 So Ubisoft's financial results turned up something very interesting and potentially promising for the Nintendo switch They did a breakdown of sales by platform This goes over Q2 of the previous year the past six months and well Q2 of this current fiscal quarter and here is what is amazing about that So the leading platform for them in terms of sales was PlayStation 4 at 31 percent The next platform was Xbox one at 20 percent guess which platform led, you know Q2 after that Nintendo switch at 19 percent That's right. And if you look at the past six months Nintendo switch made up 12 percent of sales Of course that includes multiple quarters worth of sales. So You have to assume a majority of that 19 percent of sales that Nintendo switch made up came from Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle now, of course This is a success story that borrows Nintendo's own IP and combines it with something from Ubisoft But this kind of sales success is how you get third parties to come to switch Now we have talked in the past about how third parties are testing the waters with Nintendo switch whether it be Capcom or EA or Ubisoft or Bethesda who seems to be tested it with quite a few titles Maybe it's so many titles now that Bethesda is not really testing anything. They're just all in Ubisoft obviously dipped their toes in the water with Nintendo switch as well Now they dipped their toes in the water and probably the smartest fashion You can very similar to the way Koei Tekwo did by releasing well fire of the Warriors another IP That dips its toes into Nintendo's stable of franchises and because they did this and because they created a game That's so excellent. In fact, I still think that Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle is the best Nintendo switch exclusive now The caveat to that of course is that I haven't finished Super Mario Odyssey So I'm not including Super Mario Odyssey in the conversations yet But yeah, Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle is fantastic and it's sold very very well So well that 19% of their sales were made up of you know that game on Nintendo switch just amazing and Yeah, this is good news If I had hoped that they were gonna try to release, you know future Assassin's Creed games or future games in general on switch Beyond just you know the Just Dance franchise I feel like this 19% figure is Justification for that because if you think about it, that's just 1% less that are total sales of all software on Xbox one That is amazing Amazing in fact it beats out PC You could argue that they could justifiably release more of their games on switch because of the sales numbers now again Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a very unique thing and it's obviously probably going to sell a lot better than say if they have Brought Assassin's Creed Origins over but if they can have a success like Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle Maybe they have a second one coming Maybe they have You know some other partnerships with Nintendo in the works for other partner games like that While also releasing the Assassin's Creed and these other games on switch You could start to see Nintendo switch really climb up and PlayStation 4 with their massive install base was only 12% better So switch has the potential to gain on that in years coming up That is if Ubisoft continues to show support and with such a strong percentage of sales on a brand new platform I don't know why Ubisoft wants so this is kind of a case where someone dipped their toes in the water They did it in a very smart way and now they could use that to justify not only more games like that again I think the I mean the door is wide open for a Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle 2 And with how well the first one was received the second one's probably going to sell pretty well as well I'm not saying they should you know crap one of those out next year What if they annulce one next year and it releases in 2019? I think that would be a smart decision on their part, but they could use this as a springboard to get Assassin's Creed and All their other franchises out there, you know bringing over for honor or something like they have a lot of franchises That they control. I wouldn't mind seeing the division get a second run at life on this platform watch dogs to watch dogs Three in the future whatever the case may be I'm pretty excited and I know that Ubisoft doesn't always make the best decisions out there I mean, there's a reason Jim Sterling has like oh Ubisoft portion to some of his videos because of the lies and the Terrible things that you're quote-unquote terrible things that Ubisoft has done over the years but they are still one of the top Western AAA developers and Any sort of sales success like this and this is a pretty significant junk of sales success for a brand-new platform is Noteworthy going up against platforms that have been on the market for a long time So kudos to Nintendo kudos to Ubisoft We can only hope that I mean if this isn't a good enough sales success to see Ubisoft start bringing more games to the platform Then I don't know what is because this has to be what other companies are dreaming of in terms of sales success I'm sure fire Emma warriors probably also did decently well for Kohi Tecmo because Hyrule warriors Ended up being one of their best-selling warriors games in quite a long time And well, I don't think fire Emma warriors is gonna sell quite as well as Hyrule warriors because Zelda is just it kind of universally praise as a bigger franchise I do think the fire Emma warriors is gonna perform well And probably already has so this is just really really good news really good news and an example of if you're gonna dip your Toe into the Nintendo fan base You should do it in a way that makes sense before you start just bombarding people Necessarily with games that might be bad ports or whatever the case may be now This isn't to knock Bethesda who's obviously trying to put their best foot forward and bring in over three games so far This isn't knocking you can call you Tecmo who says they have you know three or four more games planned for switch But it's still interesting to see this approach work so well Thank you Ubisoft for making that game because I don't think that game exists without you Thank You Nintendo for allowing them to use your IP and have it mix so masterfully with the rabbits Which I think when I first heard this concept I'm like really Mario and the rabbits and the thing is I like the rabbits But I didn't even think that would be a good mix and it worked out so awesome good stuff You know we spent a lot of time Chastising third parties on this channel for some of the dumb decisions they make But it's nice when you have a positive story like this built around a fantastic game a Success story for third parties that could drive future third-party support again I know the counter argument to this will always be have Mario in the game So of course and Mario sells to Nintendo fans. I understand that But I think it also helped Reinvigorate things like the rabbits and reinvigorate Ubisoft to consider releasing more games on the platform Because if you're gonna have a Mario plus rabbits kingdom out of two coming that could help offset some of the risks You might take with an assassin's Creed Origins port or something like that We're if even if that doesn't sell very well You can still get a high percentage of sales of another game and when you can offset risks That's what opens the door to keep releasing games So yeah, unlike EA who just shot, you know threw a FIFA 18 out there They didn't have like a guaranteed success story on switch Whereas now Ubisoft has you know what what could be a budding franchise That they could build on top of that will enable them to have you know, take other risks with their other IPs Good stuff. Good. I'm just glad this happened 19% just an insane percent I mean 12% less than the PlayStation 4 what that has 70 million units on the market just man Anyways folks, I am Nathaniel Ruff-A-Gents from Nintendo Prime And if you like this video, you know what to do And if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more Content and I will catch you in the next one