I know, I have it.

But still, with metallcia attached to it, you'd think it would sell more. Anyone that wants to start a rock abnd has a metallica as an influence. Thats a fact... Well maybe not Fallout Boy.

Not really surprising at all, Metallica has spent most of the last 10 years completely alienating everyone who ever liked them, through a combination of their anti-file sharing stance and horrid, horrid albums.

Activisions big boss is an idiot. Not supporting sony in 2010. Well that is a big lost for activision since half of there profits come from sony. If they don't support sony then they wouldn't be making enough money and then someone would buy them off and that someone will show activision how to do business.

So they'd be throwing away roughly 33% of the HD sales????


Seems pretty stupid to me...

Erm this is a flawed theory sir, first of all it wouldn't be you who'd be mowwing the lawns, you'd be at the top! You'll be expanding to a new neighborhood but instead of forcing the older neighborhood to pay an extra $5 you'll be stating in a newsletter that you'd like to raise the price for some reasons and would like the opinions of others as those lawns still generate you profit, the fact that you've discovered a new neighborhood does not mean that you've started to make a loss out of the older one.

Yes you'll make less of a profit theoretically if the traveling costs etc in this is the same but we'll just keep this simple :D

You won't stop mowwing for the neighborhood that only pays you $20 as it generates you profit(Just as it did earlier on)!! With the $25 zone you'll just be expanding.

With Sony they pay some more royalties per game but they still profit enough from them to carry on, they just want more profit by encouraging them to raise the prices of the systems so they can sell more of their software.

I'm not sure why the PS2 is a part of the discussion. I don't believe it was included in the platforms Activision is threatening to drop.

I think the most worrying thing is, what does Microsoft do with this bit of information? Do they use this to leverage a deal with Activision over some titles? Will Activision have a more open stance to taking a deal for timed exclusivity on a big time title, or even full on exclusivity if MS puts money on the table? If MS is aggressive enough, then I can see them wrangling something away from Sony, while they are in the good graces of Activision and Sony isn't.

c'mon. It's political manouvering. Nothing more. He wants to pay less royalties, he wants Sony to eat margin so he can make more. In the end he'd be happy if MS and Sony gave away their consoles so that he can sell more titles.

I really don't think he has any 'stick' with which to beat Sony and I'm pretty sure they know it.

He simply can't drop support for CoD/MW and GH on Sony platforms - the 360 and Wii wouldn't make up the slack, he'd simply be giving away profitable sales and harm the overall sales of such titles. I doubt Infinity Ward would see Activision as a great publisher for them if they see sales of their golden goose dropping by a huge amount.

He could drop support for smaller titles, but so what? Most of those aren't going to sell huge amounts and won't make a blind bit of difference to Sony.

Sony on the other hand could remove (I presume unless someone can find anything that says otherwise) lucrative movie tie-in's for Sony owned movies like Spiderman. If they did that, and he dropped smaller titles, I'd be willing to bet it would be Activision that would lose more than Sony.

Personally I think he's hoping that Sony won't want such public statements kicking around and will consider giving him some favorable treatment regarding royalties and consider accelerating their plans to drop PS3 price.

MS may be able to get some small advantage out of this but it seems minor. They are already paying to get exclusive maps, etc. for titles like MW2 and even if they got a few minor exclusives with the smaller franchises those, IMHO, would scarcely be worth having.

so in conclusion: SHUT THE FUCK UP ACTIVISION!!!

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Lol - I guess that covers it succinctly.

They will never drop PS3. Just making alot of noise.