Epic Games’ Mark Rein has said Activision’s Bobby Kotick is ”just frustrated” he can’t squeeze more sales from the PS3 install base, Sony has had ”a difficult year”.
The giant ”had to do what they had to do” to bring in a profit, they’ve got financial issues and price cuts would have ”made their situation worse”. Long-term Sony are ”going to be just fine.”
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick made the remark that he and his fellows at the publishing big house might drop PlayStation 3 support, to which Rein called ”a weird comment” to make.
”People talk about, ‘The Wii has run away with this generation.’ I don’t think that’s true. Nintendo’s made a lot of money and the software developers on that platform are scratching for seconds,” noted Rein.
”Microsoft is clearly a big market for third-party games. PS3 has a smaller installed base, but it’s still millions of users. I’m sure Bobby still sold three, four, five million copies of Modern Warfare.”
The Epic boss then gave his two cents on Kotick’s veiled vent: ”I think he’s just frustrated in that he hasn’t sold seven or eight million, like he has on 360. The truth is Sony has had a difficult year and I think they had to do what they had to do to try to be profitable.”
”They have their own financial issues to solve and lowering the price of the console would probably have made their situation worse. They will get around to it in their own good time. If you’re willing to look at this as a long-term play, they’re going to be just fine,” he added.
Rumours are strong that a PlayStation 3 price cut is due later this year, with the likely launch of a slim line console version in the works for release too. Are you with Rein, or Kotick?
Source: 1UP
