Cita:Q: Will the studio be working on its own original IP?

Pauline Jacquey: Yes. We do parts of games, but it's very actually standard at Ubisoft now to do AAA games, like for the new PS4 console, you need teams of up to 600 guys so you can't do it at just one site. So there's organisation within Ubisoft to make sure that collaboration happens and works. So it's not like outsourcing, it's real co-development and collaboration and I think both sides learn a lot from working together. So I want this to be a very strong pillar of the studio, but yes, I want us to do our own games and I'm very interested in the evolution of the industry like free-to-play and digital and mobile. And that's something that I did already, in the past. Not very famous games, but still millions of players. So I don't know exactly which shape it could take, I've only been here for three months, but my intention is to have a very varied portfolio and collaboration will not just be what we do.

Cita:Q: Do you have to factor the challenges of a new console into your development costs?

Pauline Jacquey: Totally. We actually started making simulations three years ago on next-gen because we knew that it would require probably a multiplication of data by two or four, meaning bigger teams. But it depends on the type of thing that you do, there are games that Ubisoft specialises in like open world action games with a lot of production value, and you do need a team of 400 to 600 people, that's a lot, and next-gen is increasing this. And then some systemic games you can probably afford to do a next-gen game with 100 people. Ubisoft are very generous with resources, making sure product quality is top notch, so it's got a big influence on budget. But then the outcome, the production revenue, should be much higher as well so it balances. It's just the risk is higher, so if we miss it once or twice the impact is big.

Cita:Q: Watch Dogs had a prominent part in the PlayStation 4 conference, do you think that will have a positive effect in terms of attracting people?

Pauline Jacquey: If people knew that we were developing Watch Dogs at Reflections then yes. I'm not sure that a lot of people know. The guys we talk with, when we're looking at candidates to hire them, they're really really surprised that we would work on this game and they're very happy to come and work on it.

We have a team of almost 90 guys working on Watch Dogs, so one third of the team is in the UK.

(02-03-2013 16:10)Estubeny link escribió:Y luego hay juegos indie hechos por una o dos personas más profundos, complejos, adictivos y divertidos que cualquier triple A de Ubi en esta generación.

(02-03-2013 16:34)Stumb0y link escribió:Ahora entiendo la sobreexplotación de algunas sagas, con equipos de hasta 600 personas como para no aprovechar todo el cerdo.┬á

(02-03-2013 18:23)Indyana link escribió:Porque en la creación de contenidos una buena idea vale mucho más que un montonazo de dinero.Las 600 personas supongo que serán para crear un Assassin's en un año. Piensa que se necesita crear mucho material para cada juego. Si pudieran hacerlo en dos años, igual eran 270 como el Watch Dogs.

(02-03-2013 16:10)Estubeny link escribió:Y luego hay juegos indie hechos por una o dos personas más profundos, complejos, adictivos y divertidos que cualquier triple A de Ubi en esta generación.

(02-03-2013 19:06)Linotype link escribió:Exacto. Si te fijas en los créditos de los AC, verás Ubi Singapoore, Ubi Shangai, Hungría, y una retahila de países. Ponen a más gente "produciendo", para sacar el producto en menos tiempo.

Lo chungo es que después de todos Ubi Internacionales, luego salen aun más países, pero sólo gente de "chaqueta" (marketing, ventas, contables, incluso servicios de catering).

Y en EA, lo mismo.

Yo soy siempre de los que se mira los créditos una vez acabado el juego. Mi duda siempre es si los que salen en los "agradecimientos" han cobrado algo o no.

(03-03-2013 15:14)EarthBound link escribió:Y, sin embargo, de los miles de empleados que hacen juegos en Ubisoft, solo salen bien los Rayman y a veces ni eso.

(02-03-2013 16:29)seph1roth link escribió:El modelo de avance tecnologico y de negocio por el que se basan las granedes no tiene futuro alguno por si mismo...salvo que encuemtren alguna forma de aumenatr beneficios, y aqui es donde entra la publicidad, micropagos, dlcs y demas...

No me gusta un pelo hacia donde avanza esta industria.