Well to be fair sony does need a real price drop and not one of those clearance sale an older ps3 model to be replace with a newer one with less features.

Anyways, Activision are late to the party, man. Millions of us have been boycotting the PS3 since its launch... ;0p

The only thing I need activision for is Modern Warfare 2... after that they can rot.

HA HA I BET MICROSOFT IS PAYING SONY TO KEEP THE PRICE OF THE PS3 SO HIGH HA HA HA THAT ACTIVISION GUY CAN GO EAT A DICK HA HA HA HEY FUCK OFF NO YOU FUCK OFF COCKSUCKING FANBOYS YAY CONSOLE WARZ!!!!11~!~`1~!@21!@!!1

killatia at 06/19/2009 10:01
Well to be fair sony does need a real price drop and not one of those clearance sale an older ps3 model to be replace with a newer one with less features.

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You mean like MS? Release an "Arcade" version, or perhaps remove anything that could be considered an "extra" from the main SKU and start charging EXTRA for them on top of the console? Then start charging for PSN membership and paying millions to have "available on PS3" on the end of every multiplat game advert?

Wank. Me. Off.

Sony's PS3 sales are hitting their targets. Activision should have known in advance what these targets were and should have said something sooner had they had a problem with them.

PS3 is not the "everyman-console" it's the elite, for those who want more than an Xbox offers. For those who want a console that will still be alive in 5 years and one that uses media and hardware that will still be cutting edge in 10. Not a glorified PC with millions of... wait for it, wait for it.... 12 year olds with parents on welfare shouting racist profanities on their headsets and a million generic FPS games.

The fact that when all is said and done, and you're sitting down to wank over some online Halo via WiFi, with a controller that doesn't go through batteries like a fucking rampant rabbit on speed - you've paid as much as a PS3 costs anyway?

Spoken like a true douche Kotick. "They don't make me as much money as I want them too and it's too expensive to develop games on a system which I've already got an engine for, so I'm just going to drop them"

That's basically what Kotick just said. There's absolutely no reason to stop development for the PS3 when almost every game they release has an already made engine. CoD? Check. Guitar Hero? Check. See a pattern?

How's THIS Mr. Kotick? YOU drop the prices of your older games, ($40 for CoD4 on PC is ridiculous), THEN you can ask Sony to drop THEIR prices.

Short of EA dropping Madden for PS3, this is pretty much the biggest blow that could be dealt to Sony. Uncharted and Metal Gear are great and all, but the Saturn had some kick ass first party games too...

I think I can safely say that Kotick is the most HATED game industry figure of our day. Activision = The New EA. And even more crazy: EA = The Good Guys Now

ok , so i'm a ps3 only guy (not a fanboy). let's see if ican determine why there games aren't selling...

a quick look at there list of games:

yearly raping of the call of duty franchise ( not interested, sorry)
yearly raping of the tony hawk franchise ( not interested, not with a plastic skate board either )
multi-yearly raping of the guitar hero franchise (not interesetd )
movie games... not interested
then there's prototype ... (good job, but i'm going to rent it)

so what's left?
marvel ultimate alliance 2, i'm excited about this, but idoubt it's going make any kind of impact saleswise...

so the real problem here is that actision keeps slinging out more of the same, and ps3 owners have better things to play... i mean they release their one original game ( prototype ) 2 weeks after infamous...

From what I've read in a few other places the PS3 still makes Activision money, again for emphasis Activision's games on the PS3 does turn a profit for the company. Yea maybe not as much as a Wii shovelware title, or a 360 game, but its still a profit none the less. Also yea wastedyears response is the best. If they dump something that does actually make money I'm sure the shareholders won't be upset at all right? I think its just all corporate bullshit. While he may have somewhat of a point from his point of view, he should consider what would happen if he did do this. No money from PS3 software sales...less income for the company...stockholders get pissed...he resigns for fear of getting booted out...new CEO appointed...announces new partnership with Sony. All because he didn't want to do something that was a little challenging and maybe a pain in the ass to make his company money. Gee where has this guy been living the past forever years. Everyday at work most people do something hard or challenging that might not even be their job in order to keep their job and make their company money. Yea I'll give him a big middle finger as well.

Wow I don't even have a PS3 and this guy's pissing me off. I understand the PS3 is hard to develop for but to actually say something like this is really dumb considering people alreadly complain how high the prices for their crap is. If this was some indie developer I wouldn't have a problem but they have the time and the money to sell better games for slightly less. Maybe his games would sell better if he didn't try to less the same games with better graphics every two seconds! At least Nintendo let's me miss them.

LOL thanks for the laughs guys so many angry people in here and it seems like your going to boycott well that helped the angry l4d fans so I can see it working here to.

"Kris, you must be a fucking retard. I gave him a reason why Sony didn't walk all over me with the price of the PS3. Don't talk to me like your a tough guy on the internet."

jack your doing what you told him not to do, this place has gone so far downhill.

Activision Blizzard is a games company, not a game charity. If their margins are relatively good on the PS3 and PSP, then they should make PS3 games. If their margins aren't relatively good on the PS3 and PSP, then they shouldn't.

It is not about emotion or making certain gamers happy or unhappy or how it "plays" on Destructoid. It's about carefully managing billions of dollars of other people's money.

@Uniquenamehere
That was my point originally, Midgetsnowman made a perfectly normal, even innocuous comment, but because this boy is a blinkered fanboy his response included

"I think it is well worth the money asshole " and ended on "Fuck off"

Granted my response wasn't the most mature but I am getting really sick to death of people not being able to say anything because some jumped up little hypocrite fanboy is going to jump on them due to the fact they have bizzare feelings of affection for a corporation.

theyre gonna release undeniably the best shooter of all time (COD:MW2) a tony hawk gameand more guitar hero....

sony has killzone, rockband and skate to hold it down so hey shouldbe ok

Activision's pretty bold to say something like this and it's kinda uncalled for, but this isn't all on Activision. Sony's created this situation fro themselves through brutal mismanagement of the PS3 since it's initial design stages. Disregarding the consumers completely to push some pointless proprietary chip and their new high-def format no matter how much it cost the slobbering Sony early adopters, who Sony have already claimed will buy anything from them no matter the price (Said this with the PSP Go too), and you've got their current situation. Sony's been a huge dick this whole generation, and while they've made it up to me with great software, I do think they need a kick in the pants so they realize that the way they've exploited their fanbase continually is unacceptable. They were only able to do it because they're Playstation, I don't think anyone can imagine the 360 or Wii launching with all the problems the PS3 had and coming out alright. If PS4 is anything like PS3 I really hope they do fail because competition is one thing, but I'm not interested in maintaining an abusive platform for the sake of competition, Playstation or not.

There's no way they'd do this. While I agree that more people usually buy their multiplatform games on 360, there has to be a large amount of PS3 users who would end up pissed that they couldn't play major Activision titles/money-grabs. Would Activision really cut out such a large potential audience? I think not.

people keep saying it is a nail in the coffin for sony but it is pretty stupid move for activision too since between no multiplatform and the dick moves that they have been pulling with studios it isn't too hard to imagine a ton of studios pulling up stakes and moving to another publisher

Business POV: This could be huge. Activision is a cash cow. If they cut off that steady cash supply, It could be huge losses on both ends. So chances of this actually happening are very slim.

My POV: I don't like Activision and I don't have a PS3 (yet) so I could care less.

They also publish on pc which alot of you seem to of forgotten or just don't realize.

*facepalm*

That facepalm was brought to you by fanboys on both sides.

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