Activision Threatens To Stop Supporting PS3

Sony should be worried. I sure as hell would be.

No, this isn’t a delayed April Fools joke. Bobby Kotick, the man in charge of Activision, said in an interview with The Times (Not the Contra Costa Times. Some other Times. I think it might be a little bigger.) that unless Sony changes some things his company may stop supporting their consoles. In his words:

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.

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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 we look at 2010 and 2011, we might want to consider if we support the console — and the PSP too.

That’s pretty serious considering Activision is the largest video game publisher in the world. It probably won’t come to that — I can’t see them not lowering the cost in the next year or so regardless of what Kotick thinks — but if I were Sony I would definitely be a little nervous about this. If this inspires some bravado in EA and they make a similar statement it could seriously hurt console sales.

(And please, people, this is news about a statement by an executive, not a personal attack against you for preferring a certain faceless multinational corporation that doesn’t care about you outside your wallet. Let’s try to be adults and not turn the comments into some petty console flame war shouting match. Have some dignity.)

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Fear the Xbox 360 and the Wii (lol). It's pretty impressive that the largest Publisher would say this. Anyways, everyone go run and get an Xbox.

Thoughts?