Predictions for 2009

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TheBigFatJ said:

You're wrong. No RTS game and no MMO ever even came close on console to how well they've done on PC. I'm talking about generating more than 20x as much money on PC as they ever, ever have on consoles. It looks like you got your stats wrong. WoW alone has generated 1.5 billion dollars.

So why bother playing with the toys? It's a waste of Blizzard's development time. Blizzard will have more sales in Korea alone for SC2 than it ever would have on all consoles combined. Several time as many sales.

The Wii, at least, could control an RTS game. But the 360 and PS3 have control that's too dumbed down to handle anything past a basic shooter.

And blizzard's games will be around and played well after this current generation of consoles is gone. Starcraft from 1997 is still played by thousands daily online. Warcraft 3 is played by hundreds of thousands online. WoW is played by ten million online. It was around before this generation of consoles and it will be around after.

WoW alone will make more profit than the PS3 in its lifetime.

 

Well.....read my text first. I'm not saying it has to be an RTS, Blizzard can do much more then that. And stop crying about WoW, I know that! BUT that can't last forever and a company should allways look for the next thing.

But there is more potential on making money if you go multi. As I said, Call of Duty Modern Warfare has sold more copies in 1 year then any other Blizzard game has done in a lifetime (same goes for GTA IV). With Blizzards great name they could easily make a console version of Diablo 3 and sell twice as much as they would on PC alone.

And I honestly think that the power of Blizzard is so great so if they wanna do a RTS game on console with Mouse and Keyboard support neither Microsoft or Sony would stop them.