and movie games like MIB or the Fantastic four

Prototype 1 was mediocre
Two sold poorly in comparison. Shame.......

Man stupid decision by Activision. Radical may have lost a little money with Prototype 2, yes it might be time to side line the IP. Though I still loved the IP I cant see it making the jump to next generation the budget would need to be far higher then sales could support. However Radical was one of Activisions most talented development teams at nobody was better at open world sand box games then Radical. Activision should have assigned them another license either an internal one or a license from another source. The studio was amazing at what they did and they simply should have been directed to another IP.

What a waste of a perfectly good studio. If only they had been independent then someone could have rescued them!

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Sad news, but not surprising given that it's Activision.

And (un)fortunately it's a clear symptom of the problems that Activision will face in the future. As some have already said they are focused on the immediate revenue and are forgetting the long term business. Add the fact that they have closed so many talented studios (see Zim's list) and you get the perfect recipe for disaster if one of their franchises starts to fail.

And that makes me wonder, how much of the total revenues of Activision-Blizzard come from Activision now? I'm sure that it's less than what it used to be.

and then when CoD starts to fade they will buy another talented up and comming team and IP and start again, Activison don't create studios and IP they buy them. Infinity ward they brought after CoD was a success, same with Neversoft with Tony Hawk, same with Guitar Hero. Only 3 of their current 12 studios were founded by Activision. 

Also with the addition of Skylanders and CoD elite Activision actually pulled ahead of Blizzard last quarter due to the decline in WoW. This quarter Diablo 3 will raise Blizzard ahead, and we shal see if Mists of pandaria can counter CoD Black Ops II + Skylanders Giants + Transformers.

WoW will have to lose its popularity too before that happens. I wouldn't be surprised to see Actvision transition focus to mobile games before that happens though.

They've already shown how they handle their ties to the development studios that make their games with the whole Infinity Ward episode, so this really shouldn't come as a surprise.

Well and for Bungie's Destiny and Blizzard's project Titan to flop as well.

It really isn't a huge surprise to me. The first Prototype did pretty decent in sales and it was a good game. The second is doing about half as good if that.

Now days its getting harder and harder for these studios/publishers to make much profit on games unless they have huge sales. Gaming fans demand more elaborate games with a lot of gameplay because if not the game will get crapped on by the community and so it should. So developers costs have gone way up. If you have a game that sells 1 million+ copies and its squeal sells around half that...in most all cases expect changes with that studio whether its a closing or a sell off.

Thanks for the sales info.

I see their business model and, imho, it's a very poor one. Mostly because they will reach a point where they won't be able to purchase the next big thing because another publisher will buy it before them or because the developers of said game have had bad experiences with them and will prefer to go with another publisher.

And even if they decide to go with Activision, they will probably do what Bungie has done: secure the rights of the IP so that Activision can't do what they have done with CoD.