Jesus!

This is actually horrid news for everone.

Remember what happened to the Dreamcast after EA pullled out? If Activision pull out of this then I'm afraid we won't see much of the PS3, which would be a great loss because the machine has bags of potential.

Honestly, what a stupid thing for him to say.

No way in the world is Activision going to burn bridges with Sony so easily. The Square-Nintendo fallout shows how bad an idea it is to underestimate other companies.

Sony will not stop until they have a market leading console, they've done it before, they'll do it again. Let's see what happens when they do.

Ahh, that with Blizzard who havent published a single PS3 game. As for attach rates he mentions, the PS3 has a higher attach rate than the Xbox so quite what he's talking about I don't know.

He's actually gone mad with power.

Blatant attempt to get publicity as the big boy of the game world.

Oh, and he's succeeded in doing that. Well done everyone!

Stupid or not, he does have the authority to do this, yes? Then Sony should listen to him, and in fact the entire industry.

Fact is, I know a vast number of publishers who are putting pressure on Sony to drop the price of the PS3. The relationship with 3rdPs will not get any better, at all, in any way, until Sony takes care of this gargantuan elephant in the room.

"Mad with power"

Sounds like it, thuogh lets not forget that Actv-Blizzard have that kind of sway, madman at the front wheel or not.

Imagine what would happen if the PS3 had no more Tony Hawks, no more Call of Duty, no chance for Warcraft and Starcraft and all the other amazing Blizzard games that will end up on consoles. It would be a devestating move.

Then again, 4 million Call of Duty games were sold on the PS2, so maybe he is just telling porkies.

4 million Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare games were sold on the *PS3*

"Sony must do what they will probably do anyway or I'm out ...so now if it happens I look awesome and powerful"

Nice to see all of us in agreement on this.

Kotick's made a fool of himself.

He's just a fool for the way he's going on about it.

Now if he did say that they were going to stop starting new projects for PS3 as of today, that would be showing some balls and I'd respect that.

What a KOtiCK....

To be honest the games im most excited about on the PS3 are all exclusives with the excpetion of MW2.

11 Comments in a row without a fanboy! A new record!

Or, a new low?

I say Bobby Kotick needs to shut his trap. Why don't you drop the price of your games if you think Sony is charging too much? Every other game company has said they're doing better on the PS3 than the other consoles. Activision must be doing something wrong.

there's one!

Post 15.

We'll use that to keep count from now on.

hmmm..... Kotick. That was very silly. Yes - understand your frustration with the high dev cost - but you're speaking nonsense about the returns element. Me-thinks any action along those grounds will get him ousted. I think he's just trying to make waves possibly with the good intention of highlighting the PS3 market standing and dev costs - risky gamble... but it might just lever the PS3 to come down onlilcense cost etc.....

@13: you need to brush up on your fanboy spotting skills, there are more than one in the first ten, can't you see them?

Not sure what happened here. He's merely stating facts that it seems some of us can't accept.

The PS3 has much lower attach rates for software than the 360 and that's a fact, dispite someone here trying to claim otherwise. The console is very difficult and therefore expensive to program for, another fact that people seem to conveniently be trying to ignore.

All activision are saying is that Sony need to address these problems pretty quickly or it becomes non-cost effective to support their platform.

Yes this is bad news for Sony but, equally, the ball is in their court.

Where? Think your fanboy-o-meter is a litle to sensitive! ;)

As P Dwyer says, the PS3 attach rate "fact is false", i.e. fanboi post #3.

Whenever a developer does this sort of stunt, either Sony put a counter press release out (thankfully those fanboi rallying days seem to be over), give the developer some support or do something actually positive to the whole developer side of things.

The last time there was a big developer & retailer pull out was the game cube and look how quickly that fell under. With the current economic climate & general knee jerk atmosphere, if the rumour mill turns into some geniune action by bug publishers/developers it could very easily spiral rather than be another flash in the pan.

Hopefully it won't go that way as the lack of competition won't bode well for the next console generation, even if it does hinder game development on this generation.

Sony are in financial trouble so can't really afford to drop the price of the PS3....problem is they can't really afford not to either.
The REAL money is made from software sales so publishers support a console that'll have high software sales.
The console that sells the most units will probably sell the most software unless there is a killer console in the mix. The PS3 doesn't have the luxury the PS2 had in that regard, it just isn't good enough.

"Every other game company has said they're doing better on the PS3 than the other consoles."

Who exactly are these companies? I've never heard or read anything of the sort. Quite the contrary.

PS3-lovers have been claiming that the overpriced piece of garbage PS3 has potential for years. And believe me, it is hilarious reading comments from people on here who act like they know more about the gaming industry than the most powerful CEO in that industry. Maybe it's time to admit the PS3 has been a total flop. If it weren't for the Blu-Ray player, no one would buy it, and even with it, hardly any does buy the thing. The PS3-exclusive games are horrible, the console didn't have a decent good game for months and months after its release, its online service is an absolute joke and the thing is way too expensive. Quick, name two PS3 exclusive games. Yeah, most people can't even do that.

And the guy that claimed every other developer has claimed their games are doing better on the PS3, I can only say, yeah right. No one believes that, and I challenge you to prove it. The PS3 sales numbers are terrible. It is hard to "do better" with your games when no one owns the console to play them.

Another hilarious comment is this one:
"Nice to see all of us in agreement on this.

Kotick's made a fool of himself"

Oooh, I bet he's scared. Fans of the least owned-gaming system on the planet are mad at him. Oh no.

And another award winner is the guy who claims Kotick should drop the price of his games. I don't even no where to begin when dissecting that stupid comment. Dropping the price won't matter if no one owns the console to play the games because that console is waaaay too expensive. Secondly, why drop the price when his titles sell just fine on the XBOX 360, a console that more than ten people own.