Ubisoft has released a report detailing its fiscal Q2, which ended in September, and there is some good news and some bad news.

Starting with the bad news, the internally-developed 1404 A.D., known in Europe as Anno 1404, has been delayed into Ubisoft's 2009-2010 fiscal year, meaning the game will release sometime after April 1, 2009. The French publisher also pushed back an "as-yet unannounced franchise" into the same window.

As for the good news, Ubisoft is successful enough after half of its fiscal year to raise its guidance up to 1.05 billion euros ($1.35 billion) from 1.02 billion euros. The announcement comes on the same day that Sony lowered its profit estimates by a staggering 38%.

Ubisoft further broke down its past six months of sales by platform, revealing that thus far, Nintendo DS software has accounted for 38% of its fiscal sales, followed by PlayStation 3 at 20%, Xbox 360 at 14% and PC at 10%.

Meanwhile, Wii software sales made up 11%, with PSP and PlayStation 2 sales representing the smallest figures--3% and 2%, respectively.

Ubisoft today announced it is working on a sequel in the ANNO series, with ANNO 1404 scheduled for a March 2009 release on PC.

Previous entries in the strategy game series including ANNO 1503, 1602 and 1701, all published in North American regions as A.D. games. Development will again be handled by what was formerly known as Sunflowers, now a Ubisoft studio. Set in the Orient, ANNO 1401 will feature a new interface, bigger islands and worlds to explore, a modifiable sandbox mode and other features new to the ANNO series.