At this year's E3, Yves
Guillemot took to the stage with a bunch of Ubisoft developers to make a speech quite clearly aimed at the Vivendi takeover bid.
Not exact matches
Guillemot also confirmed that what development does
take place can be done easily: «What we see is that we will be able to leverage a lot of the work we do for Xbox 360 and PS3 while we create games for the platform.
Yves
Guillemot, president and chief executive officer at Ubisoft: «Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
took the gaming world by storm in 2006 thanks to its technological advances and gameplay innovations.
The new image, which can be found right below, has been shared alongside a short caption, «Ready for the Fight», which hints at today's Ubisoft shareholder meeting today, where Vivendi might
take further steps towards a takeover, something that would be a disaster, according to CEO Yves
Guillemot.
Last year, Vivendi was able to acquire a majority stake in Gameloft, another company founded by the
Guillemots, and ended up
taking over the company.
Over the past few years, Vivendi have been steadily buying up shares in Ubisoft, in an attempt to
take over the company — something that the CEO of Ubisoft Yves
Guillemot was not happy about.
The length of our current console cycle has led to developers
taking fewer risks according to Ubisoft CEO Yves
Guillemot.