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Ubisoft's stock value has seen a sharp drop this year, more than halving its value compared to last year. In parallel, Ubisoft's founding family, the Guillemot family, is reportedly considering several steps to stabilize the company, including working with Tencent to fully buy all of the shares in Ubisoft.
Ubisoft is currently estimated to be worth around $1.5 billion. Tencent owns 9.2% voting rights in Ubisoft, while the Guillemot family owns 20.5%.
This year alone, Ubisoft faced a number of challenges, including the delay of the introduction of Assassin's Creed Shadows, in addition to several games that did not bring good returns to the company, including Star Wars Outlaws.
In addition to re-privatizing the company, Tencent and the Guillemot family are reportedly also looking at several other methods of re-stabilizing Ubisoft's position and operations. In the video game arena, Ubisoft is seen to have an advantage in the open world game arena which is still challenging for a number of other parties - at the same time making the assets and IP under Ubisoft quite valuable.