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Following Bobby Kotick’s extraordinary claim that his company, Activision Blizzard, may stop supporting the PS3, Sony has declined to volley back public mud and has instead offered a calm and measured response. "PlayStation has tremendous momentum coming out of E3,” said spokesperson Patrick Seybold, and we are seeing positive growth …
Read More »Activision boss threatens to drop PS3
The boss of the world’s biggest games publisher has issued a remarkable warning to Sony – cut the price of PS3 or Activision could the plug on its PlayStation development. Speaking in an interview with The Times, Bobby Kotick stated: I’m getting concerned about Sony – the PS3 is losing …
Read More »Kotick: "We’ll do better on Wii"
Bobby Kotick, the chief executive of Activision Blizzard, has admitted that his firm used to see Wii as a secondary platform compared to its publishing activities on Xbox 360 and PS3 – but that’s all about to change. Click here to read the full story on CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »Bobby Kotick comes under the Forbes spotlight
Leading US business journal Forbes has published a detailed tribute to the personal success of Activision and Blizzard CEO and president Bobby Kotick, explaining how the entrepreneur used the EA publishing model to build the now biggest games publisher in the world. The article reads: When Kotick stumbled across his …
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