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Exactly how many studios has Activision actually closed this generation? THIS many

Hankies at the ready people, it's a lot

Words: on July 5, 2012
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  • john-a-tron3000 - July 5, 2012 2:45 a.m.

    Proof that Activision needs to be taken back and the managers kicked out to work in fast food! We have endured this atrocity for too long gamers!! We must march to the gates of Activision with flags, forks, and torches to kill the beast before more casualties happen! I feel blizzard are next on this list

  • Thedigitalg - July 5, 2012 3:31 a.m.

    Why would they get rid of Blizzard? Ever? With WoW, Starcraft and the fastest selling PC game of all time, Diablo, it would be incredibly moronic to shut down Blizzard. People seem to be forgetting that Activision is a company with a sole aim of making money. Not all game companies are mystical altruists who's only goal is spreading love and joy across the world...

  • Draconilla - July 5, 2012 3:46 a.m.

    Except Nintendo, they are just that, but with the occasional investor uprising to sate and occasional trip up.

  • Thedigitalg - July 5, 2012 3:53 a.m.

    I did say 'Not all...', and I agree! I get the impression that head staff at Nintendo are genuinly concerned with how much enjoyment people get from their products. Miyamoto in particular always looks incredibly happy.

  • Draconilla - July 5, 2012 4:15 a.m.

    Lol yeah I should have rephrased that, "Nintendo I would say is one of the top exceptions" sounds better lol. Miyamoto, Reggie, even Iwata always seem to care more about having fun, in other words they know what gaming is all about

  • BlueScorpion91 - July 5, 2012 5:02 a.m.

    The having fun part is for the consumer to do. The people who developer has fun making the game and getting it released, but is under constant stress, while the publisher has only eyes for money. And people need to rememeber that there is no difference between Activision and Take2, EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Capcom, SEGA, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Namco-Bandai, I could go on all day.

  • Hobogonigal - July 5, 2012 5:34 a.m.

    How many studios have Nintendo closed in the same time that Activision has in this article. Same with Sony for that matter. I wouldn't really consider them the same.

  • BlueScorpion91 - July 5, 2012 6:41 a.m.

    They are the same. And the main reason platform holders don't close down studios is the fact that if they did, they be shutting a dev that could make more first-party games, and the more games a console has then the more people will buy that console. If Sony didn't make consoles anymore, you would hear of them closing or "merging" a lot of studios, same goes for Nintendo and Microsoft.

  • taokaka - July 5, 2012 6:51 a.m.

    What about zipper and bigbig studios, they were closed this year by sony.

  • Sinosaur - July 5, 2012 8:49 a.m.

    Actually, Activision has put out at least 8 Call of Duty games in the last 5 years. If portable Mario games count, then so do portable CoD games, of which there have been three in the last 5 years.

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