Good old Bobby Kotick, chief tie-wearer at Activision, is once again opening his mouth.
“The price on platforms today has still not gotten down to mass-market price points,” said Kotick in the interview, picked up by gamesindustry.biz. “I think when you’re in the economic circumstances that the world has found itself in, there really is a difference between a $199 game system and a $299 game system.”
While Bobbie may have a point, what I note here is the total lack of admission that its the games that are woefully overpriced. You may spend $299 on a system but at least the system will be with you for many years and severs many purposes, from playing music to streaming movies to acting as a free Internet phone. Your $60 mediocre game will last a week or two.
So how about you operate like you talk, Bobbie, and get the price of games down. Last time I checked, consoles keep lowering their prices while games steadily climb upward. It won’t be long before games are more expensive than the system its played on.
On a side note, Bobby made $14.9-million last year…not bad for a guy who creates nothing, especially when his company lost $104-million during the same period. Fail upwards, Bobby!
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Activision are nothing more than hypocrites. Read an article where they are considering adding a subscription fee to their COD games like they have on warcraft. I'll sell the damn games and refuse to play any other they produce. As if 60 bucks for the game, 50 bucks for a xbox gold membership, + price of dlcs, aren't enough for those greedy bastards. How about they find some way to require a birthdate to keep all the 8 year olds off multiplayer in a mature rated game? Oh but there goes half their revenue. At least they supposedly patched the care package glitch. Maybe next patch will be improving the host migration? I'm not going to hold my breath though.