Activision Threatens to Stop Supporting Sony Consoles Altogether

[Shirosaki]

Activision Threatens to Stop Supporting Sony Consoles Altogether

Written Friday, June 19, 2009 by Dan Webb

In a similar vein to the post earlier regarding Splinter Cell: Conviction being an Xbox 360 console exclusive, Activision chief, Bobby Kotick, told The Times that they may just stop supporting Sony altogether.

"I'm getting concerned about Sony; the PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don't make it easy for me to support the platform. It's expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. Games generate a better return on invested capital on the Xbox than on the PlayStation."

Ouch ... but wait, it gets worse for Sony.

"They have to cut the price, because if they don't, the attach rates are likely to slow. If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony." When asked when Kotick replied, "when we look at 2010 and 2011, we might want to consider if we support the console — and the PSP [portable] too."

Double ouch. Stern words from the Activision chief there, but goes a long way to answering the questions I posed this morning.

I suppose if they do stop supporting Sony ... PS3 owners will only miss out on a plethora of music cash ins and licensed crap. Yes, I just went there. I suppose they will miss out on the Infinity Ward Modern Warfare titles as well though, which is a sad day for PS3 owners if that ever happens ... although I can't see it happening, especially with a price cut on the console rumoured for the fall. Still, can't say I've ever seen those sort of threats thrown around before to one of the console creators.

Source.

Interesting but daunting stuff for any Sony fans out there. The only Sony technology I have is a PS2 covered in dust in a box somewhere, so I don't think this will affect me too much.

 

[Zjuggernaut]

Re: Activision Threatens to Stop Supporting Sony Consoles Altogether

Ps3 got f**king owned. Activision are great.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Activision Threatens to Stop Supporting Sony Consoles Altogether

Activison are a decent company and publish a lot of titles for many consoles and lots of big multiplatform titles so this would be a major blow for the PS3 if it happened.

 

[Ithan]

Re: Activision Threatens to Stop Supporting Sony Consoles Altogether

Call of Duty and Guitar Hero series, even though I hate both, would be a pretty big blow to the Playstation.

 

[Zarkes]

Re: Activision Threatens to Stop Supporting Sony Consoles Altogether

^finally a person who doesnt like playing with that childs toy.
Yeah Ps3 is just getting one blow after another. I dont own one so im fine, the only time I ever felt I wanted one was for Soul Calibur 4 which was actually multiconsoled and had star wars so Id never touch it anyways.

 

[Daemon300]

Re: Activision Threatens to Stop Supporting Sony Consoles Altogether

Haha. In their brain! I'm soooo happy right now. *Splat* (I met her on Xbox Live)

Btw. Check it out on youtube, it's sooooooo funny XDDDDDD