Don't you think swimming in coins would hurt?
Two and a half weeks after launch, Activision is boasting 3 billion dollars worth of sales of Modern Warfare 2. That’s “B” as in “boy” or holy f^cking “bananas” (by the way, good job MW2 boycotters, you sure showed them).
But what happens when you give the world’s “most evil video game publisher” a blank check to do whatever the hell they want? What does this mean for the rest of us? Let’s look in the future after the jump!
You take a economically depressed global climate and still manage to put up those kinds of numbers? Looks like every other publisher out there was right to slip all of their releases to first quarter 2010.
Anyway, with this kind of global mandate from the masses, how big do you think Activision’s e-penis going to get now? We have all unfortunately filled the war chests over at Activision with MW2 sales. So who cares if Band Hero, Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk: Ride were all buggy rehashes of series that should have had a bullet put between their eyes years ago? So what if DJ Hero sold like ass? Sequels for all!
Now that Activision chief Bobby Kotick is now swimming around in his vault of coins and jewels like Scrooge McDuck (Google that sh&t, kids), let’s see a Kelly Slater surfboard title using that piece of junk that came with Tony Hawk: Ride! Why not have a Guitar Hero: Nickleback? Pre-order a copy today and we’ll throw in a copy of Guitar Hero: Winger as our gift to you!
And what about a Modern Warfare 2 sequel? To the most successful video game franchise of all time? Good lord, Activision is going to release sequel after garbage-covered sequel, without a doubt. Bobby Kotick is going to whore out this franchise to be gangbanged by Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and any other developer house that can slap the words “Modern Warfare” on a plastic case until the world stops making games. You laugh now, but wait six to seven years when they’re rolling out Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 6: Future Wars 3, complete with a task force of Scottish-accented space marines and a crazy plot twist that you’ll never see coming!
What about a Michael Bay summer blockbuster? 300 million dollars is chump change now to Activision, and Michael Bay has shown that he can turn just about any god awful script into a candy-coated work of art if he uses enough explosions and semi-naked Megan Fox scenes! Coming to a theater near you in 2012!
Will we see anything good come out of Activision being given the largest payday in video game history? Maybe on the bright side, we will get to see this whole “Ghost/Gaz” side story developed as MW2 downloadable content.
Well, here’s to hoping.
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Perhaps they will use their not so newly found wealth to budget smaller more creative original IPs.
The above paragraph is the rambling of a fool.
hmmm, more of a sentence really. My fool comment is completely vindicated.
tHE FRANCHISE MADE 3 BILLIES, not just mw2.
CALL OF DUTY THE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY MICHEAL BAY COMING TO CINEMAS 2012, 12TH DECEMBER! I hope this is right becasue then when it does come out, we’ll be fine as the world is suppose to end then, wait a minute…..shanghai you might just have discovered how the world ends, a mass suicide as nobody wants to watch a call of duty movie either that or the tension of the movie literally tears the earth apart.
Shit. You’re right Eao. Well, missed that little factoid.
STILL, little good can come from all this money lining Activision’s pockets.
I used to have the comic book that that top picture is from. Neat.
Don’t downplay my achievement as a boycotter. If it wasn’t for me, they would have made $3,000,000,500 of me and my friends.
That kinda sounded like I had 300 million friends who would have bought it, think smaller, like 5 (seeing as it costs 100 for me).
You would think they’d take this money and use it to develop an even better game (sound ridic huh?). You know, research and the whatnot, technology, testing, time, it all takes cash. But I suppose not. You’re probably right.