Key Notes from Activision Press Event

[War]

It seems Activision just had some kind of press event where they announced a bunch of stuff including Call of Duty going to new genres, Guitar Hero PSP, StarCraft II in 2009, and a new Transformers and Spiderman game in 2010.

This is all in a giant liveblog format, but I'll update the OP much better as I read through all this more closely.

Source: http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210427...by-end-of-2009

Edit 1: Still have more coming but I thought people might want to see some of this a bit earlier.

* Call of Duty Series Heading To New Genres
* Guitar Hero PSP (Will Feature Drum Component)
* StarCraft II Out In 2009
* New Transformers In 2010
* New Spiderman In 2010
* New James Bond In 2010
* New Tony Hawk In 2010
* Shrek 4 (In 2010?)
* StarCraft II Beta This Summer
* New European Targeted Music Game IP That May Or May Not Be DJ Hero
* Either Guitar Hero 5 Or Guitar Hero Van Halen Releasing September 1st (Not Clear Which)
* Activision Believes Physical Interfaces (Peripherals) Are Now Greatly Important, Cites DJ Hero And Tony Hawk: Ride
* Activision's CEO Talks About Rising Game Prices (Due To Peripherals) And How They're Still A Good Value
* Mike Griffith: "Simply put, on Call of Duty, each year has been better than the year before."
* Call Of Duty Poducts Have Totalled Over 35 Million Units
* Activision Wishes To "'monetize online gameplay even further,' starting with more downloadable content."
* StarCraft 1 Has Sold More Than 11 Million Copies
* Diablo Franchise Over 20 Million Copies
* WoW Now At 11.5 Million Subscribers [Note: It Has Been For Quite A While, Seems To Have Finally Peaked]
* "Griffith says the concept of Blur falls in between the hardcore tuner sims and just-for-fun arcade racers. Mario Kart in particular shows the potential for a well-crafted mainstream racing game. But where Mario Kart was limited to one system, Blur will be multiplatform, Griffith notes. He throws to a trailer with the tagline that the company wants it to do to racing games what Call of Duty did to shooters."
* The next question is on how to monetize the Battle.net platform. Morhaime simply responds, "I'm not ready to talk about that today." [Note: Oh God]

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[dinofan01]

In other words

Actiision CEO: "Expect us to continue whoreing out and milking all our franchises."

Seriously spin offs? Every point mentioned sounds like a method that doesn't have the consumers value in mind. Saying high priced peripherals are a good value doesn't make it true Activision.

 

[Pizzaroo]

Guitar Hero PSP with tiny drums?

 

[B-Blue]

boring

 

[Maverick_z]

Call of Duty to new genres. Interesting. maybe going towards Halo Wars.

Or something different?

 

[nutella]

guitar hero psp? really? why not slow down? the guitar hero cow's milked dry.

 

[Satangel]

Call of Duty to new genres. Interesting. maybe going towards Halo Wars.

Or something different?

Yeah, I can see that happening

Probably an RTS on the consoles, crap.
Why not stay a shooter, keep doing what you're good at.
That Blur sounds pretty good too, hopefully they can make it happen (also on PC)

 

[kalmis]

Woo new Transformsformers movie next year again!?!
What a disappointing list of games.

 

[Zerrix]

Call of Duty to new genres. Interesting. maybe going towards Halo Wars.

Or something different?

Yeah, I can see that happening

Probably an RTS on the consoles, crap.
Why not stay a shooter, keep doing what you're good at.

Because most companies want to aim at every kind of people, look at Halo Wars.

 

[Domination]

Mario is the best example. Period.

 

[Satangel]

Hopefully they release a shooter game and an RTS game aside.
And hopefully Infinity Ward makes the shooter (although I doubt that

)

 

[Islay]

No Diablo 3 news, thats lame, but at least star craft 2 is coming.

 

[Trolly]

Eugh, yeah, sounds like they're just milking their franchises. The only new IP is Blur, and even that doesn't sound particularly exciting.

 

[Joey Ravn]

No Diablo III news? No even a tiny update? Sorry, not interested.

 

[Gaisuto]

I'll believe the StarCraft this year news when it happens.