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Berstuck on 11 February 2011

Its a shame about True Crime, i thought it was actually looking quite promising.



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Mr Khan on 11 February 2011

It does make Activision's market position look all the weaker, if you forget about Blizzard, at any rate



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Mr Khan on 11 February 2011
jarrod said:
trasharmdsister12 said:

Activision still has that partnership with Bungie that should be profitable and (semi-)annual CoD's will keep them in decent shape.

There's also a major Spyro revival planned, a new Spider-man game, more new IPs in the works and of course their real cash-cow (Blizzard).   Activision's going to do fine financially, and putting Tony Hawk & Guitar Hero to rest (for awhile) was probably a smarter move than anything.  Shame about True Crime though.

Here's that Spyro revival

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/11/skylanders-spyros-adventure/1#c33033480

Only announced for Wii (though shaders on the graphics might indicate something more), but it's a toy tie-in, albeit looking like a high-quality toy tie-in



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jarrod on 11 February 2011
Mr Khan said:
jarrod said:
trasharmdsister12 said:

Activision still has that partnership with Bungie that should be profitable and (semi-)annual CoD's will keep them in decent shape.

There's also a major Spyro revival planned, a new Spider-man game, more new IPs in the works and of course their real cash-cow (Blizzard).   Activision's going to do fine financially, and putting Tony Hawk & Guitar Hero to rest (for awhile) was probably a smarter move than anything.  Shame about True Crime though.

Here's that Spyro revival

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/11/skylanders-spyros-adventure/1#c33033480

Only announced for Wii (though shaders on the graphics might indicate something more), but it's a toy tie-in, albeit looking like a high-quality toy tie-in

I'd bet 3DS at least.  360/PS3 probably too, it is Activision after all.  And probably a cheapo DS game also.



theRepublic on 11 February 2011
jarrod said:
theRepublic said:
disolitude said:

People complain that companies milk sequels...then the say "guitar hero killed" because its missing a year. Make up your mind people!

Just cause its missing 1 year release doesn't mean its killed.

500 people are losing their jobs.  Sounds dead to me.

I thought this thread would be a lot bigger for some reason.

VV is only losing 50 people of the 500.   I think GH is more likely just taking a year off...

Yes, VV is "only" losing 25% of their people, but they do other things besides Guitar Hero.  Not much, but they have made other games.  Activision is probably putting them on another licensed project.

It would be odd if Activison announced that they are discontinuing the franchise, and disbanding the Guitar Hero business unit just to bring it back a year later.



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jarrod on 12 February 2011
theRepublic said:
jarrod said:
theRepublic said:
disolitude said:

People complain that companies milk sequels...then the say "guitar hero killed" because its missing a year. Make up your mind people!

Just cause its missing 1 year release doesn't mean its killed.

500 people are losing their jobs.  Sounds dead to me.

I thought this thread would be a lot bigger for some reason.

VV is only losing 50 people of the 500.   I think GH is more likely just taking a year off...

Yes, VV is "only" losing 25% of their people, but they do other things besides Guitar Hero.  Not much, but they have made other games.  Activision is probably putting them on another licensed project.

It would be odd if Activison announced that they are discontinuing the franchise, and disbanding the Guitar Hero business unit just to bring it back a year later.

Looking at their track record, I don't think it'd be that odd.  If GH came back though, it wouldn't simply pick up where they left off, there'd be a major rethink for the franchise.  I wouldn't rule that out...



Edgeoflife on 12 February 2011
jarrod said:
trasharmdsister12 said:

Activision still has that partnership with Bungie that should be profitable and (semi-)annual CoD's will keep them in decent shape.

There's also a major Spyro revival planned, a new Spider-man game, more new IPs in the works and of course their real cash-cow (Blizzard).   Activision's going to do fine financially, and putting Tony Hawk & Guitar Hero to rest (for awhile) was probably a smarter move than anything.  Shame about True Crime though.

Poor, poor spyro his good name is going to get very tarnished very fast, and I don't see any new IP from activision being a good game...



Aion on 12 February 2011

Good for GH. But come on True Crime would have been great!!



 

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jarrod on 13 February 2011
Edgeoflife said:
jarrod said:
trasharmdsister12 said:

Activision still has that partnership with Bungie that should be profitable and (semi-)annual CoD's will keep them in decent shape.

There's also a major Spyro revival planned, a new Spider-man game, more new IPs in the works and of course their real cash-cow (Blizzard).   Activision's going to do fine financially, and putting Tony Hawk & Guitar Hero to rest (for awhile) was probably a smarter move than anything.  Shame about True Crime though.

Poor, poor spyro his good name is going to get very tarnished very fast, and I don't see any new IP from activision being a good game...

Yeah... the Spyro reveal's been awful to say the least.

 

I don't understand why Activision didn't just go to Insomniac once the 3rd party word got out, and pay them big bucks to do a AAA Spyro revival.  Or hell, go to one of the Insomniac offshoots like High Impact.  Same deal with Crash actually, I think a new Crash from RAD would probably get a lot of people interested in the series again...



Edgeoflife on 13 February 2011
jarrod said:
Edgeoflife said:
jarrod said:
trasharmdsister12 said:

Activision still has that partnership with Bungie that should be profitable and (semi-)annual CoD's will keep them in decent shape.

There's also a major Spyro revival planned, a new Spider-man game, more new IPs in the works and of course their real cash-cow (Blizzard).   Activision's going to do fine financially, and putting Tony Hawk & Guitar Hero to rest (for awhile) was probably a smarter move than anything.  Shame about True Crime though.

Poor, poor spyro his good name is going to get very tarnished very fast, and I don't see any new IP from activision being a good game...

Yeah... the Spyro reveal's been awful to say the least.

 

I don't understand why Activision didn't just go to Insomniac once the 3rd party word got out, and pay them big bucks to do a AAA Spyro revival.  Or hell, go to one of the Insomniac offshoots like High Impact.  Same deal with Crash actually, I think a new Crash from RAD would probably get a lot of people interested in the series again...

Because Activision doesn't care about the quality of the game just the sales and the name will sell it more then the devs will, most people will run out and buy the game just cuz it's spyro, everything in Activisions hands will get milked until it dies then thrown away