During yesterdays Activision-Blizzard Analysts Day, Bobby Kotick, CEO of the newly merged company, declared that with Activision-Blizzard now becoming the single largest third party software publisher, they are now able to influence the design of the next generation of gaming console systems.
“Now that we have the weight of being the largest payer of royalties to the first-parties of any third-party company, I definitely see us as starting to influence hardware design, and they’re thinking about the evolution of the next generation of hardware,” said Kotick. He went on to mention that his vision for this next generation will allow Activision-Blizzard to capture “a lot of that part of the marketplace today that feature films, television or music (occupy)”.
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