Activision Blizzard reports FY 2015 results

Activision Blizzard, Inc. has announced full year 2015 financial results.

For calendar year 2015, Activision Blizzard delivered net revenues of $4.62 billion, as compared with $4.81 billion for 2014. Net revenues from digital channels were a record $2.63 billion and represented a record 57% of the company’s total net revenues.

Activision Publishing now has 4 of the top 10 games on next-generation consoles life-to-date. The strong performance was driven by Call of Duty: Black Ops III, which had the biggest entertainment opening weekend of 2015, and was the #1 console game globally for the calendar year. Call of Duty was the #1 franchise in North America for the seventh year in a row. Black Ops III also has the highest season pass attach rate for downloadable content in franchise history.

The Call of Duty franchise has now surpassed 250 million units sold life-to-date worldwide with over $15 billion in total sales, including in-game content, since it first launched in 2003. In Q4 2016, Activision Publishing plans to release a new Call of Duty game from its studio, Infinity Ward, the makers of the Modern Warfare series.

Destiny achieved record digital attach rates on its Q3 expansion, The Taken King. Destiny's 25+ million registered users have logged nearly 3 billion hours playing the game. Bungie expects to bring a large new expansion to Destiny in 2016 and to release a full game sequel in 2017.

Casual titles, namely Skylanders SuperChargers and Guitar Hero Live, performed weaker than expected, "largely due to greater competition in the toys to life genre and due to the casual audience's shift to mobile devices. Still, the publisher plans for a new Skylanders game to launch in 2016 along with Skylanders Academy, a new TV series.

Legacy of the Void, the standalone third chapter of StarCraft II, has sold through over 1 million copies in the first 24 hours of launch.

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