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New Call of Duty skipping PC
Activision CEO reveals that next Call of Duty game won't be for PCs, but rather for next-gen consoles; likely COD spin-off.
By Tim Surette, GameSpot Posted May 4, 2006 5:27 pm PT PC gamers have long held onto certain franchises as their own, with popular series like Doom, Quake, and Civilization all originally built with the PC in mind. With the advent of more sophisticated consoles, several PC franchises have made the jump over to the Xbox and PlayStation 2, and more recently the Xbox 360. One such game that did so with phenomenal commercial success was Activision's Call of Duty 2. The game long held the top slot for best-selling Xbox 360 game and easily outsold any other Xbox 360 launch title. The game enjoyed great success on the PC as well, though the Xbox 360 numbers outshone the PC's as more consoles were fed into the market. Apparently, Activision was looking at those numbers. In today's postearnings conference call, Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick specifically noted that the next Call of Duty game, due in the company's third quarter of this fiscal year (October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006), is "not a PC product, it's a console product and it's all next-gen." All is not lost for the keyboard and mouse crew, however. The game is likely one of the Call of Duty spin-offs and not developed by the franchise's original minds, Infinity Ward. 2005's Call of Duty: Big Red One and 2004's Call of Duty: Finest Hour, both of which received lukewarm reviews, were developed by Treyarch and Spark Interactive, respectively. More hope comes from news from 2005. According to job listings posted by Infinity Ward just after last year's E3, the company is ramping up its teams for its Call of Duty games as well as a new intellectual property, but applicants should be open to both PC and next-gen console development. Also, Activision expects to release a COD game in its following fiscal year, which keeps in line with a new, full Infinity Ward-developed PC Call of Duty game being released every two years. Requests for clarification sent to Activision were not returned as of press time. What a bunch of BS! They will be sorry they ignored the PC like UBISOFT was sorry they bypassed the PC market when they made Ghost Recon 2 for consoles only.... This is a huge loss for the PC gamers... 
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05-10-2006, 10:09 PM
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Consoles are becoming more like low end PCs. The new PS3 will retail from $500 to $600. I have my bases covered, so I'll be all set regardless of what direction they go.
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05-10-2006, 10:35 PM
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$500 to $600 ??!!
Sony & XBox can kiss my ass. Why don't they just charge $1000. Why the Hell not. People will pay it. Then buy $50 to $60 game titles. That's complete bullshit.
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05-11-2006, 04:56 PM
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I budgeted about $400 for the PS3....anymore than that they can go fly a kite!
Regardless of how you feel about consoles... they are STILL consoles and are absolutely no match for PC's. IMHO, consoles are great for sports games and racing games.... The PC's wish they could compete with that but they can't. What gets me is that consoles are more and more trying to be the end all for FPS's and I don't understand that.... Give me a mouse and a keyboard anyday over a handheld controller. PC's will always be the best platform for FPS's because of the advancement of technology consoles are obsolete after a while because game makers are always coming up with newer & better that MAKES you upgrade if you want to play games that are leaps and bounds better then the games from 6 to 9 months ago!
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05-13-2006, 12:22 PM
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UTTER AND COMPLETE BULLSHIT! -steve
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05-13-2006, 04:15 PM
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Yeah for me consoles are great for sports games and some racing games , other than that not much appeals to me about them. Especially since the prices are now rivaling computers
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