Ubisoft have been one of the Switch’s biggest third party supporters ever since the hybrid platform first launched. With games like Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Starlink: Battle for Atlas (though that didn’t sell as well as Ubisoft had expected), and, of course, numerous Just Dance titles, Ubisoft’s output on the Switch has been sizeable.

Apparently, it’s also been very profitable for them. Speaking during the company’s recent earnings call, Ubisoft’s chief financial officer Frederick Duguet said that the publisher is “reaping the benefits” of the Switch’s huge success, and that it’s many games available on the platform have been major drivers for revenue and profits for the company.

“We’re also reaping the benefits of the Switch’s huge success and our position as leading third-party publisher on the platform thanks to, among others, our Just Dance games and Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle,” said Duguet (via VentureBeat). “The depth and breadth of our catalog, which goes beyond the brands mentioned, provides us with ever-greater visibility and continues to be a strong driver of profitability.”

Currently, with the exception of the upcoming Roller Champions, Ubisoft don’t have any major releases planned for the Nintendo Switch- or, at least, none that have been officiall confirmed. Though they haven’t confirmed a Switch launch for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, there have been multiple listings pointing to one.

Jesse Moerkerk – Longest Game Session In Freefall

Some might say that Super Mario Galaxy 2 and the gravity mechanics within are out of this world, but gamer Jesse Moerkerk took that a bit more seriously than Nintendo intended when in 2011, he spent 18 minutes and 52 seconds within an indoor sky dive playing the game mid free fall. The 6’5” man was said to be very graceful while remaining suspended, though I imagine the waggling of the Wii Remote could have easily sent him into a tailspin.

Ubisoft has had quite the busy day. Along with confirming that Far Cry 5, The Crew 2 and Assassin’s Creed  would be coming in this financial year, Ubisoft also talked to investors and analysts in a recent conference call about Nintendo Switch support.

CFO Alain Martinez talked about how the company would “deliver some great games for the Switch” and that “the platform’s launch has gone incredibly well.” Martinez also said that Ubisoft intends to maintain its position as a leading third party publisher on Nintendo consoles and that it “can’t wait” to talk more about upcoming Switch games.

Those Switch games would include “one unannounced” title along with Just Dance and “one or two more” coming later. It seems like this one unannounced game will showcased at E3 2017 but that’s just us speculating.

What are your thoughts on Ubisoft’s current slate of games to come in the next fiscal year? Let us know in the comments below.

Though there’s still a bunch of unconfirmed reports about the Nintendo NX – including rumours of detachable controllers and whatnot – one thing is somewhat clear: It will be a totally new thing for Nintendo.

As per IGN’s recent Nintendo Video Chat which contained information from internal sources and NX developers, one studio who spoke to Peer Schneider called the platform a “reboot” for Nintendo. This could possibly mean a return to cartridges and possibly going back to the glory days of platforms like the NES and SNES.

Schneider’s sources also discussed how the NX was essentially a portable device that could dock to one’s TV to play games. As for other aspects, Peer himself is convinced that the NX will use memory cards much like how the 3DS handles its cartridges. A Share button is also possible though the “split D-pad” seems a little iffy, especially when Nintendo marketing has been focusing on it a lot recently. The NX will also apparently use infra-red though it won’t be the main means of controlling the games.

Detachable controllers were described as low budget and it’s possible they attach to the system. SCD with a dock and additional hardware also seems possible while Just Dance will probably use something to measure what you’re doing while playing.

Meanwhile, a 720p resolution has been cited as “credible” and “very highly likely”. Again, take all of this with a grain of salt and stay tuned to more information. The Nintendo NX is currently set to release by March 2017.

Thanks, Reddit.

Ubisoft haven’t made much of a secret of the fact that they are actually fairly excited and on board with the NX, Nintendo’s upcoming enigmatic new system that it increasingly seems will be a handheld and console hybrid. It makes sense- the company has always been at the forefront of supporting new technologies, including Nintendo’s own DS, Wii, Wii U, and 3DS, and they’ve ended up doing very well each time (even on Wii U, where they were one of the most successful third party publishers).

So their excitement for the NX is at least founded, and has a base. Now, in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Ubisoft’s head of EMEA Alain Corre expressed his enthusiasm for Nintendo’s new machine, and its potential implications for the market, and also hinted that Just Dance won’t be the only game the publisher brings to the system.

“We announced that we’re developing Just Dance for NX and we have other surprises that we will announce later, but we also believe Nintendo has the power to reinvent the way families are playing,” Corre said. “Nintendo is a fantastic powerhouse of brands that are really cherished by a lot of fans and families… I am still impressed by the reoccurrence of success and appetite even today for the Nintendo franchises on the current system.”

Of course, it remains to be seen to what capacity the NX will be supported by Ubisoft- it’s entirely possible it becomes a dumping ground for more casual and family oriented fare, instead of the kind of high end AAA support that many are honestly expecting and would rather accept.

The Nintendo NX is due to be fully announced and revealed come September, so we should know soon enough either way.

What exactly is the NX? We don’t know. What are Nintendo trying to do with it? We don’t know. What is it going to be like? We don’t know. We know nothing about the NX, beyond the fact that it exists. What we can see, however, is that a lot of people, people in the know – third parties, analysts, insiders – are excited for the product. It makes it clear that whatever Nintendo is working on warrants being excited over.

