Activision threatens to "stop supporting" Sony consoles.

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JEDE3 said:

NJ5 said:

Wow, read this:

http://www.edge-online.com/news/activision-ceo-“we-might-have-to-stop-supporting-sony”

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.”

 

According to Activision's 2008 FY report (pdf), PS3 publishing revenues were $241 million. There's probably some confusion here, but maybe Activision is not making that much profit from the PS3.

 

http://www.edge-

online.com/news/activision-ceo-“we-might-have-to-stop-supporting-sony”

Wait, does that say they paid more for royalties than they made? Yeah right. maybe the reporter mis heard the dude. 5 million sounds a lot like 500 million right?

Dunno, but if 400% of the profit made = $500 mil, then the Activision profit was $125 mil for the year, which sounds par for the course for a good publisher year.