Ubisoft boasted its biggest quarter ever yesterday. The third quarter of the company’s fiscal year 2020-2021 saw Ubisoft breaking records with €965.1 million of IFRS 15 sales (a 131.9% increase over last year’s third quarter) and €1,001 million of net bookings (an increase of 119.7% over last year’s third quarter); the latter also exceeded company expectations, which had been set between €860 million and €960 million.
Of course, the many successful releases of this quarter (Watch Dogs: Legion, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Immortal: Fenyx Rising) clearly played an important role in the record sales.
However, Ubisoft chief financial officer Frederick Duguet also remarked that the publisher has successfully harnessed the continued success of the Nintendo Switch console.
It is unclear whether this will drive Ubisoft to invest more in Nintendo Switch ports or even major productions such as a sequel to the popular Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. The original launched in September 2017 to great success and recently there have been rumors of a sequel in the works, though nothing has been announced as of yet.