Two days ago, Ubisoft became the first western third party publisher to openly pledge support for the NX when they announced Just Dance for it. Today, they spoke about their excitement for the NX, and what they expect it to do, adding that they are working closely with Nintendo on the console.

“We have always appreciated the relationship with Nintendo, the co-creation and the fact that they are really concentrating on quality – they have fantastic brands,” Ubisoft’s Alain Corre told MCV at Ubisoft’s E3 booth in Los Angeles.

“And they are addressing the family market in a very different way, their own way, which we appreciate. We have done a lot of products and successes with Nintendo in the past, and we believe that the NX will recapture a lot of the lapsed Wii players. So we will see when they release it, but we are confident.”

Lapsed Wii players could mean one of two things- either the insane base of casual gamers that Nintendo had with the Wii, or the core players who bought the Wii, and lost faith in them afterwards. It could also just be referring to both those demographics- that would actually be for the best.

Which is it? Again, we don’t know. And we won’t know until Nintendo finally take the wraps off of the NX, which they are due to some time later this year.

Ubisoft has finally confirmed that it’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate would not be coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3. However, during an earnings briefing, CEO Yves Guillemot also revealed that aside from Just Dance, many of its major series would not have previous-gen versions.

“On Just Dance, we will continue to bring old-gen console versions. But on the other products like Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six, The Division, and the unannounced franchise, we will not have old-gen versions.”

The reasoning was quite simple – sales on the PS4 and Xbox One made up 52 percent of total software sales, as compared to 15 percent during the same period last year. Considering the amazing performance of both the Xbox One and PS4 worldwide, the latter selling more than 22 million units worldwide, it only makes sense to adopt current gen platforms as soon as possible.

Will any of the above games come to the Wii U? We haven’t seen titles like Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Valiant Hearts: The Great War or Far Cry 4 on the Wii U, with Child of Light and Just Dance being the sole exceptions last year. Time will tell what Ubisoft’s plan for Nintendo’s console will be down the line.

Rainbow Six: Siege and Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate are both out later this year for Xbox One, PS4 and PC while Tom Clancy’s The Division has been delayed to Q1 2016. Stay tuned for more information.

Nintendo’s Wii U has been having a rough time since its launch, although the tides are turning, what with the release of the excellent Mario Kart 8, the accompanying sales boost, and Nintendo’s great E3 performance that has had even the mainstream talking. Third parties had largely abandoned the Wii U during its off days, but Ubisoft, which was one of the first and most vocal third party supporters of Nintendo’s newest console, still professes to have faith in the system and believes it can excel at the right price.

“With Mario Kart, Wii U made one step and we expect with Smash Bros. it will also do more. If Nintendo put the right price on the machine then they will probably have a chance to do further,” Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot said, speaking to CVG.

“We are coming with Watch Dogs and Just Dance this year. We also have another game on the shelves that we expect to come at some point when there will be more machines,” revealed Guillemot.

“That game is waiting for more machines to be available,” he added, in reference to the ‘availability’ of Wii U owners and, thus, potential customers.

“We are also waiting for them to achieve more sales so that we can invest more. Because the problem we have with next-gen now here, is that we are seeing less games that are on next-gen and last-gen consoles.

“Nintendo has to perform this year, otherwise they will have less games. Justifying investing in the machine needs a larger install base,” said Guillemot.

Nintendo’s performance this year has already seen a boost, and the momentum seems set to continue, thanks to an excellent E3 and the impending launch of Super Smash Bros. Whether Nintendo is smart enough to capitalize on all this positivity, or whether it chooses to squander on all of this again, remains to be seen.

A recent WHOIS search reveals that Ubisoft has registered a new domain name, titled Just Dance Now, though www.justdancenow.com just redirects to the main site. The site has been registered by Daniel Ljungberg, who works at Massive Entertainment (Ubisoft’s developer for The Division). The domain was filed on March 20th.

Of course, Ubisoft had a reply regarding the same. Speaking to VG247, a representative stated that, “It’s standard industry practice for companies to register multiple domain names that could be associated with successful brands, and that’s the case here. We don’t have anything else to share at this time.”

It’ll obviously be a new Just Dance title for the Kinect, where you flail your arms in an effort to perform the act of “dancing” for your friends and family, but what does the “Now” of the title imply? E3 2014 seems to be a good place to find out, but that only means more weird dancing skits from Ubisoft. We’ll stay tuned in the mean time.

How big is Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise, a franchise which will see not one but apparently two games coming out this year with Assassin’s Creed: Unity and Comet? According to Superannuation (via Kotaku), Ubisoft’s Facts 7 Figures page saw an update recently which put the series total sales at 73 million units. Just Dance came in second with 48 million units. If that’s not a strong indication as to why Ubisoft is still sticking to yearly sequels, then nothing is.

Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy series of games is also immensely popular – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell sold 30 million lifetime units, followed Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six with 26 million units and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon with 25 million units. Petz is also pretty popular with 24 million units sold till date.

Rumours state that Ubisoft will show off Assasin’s Creed: Unity at this year’s E3 with two demos, one for the single-player campaign and the other to show off the new four player co-op. It will be releasing in the Holiday season for PS4, PC and Xbox One.