CD Projekt Surpasses Ubisoft To Become Europe's Most Valuable Game Company

How "gamers" can be raving about this is a mystery to me. CD-Project has literally only one IP and is a prime example to where the industry is heading as a whole: No risks, no games, but services to rival Steam.

Apparently, there is too much risk envolved and mostly not enough money to be earned in creating and selling big-budget games the traditional way anymore.

Couldn't have happened to a better developer. Could it be that the weak willed are getting tired of constantly being asked for more money for a game they own or that parents are getting tired of throwing cash at their kids for weapon skins and dance moves? Doubtful. But well done anyway, CDPR.

Surprising considering how many games Ubisoft releases vs how many CD does. I guess Ubi really got hit hard last year.

They release one game per 10 years, how is this even possible? Oh yea, i remember, Ubi is the company that releases ALL their games under the Ass Creed formula and has never taken any risky moves in over a decade. What a useless company.

Look how far quality and integrity has brought you? Not farther than other questioned giants with more history, sure, but very fast indeed. Hope they don't sell out.

I don't think Ubisoft is considered as "Europe's Most Valuable Game Company"

Sure they release a lot of games due to big budget, but that doesn't mean their so called AAA titles worth more than some random low budget indie games out there.

Ubisoft's best game released since AC 1 and 2 is Rainbow Six Siege which is 1 good title for over 10 years, out of 174 games that is

Ubisoft sucks. They release buggy as games that aren't even original. This is assassins creed like 9? The first assassin's creed came out when I was in middle school lmao. Just invest in new ideas

Wow!

Pretty amazing when you think about who their competition was.

While I have never been a huge Ubisoft fan they have quite the number of games under their belt. Factor in big name AAA franchises like Assassin’s Creed and that feat is all the more impressive.

Also, considering CD Projekt Red is almost the exact opposite when it comes to games in their own stable and that revelation is even more wild. I’m sure that much of what pushed them over the top was all the other things they are associated with (as the article alluded to.) but still that shouldn’t take anything away from what the team over there have managed to pull off.

Seems like CD Project Red is on track to make new waves in the industry when Cyberpunk releases later in the year. AT this point in time (also considering the hype both the game and the studio is getting.) I wouldn’t be surprised if it snags the top spot on every major gaming site’s GOTY list.

Now just to find the time to play all these great games.

-GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE NINJA APPROVED-

I'm glad to hear CDPR is doing so great because it really is a signal to the rest of the industry. I mean, sure they've still got some problems but, the truth is that GOG is pro consumer, they've been making progress in changing the crunch culture in their own company and have been making killer games the entire time.

I mean, I was only marginally interested in the Switch version of Witcher 3 and am broke af like everyone else right now but, I still saved up and bought it just because I wanted to support them.

Here's to hoping that after this last year of constant screw ups the AAA industry gets the hint.

Must be due to gog primarily? If you compare game releases surely Ubisoft crushes CDPR (talking about money and not quality)?

This kinda reminded me of the French Governments offer for UK based game companies to move to France with tax free benefits. I'm guessing nobody moved even King aka one the greediest companies out there is still in the UK.

Thats cool, but as a Witcher fan (read all the books, loved the netflix show) I would really like more games.

Hell do one where you create your own Witcher, and Geralt is the teacher. Have it as some mad mage tried re-creating the child of grasses. He was stopped but you were already created.

This is such a huge market signal. A company that focuses on basically on making singular, good games (only 3!!!) now outpaces a far more storied one with a tonne of franchises that it just milks to death with a zillion concurrent revenue streams.

Gamers, and now the market it seems, are finally getting sick of that BS business model after what's been a decade of just the worst monetization practices that have degraded the entire medium.

Hopefully EA is next...although at ~$34B, there's a long way to go yet!

it just shows that ubisoft is already out of ideas for games.......

already sick of assassin creed series since the storyline doesnt match up to the first 3 games

its like a vein that just endlessly goes no where