Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has warned that the publisher “might have to stop supporting Sony” platforms.
“I'm getting concerned about Sony; the PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don't make it easy for me to support the platform. It's expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. Games generate a better return on invested capital on the Xbox than on the PlayStation,” he told The Times.
“They have to cut the price, because if they don't, the attach rates are likely to slow,” he added. “If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony. When we look at 2010 and 2011, we might want to consider if we support the console — and the PSP too.”
Kotick, who said recently that he was disappointed the platform holders opted not to announce console price cuts at E3, also noted that Activision had paid Sony $500 million in royalties and other goods last year, which “probably still worked out at 400 percent of the profit they made.”
I never liked [insert name] anyway.
Ah sfags are probably at full battle readiness...
Sony is this gen everybodys bitch...the funniest part is that they have to comply
Imagine MS getting COD exclusivity...it would turn already zombified PS3 into dust
Some people would literally throw their PS3 through the window... :lol
I remember IW saying that there are about 4 million unique PS3 users playing COD4,that would make 2 maybe 3 million sold to consumers.
The funniest thing is that Activision could do it easily...
Its also funny that he mentions PSP,Sony has revealed its new strategy basically a week ago... :lol
I guess that he is not too impressed with PSP Go...
Some would argue that R2 bombed for different reasons. MAG is probably an easier sell too as it's more realistic in terms of setting.
there's nothing impressive about the psp go except the audacity of the pricepoint
awesome
overpriced and underpowered hardware gets the heave-ho
bye bye gamecube 2
Comparing the PS3 to the GameCube is ludicrous; the GCN, after being on the market for three years and floundering, only cost $99.
awesome
overpriced and underpowered hardware gets the heave-ho
bye bye gamecube 2
I didn't want to play Activision's games anyway, too sour.
Yeah i know,but still i thought that Sony did something behind closed doors so that publishers would be more willing to make games for it...
I guess that sudden surge in announced PSP games is more like...ah we will make couple of games for it,but that is all you got,your strategy sucks
3rd party games are an overthought on PS3
Burn and die in a fire PLAYSTATION(TM) 3.
YES
Activision has mega fucking balls but is 100% right.
Sony should be treated like a dog this gen and, partly, is treated like that already: 3rd party games are an overthought on PS3, mostly by developers forced to make them with minimal effort.
Burn and die in a fire PLAYSTATION(TM) 3. You overpriced, slow, worse than 2 times cheaper console piece of shit.
And take your idiotic, rabid fans with you.
awesomeWhy would Activision drop Wii support tho? Aren't the best sellers just PS2 ports?
overpriced and underpowered hardware gets the heave-ho
bye bye gamecube 2
I think we'll see the PS3 slim and a not negligible price cut at TGS. Right before the holidays....awesomeWhy would Activision drop Wii support tho? Aren't the best sellers just PS2 ports?
overpriced and underpowered hardware gets the heave-ho
bye bye gamecube 2
Another new interesting trend I've spotted on that board over yonder is that, apparently, exclusive content doesn't matter after all.
The "overpriced and underpowered" part was a bit confusing.I think we'll see the PS3 slim and a not negligible price cut at TGS. Right before the holidays....awesomeWhy would Activision drop Wii support tho? Aren't the best sellers just PS2 ports?
overpriced and underpowered hardware gets the heave-ho
bye bye gamecube 2
Just in case you're not being sarcastic which I doubt you are, PS3 = GC2.
QuoteWhy dont you go fuck off and die, or are you too busy playing MINDLESS SPACE SHOOTER EXCLUSIVE NUMBRE 2?
you know what a makes a victory parade even better?
Defeated bronze medalist clown tear confette
Enjoy your underpowered Intel based PS4 in early 2011, it's the last sony platform and the last sony mistake.
3rd Party by August 2013
ps3 go
no disc drive, 48gb SSD drive, download only games
Do you really want a Microsoft console being the only choice you have? I hope you enjoy the price gouging that will occur then.
ps3 go
no disc drive, 48gb SSD drive, download only games
Price: $649.99
QuoteWhy dont you go fuck off and die, or are you too busy playing MINDLESS SPACE SHOOTER EXCLUSIVE NUMBRE 2?
you know what a makes a victory parade even better?
Defeated bronze medalist clown tear confette
Enjoy your underpowered Intel based PS4 in early 2011, it's the last sony platform and the last sony mistake.
3rd Party by August 2013
I don't understand you nerds who want less competition in the market place. Why do you want Sony gone? Have they violently raped your wife?
Do you really want a Microsoft console being the only choice you have? I hope you enjoy the price gouging that will occur then.
Atleast Sony isn't gouging the customer for accesories :/.
Do you really want a Microsoft console being the only choice you have? I hope you enjoy the price gouging that will occur then.
Atleast Sony isn't gouging the customer for accesories :/.
ps3 go
no disc drive, 48gb SSD drive, download only games
QuoteWhy dont you go fuck off and die, or are you too busy playing MINDLESS SPACE SHOOTER EXCLUSIVE NUMBRE 2?
you know what a makes a victory parade even better?
