Activision Threatens to Drop PS3 Support

[Nmil-ek]

Big meh to that own approximatley 0 games by activision or any of its little sub developers, and yeah whining about the ps3s price is pretty well petty shop around better, I bought a 40 gig version for only around £150 then just hooked it up to my 300 gig external hdd there you go cheaper than any stock store models and more storage use your heads alittle.

 

[Laughing Man]

Holy Cow, I want to be your best friend, right here, right now.
Why?
Because I think for the first time in all my years of surfing the internet, YOU are the first person to not only concede a point, but to admit he was a.) wrong and b.) didn't really research his post before making a statement.
It takes a REAL MAN to own up. You've got my 100% respect from this point on

Nice, it also takes a real man to not instantly grab the fact that someone admitted they were wrong and then use it as an excuse to act like a complete asshole. Also my statement regarding FPS was.... hmm, a tad all sweeping. Yes certain FPS games do indeed work on console but they are few and far between and like yourself, given the option, I would take the PC version of an FPS any day over it's console breatheren.

 

[Drakulla]

Activision is only threatening to drop PS3 support because they want to sell the consumer a peripheral for every title they come out with, and how many people will drop $400 or $500 for a PS3 and $200 for Guitar Hero or $200 for DJ Hero or $200 for Tony Hawks Ride. They aren't dropping PS3 support, they just want to sell the consumer more cheap crappy peripherals.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

Holy Cow, I want to be your best friend, right here, right now.
Why?
Because I think for the first time in all my years of surfing the internet, YOU are the first person to not only concede a point, but to admit he was a.) wrong and b.) didn't really research his post before making a statement.
It takes a REAL MAN to own up. You've got my 100% respect from this point on

Nice, it also takes a real man to not instantly grab the fact that someone admitted they were wrong and then use it as an excuse to act like a complete asshole. Also my statement regarding FPS was.... hmm, a tad all sweeping. Yes certain FPS games do indeed work on console but they are few and far between and like yourself, given the option, I would take the PC version of an FPS any day over it's console breatheren.

I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic or a jerk. I really meant that.

Most people I've ever encountered on an internet forum would sooner eat their own testicles than EVER concede a point, let alone admit they were wrong. You on the other hand did JUST that, you admitted you may have been in error, and for that I gave you props.
Sorry if you took it the wrong way. It still makes you cool in my book.
I know it's hard to accept a compliment on the internet, them being so rare, but still, major props.

 

[Laughing Man]

I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic or a jerk. I really meant that.

Yeah I am prettu sure that you were being genuine as was I. See that's the prob though everyone is so used to everyone being an ass whilst online it's often hard for people to see when folk are being geniune. I am being geniune about what I meant. It is indeed rare, the number of folk that would have acted like a smug asshole when I said I was being an imbecile could number in the millions but very few would ignore that opportunity.

Sorry if you took it the wrong way.

As my point above indicates there is a lot of mis trust in what is often said by folk whilst on the internet. Having re read my post I can see how it may come across as a bit snippy. Which is daft because when I first wrote it and read it it seemed alright but... hey that's the madness of the internet ain't it?

I know it's hard to accept a compliment on the internet

What with me being so modest and all, now that WAS me being sarcastic

 

[Tartarga]

doesnt seem like a very smart move to me, if there is a price drop it will boost sales and god of war 3 is going to drive lots of ps2 owners to get ps3s which would give activision a chance to increase their fanbase

 

[blood77]

I dont think people really realize what games Activision publishes, as I see a lot of "I dont own any activision games anyway"...

You might want to check this list and remind yourself that while you might not THINK you own activision games, chances are a good chunk of your games you DO own have their stamp on them somewhere..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_games

a few notables:

Call of Duty series
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Just about ANY marvel game, including spiderman
Tony Hawk
They now are part of Blizzard, makers of WOrld of Warcraft
Prototype
Alien vs. Predator
Gun
Guitar Hero
Quake series
Wolfenstein
Tomb Raider
Tenchu
Transformers
James Bond
the Crash Bandicoot series
and my beloved SPyro games (yes I love spyro, go to hell)

Not that I expect anything of this... Sony is pushing their 10 year cycle plan onto game publishers as if they still dictated the "gaming industry". They apparently haven't realized that video games are a billion dollar a year industry that has grown beyond the Playstation 2.
Companies are going to go where the most profits are, and could care less about how profitable a console is for a specific company or how badly Sony needs to attract a larger base. They arent going to wait around for the Playstation 3 to become 'profitable' 4 years from now. They want to sell games NOW, and if that means leaving the PS3 behind, then that's exactly what they, and other publishers will do.
Sony has some hard decisions to make...

Ok, well I don't really see how they are going to make money by not working with sony, then again I am not a business man so maybe I just don't understand it.

But personally, I was a little steamed that there was never a Tenchu release for the PS3.

 

[SteveDave]

This is pretty bad news for sony. Though some of you wish to deny the true impact of what Activision has said consider this: COD has the same pull as GTA and the biggest reason the PS2 was so successful was because of exclusives such as this. Now with COD seemingly on the verge of being a Xbox exclusive the whole western market might go with it.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

This is pretty bad news for sony. Though some of you wish to deny the true impact of what Activision has said consider this: COD has the same pull as GTA and the biggest reason the PS2 was so successful was because of exclusives such as this. Now with COD seemingly on the verge of being a Xbox exclusive the whole western market might go with it.

They wouldn't dare drop the ps3. That is a potentially loss of somewhere near 60million USD.

