Activision Signs Up for Rev, PS3 Duty
Tony Hawk and Call of Duty publisher confirms it now has games coming for all three next-gen consoles.
When publishers describe their next year as one of "caution", as Activision did in a conference call this week, people start to worry about stagnation. But when being cautious involves taking its big guns to the Revolution and PlayStation 3, things become more interesting.
Call of Duty 2 is one of the most popular games on 360Activision joins a growing crowd of developers making games for Sony and Microsoft's new machines, GameSpot is reporting. The company will release one Revolution and three PlayStation 3 launch games by spring 2007.
While it hesitated to name exactly which games are coming to either console, it bears noting that Activision is home to such series as Call of Duty and Quake and games based on the X-Men, Spider-Man and Tony Hawk franchises.
(During the same conference call, Activision announced that there's a new Tony Hawk game coming sometime during the next year - Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam. There are no details for the game yet but an Xbox 360 release is assured.)
Why is Activision sticking to what it knows? The main reason is the poor support for Gun, which was released for current consoles and Xbox 360 last autumn. Despite the game ending the year as the No. 1 game based on a new franchise in the US, it still failed to sell as well as its parent and Tony Hawk developer Neversoft had hoped.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
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