Full Activision Blizzard Financial Call Breakdown

Activision Blizzard's Q3 financials revealed quite a few nuggets of information on their performance over the 2009 holiday period and also brought news of new releases coming scheduled for 2010. We know you probably don't want to sit through the whole call, so we've oulined all the key points worth noting along with the slides if you want to get stuck into how much money they made.

[Medievaldragon]

I saw love Mike Morhaime for saying the sweet words: Starcraft II Beta and Late February (which translates to: NOW !!!)

[DJDarkstar]

Aye, It is coming soon definately, I like it :D

[Cogo]

I wonder if it could be any truth to the rumours of starting with the Jace Hall show?

[Maticus]

Yay, SCII is FINALLY on the way. How long has it been delayed by, a year??

[kerriganss]

This day, shall be remembered forever!

[Cogo]

Well, until the beta actually STARTS, and when the game is released ;)

[Leord]

While the info is very cool, I think this day itself will likely be forgotten :P

[Medievaldragon]

For Adun, Tassadar Toridas my brethren.

[Cogo]

Lol, too geeky for me :)

[DJDarkstar]

En Taro Tassadar!

[Redrudy]

I tried listening to it live but it did my head in so thanks for the run down of it all.

[Leord]

God damn there were many numbers!

[Cogo]

God yeah! I mean, I think I have heard "million" and "percent" a million times now!

Thanks for this!

[DJDarkstar]

Definately an interesting read, and good to see the how they are going financially hehe.

[c0de]

Keep an eye out on Activision Blizzard!

[theCHUNK]

I listened to it live - was pretty interesting to hear how they present the financial business stuff. Kind of made me want to invest in them.

[Redrudy]

hah! someone else said the same thing to me earlier. I know of two people who bought shares in Blizzard years ago so they must be feeling very pleased with themselves. Wish I had had the sense to do that.

[Leord]

Yeah me too. I think their stocks are still quite low in price. I got that interest myself.

How o I go about it? Never bought stocks before!

[DJDarkstar]

Nor have I, but Blizzard would be the company I would invest in for sure hehe.

[haqshot]

I have owned shares of Activision Blizzard for some time now, and my personal recommendation would be to buy now. The stock price is incredibly low now mainly due to weakness in the gaming industry overall. Individually, AB is still just as incredible as ever with fantastic future prospects.

Buy it up!

[Mikeyy]

@haqshot

How do you handle your stocks? internet, Stock Broker, Ect?

[haqshot]

I handle most of it online through E-Trade. It's very easy. It is always smart for ANYONE, especially younger people, to invest in stocks. I would strongly recommend it. Be sure to do your research though because it is just as easy to lose money. While I can personally recommend Activision Blizzard based on my research, most beginners would be safer by investing in an ETF of the S&P 500 index.

[DJDarkstar]

Awesome :D well we know for sure Beta is not far away now hehe.

[quantum300]

greattttt

[haqshot]

Finally, N4G users get to see what actually matters.

Growth %'s, revenues, profit, market share, etc.

Now stop calling Activision Blizzard evil and realize that it is indeed a company competing in a global economy.

EDIT: If you really want to see the kind of pressure these companies are under, listen to the entire earnings call and then listen to the Q&A at the end. You will soon realize that there is a small army of financial analysts standing ready to pummel the public's perception of the company's earnings potential. This is why this "evil" company is always trying hard to make more money. Most N4G users seem unable to grasp this.