Console games are interesting because they always seem to come in waves. That is, since the technology can't be upgraded at the pace of computers, console systems come and go every three years. Next year will be one of those peak years, and so UbiSoft is aiming square at the console market, and you'll see that in a ton of RSE ports to console platforms, especially the X-Box. First of all, Urban Operations has YET to be distributed into the European market, something I think has a lot to do with the UbiSoft acquisition. I'm speculating, but I'm thinking that UbiSoft was interested in getting the rights to distribute both Urban Ops and Covert Ops.
Distribution does pay well.
I struggle to, and if you look at their home page, it's any wonder. RSE's target market and UbiSoft's target market are entirely different. Even some of their unsuccessful titles, like Force 21, were lauded by truly hardcore strategy simmers. It will be a challenge for UbiSoft to effectively manage these differences, at least from a business sense. The plug-ins are proprietary tools, and releasing something like that is extremely unprecedented.