 

[SsilverR]

so what .. no franchises i like belong to them

 

[SteveDave]

so what .. no franchises i like belong to them

Well you are not everyone.

 

[Stevedave00]

so what .. no franchises i like belong to them

Well you are not everyone.

More importantly, How will this effect other developers?
Something tells me if activision does this and then turns a profit because of it, More will leave.

 

[SsilverR]

so what .. no franchises i like belong to them

Well you are not everyone.

**clap clap** way to point that out einstein .. 2 things you should know about me ..

1. i practically have "capcom" tattooed on my scrotum

2. i couldn't care less about "everyone" assuming you mean you and everyone you think agrees with you

so go ahead quote .. or not .. either way i'll love every second of not replying to any half arsed comeback you and google search manage to come up with

 

[Stevedave00]

so what .. no franchises i like belong to them

Well you are not everyone.

You stole my name D:

 

[SteveDave]

so what .. no franchises i like belong to them

Well you are not everyone.

**clap clap** way to point that out einstein .. 2 things you should know about me ..

1. i practically have "capcom" tattooed on my scrotum

2. i couldn't care less about "everyone" assuming you mean you and everyone you think agrees with you

so go ahead quote .. or not .. either way i'll love every second of not replying to any half arsed comeback you and google search manage to come up with

You misunderstood my point. What I was getting at is that Infinity Ward's COD (who is owned by Acti) is one of the top selling video game franchises in the industry. Even COD WaW, a sub-par shooter, was top five in sales during the holiday season. Loosing this franchise would be a huge blow to Sony and increase sales for the 360.

Now if you think you can actually have discourse without your vagina bleeding yellow and blue go ahead and respond.

 

[Credge]

Loosing this franchise would be a huge blow to Sony and increase sales for the 360.

I don't follow.

CoD comes out on just about every platform. If Activision dumps support of one of those platforms people will dissipate across all of the other platforms.

Maybe.

To assume that every person who buys an Activision product on the PS3 will automatically move to another platform, or even buy another platform, is bogus. 10% is a pretty optimistic number.

It would be a safer bet to assume that people on the PS3 will just move to other alternatives. Play Guitar Hero? They'll get Rock Band. Play CoD? They'll grab Resistance or Killzone. Play Tony Hawk? They'll grab Skate.

It's pretty bogus to assume that Activision is stupid enough to move potential sale over to their primary competitor (EA). It's even more bogus to assume that Activision fans are loyal enough to buy a console that costs as much as all of the main franchises they offer.

 

[SteveDave]

Loosing this franchise would be a huge blow to Sony and increase sales for the 360.

I don't follow.

CoD comes out on just about every platform. If Activision dumps support of one of those platforms people will dissipate across all of the other platforms.

Maybe.

To assume that every person who buys an Activision product on the PS3 will automatically move to another platform, or even buy another platform, is bogus. 10% is a pretty optimistic number.

It would be a safer bet to assume that people on the PS3 will just move to other alternatives. Play Guitar Hero? They'll get Rock Band. Play CoD? They'll grab Resistance or Killzone. Play Tony Hawk? They'll grab Skate.

It's pretty bogus to assume that Activision is stupid enough to move potential sale over to their primary competitor (EA). It's even more bogus to assume that Activision fans are loyal enough to buy a console that costs as much as all of the main franchises they offer.

Sure they'll rely on their other shooters more but you still take something away from them. Casual gamers do play COD for I know many. Also COD has more pull so not every PS3 owner who likes Activision games will buy a 360 but some will and it will equate in the decision of any new customer shopping for a console because it is such a well known franchise.

I see your point in that it wouldn't necessarily cripple Sony but it makes their competition much stronger.

 

[HyenaThePirate]

Loosing this franchise would be a huge blow to Sony and increase sales for the 360.

I don't follow.

CoD comes out on just about every platform. If Activision dumps support of one of those platforms people will dissipate across all of the other platforms.

Maybe.

To assume that every person who buys an Activision product on the PS3 will automatically move to another platform, or even buy another platform, is bogus. 10% is a pretty optimistic number.

It would be a safer bet to assume that people on the PS3 will just move to other alternatives. Play Guitar Hero? They'll get Rock Band. Play CoD? They'll grab Resistance or Killzone. Play Tony Hawk? They'll grab Skate.

It's pretty bogus to assume that Activision is stupid enough to move potential sale over to their primary competitor (EA). It's even more bogus to assume that Activision fans are loyal enough to buy a console that costs as much as all of the main franchises they offer.

Thats a BIG amount of gambling you suggested there..

How many more people prefer COD to Resistance? To Killzone?
Many would argue Guitar Hero is the better and more profitable series of the 2 than Rock Band.
And Skate Vs. Tony Hawk... thats a hard call.. Skate had a little originality going for it, but Tony Hawk games are the master of that craft.
But you are right about one thing... almost any game you can name, there are alternatives available on the opposite system, each with a dedicated fan base.
SOme like metal gear, some like splinter cell.

But like something someone else said...
If Activision makes this decision and it turns out to be profitable for them, with the current nature of the gaming industry and the economy being as it is in the West, I wouldn't bet against other companies making this consideration and possibly following suit.
We got a saying down here in Texas..

All it takes is one cow to start running to stampede a herd..

 

[Stevedave00]

My only question is why is activison being so aggressive about it?
I can imagine many companies who may or may not have the same findings,But it is a surprise to see them say it so publicly