Ubisoft Developing Ten Titles For Project Natal, Four to Five For Sony Motion Controller

In a morning call to investors, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot broke the news that the company is devoting some serious resources to developing titles for Microsoft's Project Natal peripheral and Sony's PS3 motion controller.

"We have around ten games that will come out for Natal during the first six months of its release," said Guillemot. "And we expect four to five games for Sony's new motion controller."

While he stressed that those plans could change in the next 12 months, as of now it looks like Ubisoft is betting that these new peripherals will make major waves with consumers when they are released. While no specific titles were revealed, Guillemot did say that over 70 percent of the titles in development would be new IP, and that a majority of them would be aimed at the casual games market. This news is especially interesting in light of Ubisoft's $117 million operating loss reported for the first half of its financial year, something Guillemot partially blamed on slow sales of its Wii titles. Perhaps the company hopes that it can succeed with the Microsoft and Sony motion controllers where it's failed on the Wii.