Activision talks about the cancellation of Sierra titles

The matter was easy to figure out, but the Activision Blizzard boss has clearly explained it during a financial meeting with the company’s shareholders: some titles that belonged to the publishers (particularly the Sierra ones) have been cancelled because they didn’t show “a potential to be explored every year on several platforms”.

Basically, the objective is to concentrate on the titles that can continue being profitable in a long period of time, hence, on games that can become a series of titles launched throughout the years. Within those requirements, 15 titles have remained, among them, obviously Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft. But not only. The “tie-in’s” will also have a space on the company, titles such as: Transformers, WOlverine, Monsters Versus Aliens and Ice Age, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and other James BOnd and Tony Hawk titles should be arriving as well. Among the completely new titles, Prototype, Singularity and the new race game being developed by Bizarre Creations.

In all that, no space left for Brutal Legend, Ghostbusters and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, that obviously didn’t show the potential to be explored in a continuing way. In any case, Ghostbusters might be published by Atari, while 50 Cent is already in the hands of the THQ developers. Only Brutal Legend remains unknown, for now.

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