Activision threatens to "stop supporting" Sony consoles.

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Legend11 said:

Reasonable said:

FKNetwork said:

BladeOfGod said:

FKNetwork said:

Activision will be the first of many, PS3 is a TOTAL disaster, always has been always will be, good on Acitivision I say, about time publishers had the balls to say what they really think, now they have came out and said this others will follow as they won't be worried about causing upset to Sony,

No price drop, hard and expensive to make games for, selling poorly, lowest install base, being outsold weekly by wii360, ps3 japan and u.s weekly sales numbers now at the lowest point since 2007, most multiplatform games STILL run/look better on 360 (ghostbusters anyone), high royalties for publishers, charging publishers for PSN bandwidth, list goes on,

Expect Activision to be the first of many, this will be the ultimate downfall and final blow for Sony, bye bye PS3.........

ROFL, keep dreaming

Keep dreaming about what? nothing I said is incorrect and you know it,

Funny isn't it how all of a sudden ps3 owners don't like activision games anyway so don't care if they stop making games for the platform, PS3 fanboy damage control in full swing lmao....

 

Even allowing for higher royalties, going by the numbers showing over 38% of Prototype sales launch week where from PS3 I doubt Activision is in any way, shape or form in a position it can abandon PS3 as a platform.  Lose approx 35% to 40% of most titles sales and associated profits?  Seems unlikely.

Would that really be the case though?  Every time there's a good 360 console exclusive that is also on PC or might be going to PC I notice a lot of PS3 gamers come in and say they'll play it on PC.  Then there are the people that own both consoles and those that would be pushed to buy another console if they felt there were enough good games to justify buying another one.

CoD4, etc. was on PC and that didn't hurt the PS3 sales.  Other titles are console only of course.  IMHO PS3 fans only say that when a title is 360/PC exclusive or if they genuinely play on PC for those titles anyway.  I doubt many PS3 fans really buy on PC vs PS3 unless it was a FPS or RTS and they prefer those on PC.

While they might save some sales via PC I doubt all the PS3 owners who bought CoD4, WaW, Prototype, etc are going to turn to PC.  They stand to lose a lot of sales and they know it.  And while they could shift focus to 360/Wii on the evidence they still stand to lose a lot.  If they did stop with PS3 releases Wii and 360 owners aren't just going to buy more titles because of that.  And I doubt many PS3 players would turn to a Wii version of CoD, or invest in a 360 if they're diehard.  Whichever way I look at it they seem sure to lose a lot of sales IMO.

Look, if they were really losing that much on PS3 they would jsut go ahead and pull support.  They're not.  I believe they don't want to.  I believe they want more 360s and PS3s out there.  Losing a platform is losing the install base.  There is no signal at all that Activision would prefer anything other than more PS3s and 360s sold not less.  I do believe they'd like better royalty terms and are willing to play rought/dirty, etc. to get 'em.

The PS3 install base is already too large to abandon IMHO.  The sales split is too large for most titles, and for some titles its probably closer to a 50% split - note that while FPS, etc. skew to 360 thanks to US a number of other genres result in more or less 50% split across PS3 and 360 thanks to selling more in Others and Japan.  So in some cases they could be looking to lose nearly 50% of the potential sales.

Neither the 360 nor the PS3 is dominant.  The 360 has a nice lead, but apart from a spurt since the price cut most of that is simply time adjusted, and any big developer like Activision knows that (plus I'll be amazed if FFXIII and GT5 in Japan and Others don't close the gap a fair bit).  Activision must know the PS3 hasn't even peaked yet - heck the 360 probably hasn't yet.

They're simply looking to take advantage of the current situation to try and force some concessions from Sony.  They might get 'em (not the price cut but something around royalties) or they might not.  Whether they do or not they're not going to pull the plug on the PS3 (and I doubt they'll pull the plug on the PSP or PS2 either).