Defeated bronze medalist clown tear confette
Enjoy your underpowered Intel based PS4 in early 2011, it's the last sony platform and the last sony mistake.
3rd Party by August 2013
I don't understand you nerds who want less competition in the market place. Why do you want Sony gone? Have they violently raped your wife?
Why are you so quick to vehemently defend Sony? Is Sony your dad?
Seriously, they probably pay a dollar at cost for Wi-Fi, dude.Well the new PS3 model there were some pics leaked of had smaller circuit boards and dies and whatnot right? I think that that would significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing it.
They just need to develop better hardware and not be such idiots.
Do you really want a Microsoft console being the only choice you have? I hope you enjoy the price gouging that will occur then.I think that if the playstation consoles did actually "die", all the sbots would blame MS when Nintendo actually did far more damage to the market.
Atleast Sony isn't gouging the customer for accesories :/.
Seriously, they probably pay a dollar at cost for Wi-Fi, dude.
have you tried using vidzone? hideos interface :yuck
amazing catalogue of amazing games
FFX-2
I wouldn't trade my PS2 for anything.
Are you trying to annoy me with your PS2 hate or are you for real? You are the first person, like ever, that doesn't aprreciate PS2, The King of Consoles.
Ugh, ps3 has dvd playback and a dualshock (now with rumble!) and plays ps2 games and is receiving legacy first party offerings.
God of War 2 is meh, God of War 3 looks infinitely better.name one thing that makes it look "infinitely better".
Atleast Sony isn't gouging the customer for accesories :/.Because a DS3 at $55 is just the right price, lol
God of War 2 is meh, God of War 3 looks infinitely better. PS3 wins yet another one over the vastly overappreciated PS2. Typical Borys, wrong again. Better Wipeout game? Yup. Awesome Sucker Punch game? Totally. Better God of War? Absolutely. And of course, Uncharted 2 shits all over anything Naughty Dog ever did on PS2.
Uh ok. I'm hyped for GoW3 too. PS2 was not overappreciated, man. It is the perfect console. Perfect controller, DVD movies playback, amazing catalogue of amazing games, God of War 1&2, Dragon Quest 8, FFX-2 etc. I wouldn't trade my PS2 for anything.
God of War 2 is meh, God of War 3 looks infinitely better.name one thing that makes it look "infinitely better".
*crickets*
God of War 3 is God of War 2 in HD with more enemies and more violence. Based on what we've seen it's the exact same game.
This makes no sense. There's a major boost in visual quality across the board, there are new scenarios, as well as "more enemies and more violence." How in the hell does that make for "the exact same game?"I don't think he literally means it will be the exact same game, but that it will feature essentially unchanged gameplay and formulaic progression (to which I would agree).
A Nintard that thinks the PS3 is better than the PS2. Well, this is a magical moment.
EmCee, isn't it infinitely more likely that the PS3 is doing poorly in the market because people don't like it for other valid reasons as opposed to the ass-backwards scenario you're proposing?
As to why the hate gets heaped on it on message boards like these, it's the same reason why Nintendo catches half the shit that they do: the fans of the company are as annoying as pure uncut fuck, and about as stupid as a bag of stale dogshit.
Mass Effect is comiing to PS3 and Gears is rumored also::)
The 3rd dropped off the charts faster than Killzone 2.
I regretted my ps3 for a while but I'm appreciating it finally.Same here. I purchased a PS3 in Feb for KZ2 and I returned it less than 24 hours later. I wasn't prepared for the system to suck as much as it did.
I don't have smileys on EB Mobile so I assume its the rolling eyes smiley in which case I say to you that it was told behind closed doors that Mass Effect 2 WILL be on PS3.I guess EB mobile doesn't show bolded text either. I rolled my eyes because you think that Gears will be on the PS3 someday because of a rumor.
I regretted my ps3 for a while but I'm appreciating it finally. Of course its for movies, psx, and ps2 games with no ps3 games in sight which makes the whole affair absurd.The 3rd dropped off the charts faster than Killzone 2.
Halo 3 sold more than KZ3 last month, 2 years after its release. :chicken
How did the system "suck"? That makes no god damn sense.sure it does.
So because of one game you wrote off the console...wow
360 has a lot more problems than just faulty hardware; the PS3 has even more problems.
360 has a lot more problems than just faulty hardware; the PS3 has even more problems.
I'm struggling to come up with "a lot" of problems that the 360 has outside of the hardware. The Guide lag sucks, but it's mitigated by the fact that the Guide is much better than anything else the competition has. There's not many platformers, but that's a dying genre outside of Mario. What am I missing here?
Media anything, other than playlist functions. The new and old UI of the 360 is shit annoying, unless you get a wild boner from advertising. The NXE is a big improvement, though, but the media player shit is as bad as it has always been. Also, the fact that you can't actually use it as a standalone media system but instead need a computer with compatible software is annoying as hell.
