Phones

NGP>PSN>Certain Smart Phones

Thanks, God.

 

[KingVamp]

inb4 Imagine games on 3DS.

inb4 this comment actually has something to do with the thread.

 

[Cuelhu]

inb4 Imagine games on 3DS.

inb4 this comment actually has something to do with the thread.

Imagine games are made by Ubisoft. I expect them to make their shovelware games and just port them to the mobiles, just for the quick cash.