Activision is threatening to drop support for PlayStation 3 (and PSP, but let's focus on the big target here) if Sony doesn't drop the price of their hardware soon. As the world's largest third-party publisher, Activision wields power. If Activision made good on their threats, what would be the impact?
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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Killzone 2>Activision
* Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen -- June 23
* Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs -- June 30
* Wolfenstein -- August 4
* Guitar Hero 5 -- September 1
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 -- September 8
* Singularity -- TBA
* Cabela's Outdoor Adventure -- September 22
* Tony Hawk: Ride -- October
* Bakugan -- October
* Modern Warfare 2 -- November 10
* Chaotic -- November
* Guitar Hero: Van Halen -- Fall
* Band Hero -- Fall
* Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2009 -- TBA
Honestly I don't even want to think what would happen to PS3 sales if people found out these weren't coming to PS3.
I will already be enjoying the great exclusives and other games the PS3 is offering. The only good thing on that list is MW2, and MAG or Killzone 2 will keep me satisfied in the FPS genre. Activision can really shove it up their ass, it's almost as if they're gaining no money whatsoever from the PS3.
Will you look at that if they dropped support we wont get to play Cabelas big hunter OH NO
if i had a ps3 and found out i would be stuck playing kz2 and missing the superior mw2 I would sell that console. activision says dance sony now get to dancing.