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vivster on 07 February 2014

For some reason Activision always manages to get some money shitting IPs on their hands. Next big thing is Destiny which will probably make billions.

Either that is luck or they have some real clever businessmen up there.



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Landguy on 07 February 2014

My kids are always asking for me to buy this. Now that I have a WiiU, I may consider it.



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zorg1000 on 07 February 2014
vivster said:
For some reason Activision always manages to get some money shitting IPs on their hands. Next big thing is Destiny which will probably make billions.

Either that is luck or they have some real clever businessmen up there.

I dont think its luck, they have been doing this for like 20 years now, have 1-2 really big franchises at a time, milk the hell out of them for 5-10 years, once they die replace them with a new big franchise.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, Skylanders, next up is probably Destiny



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zorg1000 on 07 February 2014

No wonder Nintendo wants to start focusing on NFC games. A Skylanders-esque Pokemon or Nintendo mascots in general would likely made a ton of money.



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benji232 on 07 February 2014

Activision just somehow keeps coming up with these multi billion dollars cashcows every couple years. They just have that magic touch I guess lol.



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vivster on 07 February 2014
zorg1000 said:
vivster said:
For some reason Activision always manages to get some money shitting IPs on their hands. Next big thing is Destiny which will probably make billions.

Either that is luck or they have some real clever businessmen up there.

I dont think its luck, they have been doing this for like 20 years now, have 1-2 really big franchises at a time, milk the hell out of them for 5-10 years, once they die replace them with a new big franchise.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, Skylanders, next up is probably Destiny

Yeah but how come that their franchises are always Mega franchises?



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radishhead on 07 February 2014

LOve it or hate it, thereis no denying that Activision have hit some sort of goldmoine with the SKylanders series! Now if only Nintendo released something simialr with Pokemon xD



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zorg1000 on 07 February 2014
vivster said:
zorg1000 said:
vivster said:
For some reason Activision always manages to get some money shitting IPs on their hands. Next big thing is Destiny which will probably make billions.

Either that is luck or they have some real clever businessmen up there.

I dont think its luck, they have been doing this for like 20 years now, have 1-2 really big franchises at a time, milk the hell out of them for 5-10 years, once they die replace them with a new big franchise.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, Skylanders, next up is probably Destiny

Yeah but how come that their franchises are always Mega franchises?

No idea but I doubt its luck since they have been able to repeat this formula for so long



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