Catlana said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Dallinor said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Dallinor said:
It's not thinking highly of themselves, Sony can just see the empty threat for what it is. |
Yes....a multi-billion dollar publisher making empty threats. I love it. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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It's an attempt to put pressure on Sony to cut the price of their machine, which would lead to more HD consoles on the market and a larger potential customer base for HD Activizion games.
It's in their interest for a PS3 price cut to occur, and as such, Bobby Kotick is using his position to try and persuade Sony to play their hand.
What you might see, in the worst possible situation, is Activizion cutting down on the amount of games appearing on the PS3. Their bread and butter staples like Guitar Hero and COD will not be going anywhere though.
Lurker said:Sony wouldn't be laughing if they did pull support. Those COD players would go and get a 360
This whole threat is made in the interest of making money. Activizion will not throw away millions of potential sales.
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Activision threatened Sony because of lowering attach rates.
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Still I do not see Activision passing or either of Guitar Hero or COD for the PS3. I do see less ports of lower end games and no exclusives thou.
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"that absolute worst-case scenario, that would mean no Call of Duty for Sony consoles. No Guitar Hero for Sony consoles. No Tony Hawk, either. It probably won't ever come to that, of course, but Kotick's words are still worth noting. After all, when was the last time you ever saw a third-party publisher so openly threaten a major platform holder?"- Luke Plunkett, Kotaku.com
Activision is the worlds largest active third party publisher. I ask again.....do you believe they wont cut off everything in a worst case scenario? I agree that this is a frightening sight, but Sony dug themselves a hole here and they better fix it....and fix it fast.
