[QUOTE="iAtrocious"][QUOTE="charizard1605"]Whereas the moral standing of Activision on this matter is certainly debatable (and I'm not gonna get into that), I think I'll take a minute here to describe how far reaching the consequences of such a move might be. If you all remember, Activision was the first third party publisher to pull the plug on PSP support here in the west. What followed then was a domino effect, as all third party support for the handheld began to die out (except for EA's) until pretty soon, the PSP began to suffer incredibly long droughts that still characterize the system today. This was all in spite of Sony's continued (and some would say dogged) first party support for the system. The reason Activision stopped supporting the PSP was less than expected sales of PSP games for them thanks to piracy and a shrunken userbase, meaning that it was increasingly a loss making proposition for those guys to continue PSP support. The parallels with the current situation are hard to miss- Activision has already voiced its displeasure at the PS3's userbase (back in May 2009 when Kotick threatened to stop supporting the system altogether), and now, as piracy begins to run rampant on the system, AND it begins to compromise the online networks (which, incidentally, is CoD's biggest selling point), Activision will surely be looking at pulling the plug again. Whereas no Activision games might not matter all that much to a vast majority of System Wars gamers, to the average PS3 owner, it would be a big blow. Also, by doing this, Activision will be setting a precedent, and might open the floodgates for a mass third party exodus from the system, like what happened with the PSP. Sony really needs to step in and prevent this from happening- the entire future of the PS3, a system that seems so well set for the future, and one that is only now truly coming into its own, is at stake.charizard1605
That only sounds badass when you're talking about something like the future of mankind or galactic civilization.
Or when we're talking about coffee :P But seriously, Sony's invested millions of dollars into the PS3, which has just now started to inch into the black. If the PS3 ends up losing third party support and begins to falter its newly gained momentum, then we might have one of two scenarios for the future- a) to minimize on losses, Sony might decide to pull out of the gaming market entirely, or b) to minimize on losses, Sony might not invest in R&D as much as they did with the PS3 ever in the future again, meaning that you won't be seeing top of the line systems from them again, only gimped products that will barely be good enough to keep apace of the competition (sort of like how the Sony Ericsson division was until recently). People need to understand the long term effects of something like this. It's like the butterfly wing effect- if you want to keep a tab on the situation, you nip the problem now, when it's still in the bud.What kind of crystal ball to you have? This has nothing to do with losing 3rd party support. This has everything to do with a 3rd party publisher getting pissy about being called incompetent 24/7 by a community that is very vocal about how piss poor their product is.
They are incompetent, and if they don't want to be called out for being crap than they should increase their standards, rather than poo out a barely developed product every year while blowing the whole budget for that product on marketing.
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