Activision Q2 sales slide to $967M, True Crime delayed

I don't want them to cancel True Crime. I reallyy wanntt that game ],:

true cirme delayed ha?? well that was to be expected most good games come in 2011 and that looks a great game,well what the hell still waiting :'(

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i miss true crime.

F**king Activision. lol

hope you are listening activision .

if they r shifting true crime to 2011 . they better be overcoming with the texture pop ups which are common in now a days games. or else it is not worth the wait

This game looks amazing the only thing i dont really like is the foot work for fighting its needs work im a Mixed martial artist and i would love to be able to help the mechanics and speed of the side kick counter which is a single leg takedown its very unrealistic and maybe having enemys coming at you more because i noticed that you would eliminate an enemy and the others would be standing around doing nothing

what the hell. 2011

meh....Coolyfett has not played any of those Call of Duty shooters...all those shoot em up games look the same to Coolyfett. Someone needs to come with something new.

There is nothing sad in this post, their revenues may have fallen but their profits have increased. Reading comprehension people.

"Activision sales", "True Crime delayed"... these together reminded me of that recent Game Informer article entitled "Thirteen Evil Things Activision Hasn't Done Yet". It's a HILARIOUS article. Check it out.

I want Activision to succeed - because that's one more set of games that I can play. But if they can make almost a billion dollars and still be crying broke then they need some serious restructuring! How much crack does a game company need to survive? All these big old expensive game companies really need to start looking at what they are wasting money on and FOCUS on producing games - I bet most of that money is going into pockets and marketing... I'm paying you $60.00 so that you can make more great games, not for you to buy Leer Jets for every Chairman in your company. It's ridiculous and stupid how some of these companies call themselves "doing business".

To Activision: Fix the damn 'auto shut down' bug !!!

They ll solve it. They ll make new map pack and price it $1 trillion billion dollars.

I think Kotick just shat in his expensive slacks.

oh, so sad! i contribute very little to activision. unfortunatley they include blizzard now, so i had to get starcraft. other than that, call of duty and the house that built it can go jump in a lake. with bricks tied to each ankle. blindfolded.

@jojogo2 Its called freedom of speech, And for your information one i didn't pre-order Black Ops and two neither did i pre-order MW2 because i could tell from the get go they would be disappointments only way i would play those games is if i borrowed it off of someone and no other way i can go through my whole entire game-list and i can also guarantee their is not a single Activision title in it.

Well i hope their profits keep on sliding down im sick of Activision hates a strong word but i do dislike them, They just don't care any more what the gamer wants to see. Like for example Call of duty series were great until they implemented all these perks, killstreaks and the radar it just completely takes away any skill, Gameplay just basically getting watered down so any one can just pick up a controller and do good because the game isn't hard at all. I'm honestly surprised they did not do the same for Starcraft 2. To put it simply Activision take a great game and ruin it almost 70% of the time they are just as bad as EA now.

Since when is making $967 million not enough? It really amazes me how Activision shows how greedy they are.

cod and wow will keep making money for activision forever

This sucks, I was really looking foward to playing True Crimes soon.

music to my ears xD

Well, that's a shame - I was looking forward to living a Hong-Kong action cinema movie in a game format before the year was out, but hell - as usual, if it's better this way for the sake of polish - it's better this way. Hands down.

Ah damn they delayed True Crime. I dont want to wait any longer for this game to release after i've heard that it will have a ''real time damage system'' so your character takes visual damage such as bleeding, blood on clothes and even the clothes taking damage...

I guarantee everyone on here who is talking bad about Activision has a copy of Black Ops (The Prestige Edition) pre-ordered right now while they sit back and play StarCraft 2 If y'all hate the company, and the boss, and the games they make: DONT BUY THEM THEN

Oh no! lets donate them some money, they got nothing to eat.

That's too bad that Singularity didn't do too well, as I like Raven as a developer. Not too surprised though; they blew their marketing budget over a year too early and the game took too long to come out after delays, so by the time it did it was a little bit behind technologically. Oh well. P.S. Thumbs up if you hate Bobby Kotick

Getting a beer to celebrate now!!

Thing is, despite my distaste with Activision's greedy ethics, I'll still probably get Black Ops. Eventually, since money is tight these days. But I did enjoy World At War. Considerably. The multiplayer played a large part in that, admittedly, and if Black Ops' MP is ruined in the same way that MW2's was, that'll take away from it straight away.

Oh poor Activision, they came just short of a billion dollars for 3 months of ripping people off with ridiculously priced DLC and shovelware.

bongsyas they didnt lose 967 million, that was total revenue, learn to read

@bongsyas 23 - they didn't lose $967m - $967m was their revenue figure (actual money taken), which was down on whatever last years figure was for revenue for the same period..... what their profit cut was out of that revenue though is anyone's guess - I certainly wouldn't mind 0.1% of it(!) ha ha Oh - and Activision wouldn't feed their children, they'd let them starve while they were busy counting their $967m ;) lol

Man, $967 million. My heart bleeds.

oh no, they lost $967m, how will they feed the kids now.

Guilty confession: I bought both Transformers and Blur. I think they're both a lot of fun, and I wish Blur had a bigger community.

I love delays. Don't get me wrong, I want to play the game as fast as possible, but there have been games that just were short of amazing because the developers did not get slightly more time. I just love how you can tell when finally playing a game, the extra time was well worth it. I'm looking forward to True Crime HK. I'm not expecting it to be the best game this year, but I definitely think it will be fun. I had tons of fun with Streets of LA anyway.

Only 967 M!!!! too bad..poor Activision

Blur is an aawesome game!!! Go buy it now.

Finally!!!! I smell the dawn of a new era!!!!!!

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when it goes down to a dollar, ill be happy. but in full disclosure... i bought the transformers game and loved it.

yeesh, and my ATVI stock is down 7%. get it together guys!

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THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR (DA) MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR COMPANY..... "Neil Armstrong" LOL :)

Increase in operating costs is probably due to legal costs for all the lawsuits they have pending (Infinity Ward, West and Zampella, No Doubt to name a few) and recently lost (vs former defense lawyer and vs Greg Hastings). I seriously doubt it has anything to do with the exchange rate as they claim since they are a US based country. I can see it for the asian countries, but if anything the exchange rate should be helping Activision. Fail with the smoke & mirrors Tippl!

As long as your net profit is strong (i.e. the money you bank) which in this case even went positive, I'd be happy. What we learned today, is that big companies have big egos, and they are in fact quite sensitive- ...please...

See poster "Frimmel" for correct response to this article.

Why are people so obsessed with money now adays? They earn profit, and then they get greedy for more money. Be happy with what you have. Make some decent games for once. The only COD i liked was 4. MW2 took greed to a new level. No dedicated servers on PC meant that IW and Activision wanted money from PC gamers. PC will never be the same as console and Activision soiled themselves from the ORIGINAL platform of the Call of Duty series. I bought MW2 for PC and it was good at first, but now with hackers everywhere, its a terrible game and community. Im happy I have Battlefield 2, Bad Company 2 and I am currently waiting for Battlefiled 3.. You console guys should also get Battlefield 3. Support EA, not Activision.