Charging for live, ludicrous accesory prices, durability, customer support, dirty tactics regarding credit cards, there's just as many "problems" as there are for the PS3
My PS3 is better than the PS2 I had. I mean it plays PS1, PS2, and PS3 games. And it makes PS1 and PS2 games look better. How does that not make it a better console?that probably does make it a better console overall actually. It really is too bad that they dropped backwards compatability. The PS3 I purchased is a 40gb, so no bc for me :'(
The PS3 I purchased is a 40gb, so no bc for me :'(
well the top two best games of the generation are either a PS3 exclusive or better on PS3
Media anything, other than playlist functions. The new and old UI of the 360 is shit annoying, unless you get a wild boner from advertising. The NXE is a big improvement, though, but the media player shit is as bad as it has always been. Also, the fact that you can't actually use it as a standalone media system but instead need a computer with compatible software is annoying as hell.
I don't care about media functions outside of Netflix. That's why I have a PS3. What does it do wrong as a GAMING CONSOLE?
the good sfag name.:teehee
Burnout?
Only a person who has no clue what they're talking about would jump to the conclusion that I spend all day typing this when I do it on commute or while at work.
QWERTY keyboard ftw.
I have just beaten GoW2. Wow, great ending and what a rush of super-hard boss fights near the end - Sisters of Fate and Zeus... Zeus was a bitch, killed me many times.
Only a person who has no clue what they're talking about would jump to the conclusion that I spend all day typing this when I do it on commute or while at work.
QWERTY keyboard ftw.
360 has a lot more problems than just faulty hardware; the PS3 has even more problems.
I'm struggling to come up with "a lot" of problems that the 360 has outside of the hardware. The Guide lag sucks, but it's mitigated by the fact that the Guide is much better than anything else the competition has. There's not many platformers, but that's a dying genre outside of Mario. What am I missing here?
I was somewhat happy when new xbox dash was released and it appeared faster, but over time it got worse. Everything needs to load on the thing. I want to buy a game or download the trial and it still needs to load the option to select. Even games stored on my hard drive take way too long to load in the menu.I thought that was only happening to me, phew. Whenever I try to compare achievements with peeps on my friends list, the dash locks up for a good 20 seconds. ANNOYING.
But things like paying for gold (just the playing online part) are still bad.
Motorstorm > Gran Turismo > ForzaThose three games aren't even remotely similar.
Games that justify the PS3 existence imho:
-Wipeout HD
-Uncharted
Beyond that there really arent many reasons to own one.
Xbox 720 and Natal are completely different things, one has nothing to do with the other. Natal is just an add on that might be bundled in its own package with a standard or maybe slimmed down 360. PS2 isn't comparable to anything either, it was in it's own league. Not supporting it would have been fiscal suicide.
What I'm saying is that in two or three years when we all have Xbox 720 and/or WiiHD kits, all publishers will have to make a choice. They will need engineers to support these new platforms because getting in on the ground floor is key. Will they go to the expense of hiring all new people, or will they shift people away from existing product? I think that is what that dude at Activision is contemplating. No one is dropping support now, but when the new machines come around they might. Mind you I doubt it would be a full fledged pull out, keep some key franchises that make major coin and ditch the rest. Now it's likely this is all saber rattling as others have said, but it's also possible that they projected out a few years, estimated where they thought PS3 pricing would be in two or so years and didn't like what they saw, hence his comment.
for all of this talk of sony's "awesome" first party lineup, i only own three ps3 exclusive games: infamous, mlb 09 the show, and hot shots golf oob. the rest of their first-party lineup has been shite, and i see nothing on the horizon beyond mlb 10 to change that. seems the majority of gamers agree, what with sony's bottoming sales
I can't believe you of all of the enlightened gamers don't own at least 2 copies of the follwing, triple AAA, PS3 exclusive titles that have rocked the gaming world!QuoteLittleBigPlanet
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Killzone 2
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Resistance 2
WarHawk
Valkyria Chronicles
Resistance: Fall Of Man
MotorStorm
Buzz! Quiz TV
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
Heavenly Sword
Ridge Racer 7
Folklore
Time Crisis 4
All of those above offer some of the best gaming experience in the last 10 years! You can't enjoy them on 360 BTW, only the power of CELL(TM) SPU and BLU-RAY(TM) makes it possible.
I was somewhat happy when new xbox dash was released and it appeared faster, but over time it got worse. Everything needs to load on the thing. I want to buy a game or download the trial and it still needs to load the option to select. Even games stored on my hard drive take way too long to load in the menu.I thought that was only happening to me, phew. Whenever I try to compare achievements with peeps on my friends list, the dash locks up for a good 20 seconds. ANNOYING.
Oh yeah, I also hate how they removed the feature that allowed you to immediately view a friends profile when they hopped online and you pressed the guide button :'(
Problem is you have to clean it constantly. :(
When I got down to around 30GB I had to clean it almost every other day. It is a glitch with installing games to your hdd on a 120gb hdd. MS needs to fix this.