Call of Duty for Vita? Update: N-Space not developing Black Ops 2 for handhelds!

[Chark]

RolStoppable said:

Chark said:

First paragraph: There were plenty of CoD games on Wii and DS, releasing a unique title would just take some initiative and would make good use of the gyro and touch screen. Imagine disarming a bomb, having the screen zoom in and you had to entire the correct code on the number pad or cut a certain wire. Or operating a mounted gun and panning around to aim it, just like in real life. They could make a knock out game. History be damned too, even though the PSP wanted to provde home console quality games their controlls never let it happen. Handhelds are moving up.

Second paragraph: Come on Rol, you know better than that. Retailers and wholesallers take their cut out of the price tag, the cost per unit is much cheaper. Plus it would be digital, so no physical related costs. If it spurred "2 million" Vita purchases Sony would be more than happy to pay the ~20 per game that month, but the real benefit would be Sony's advertisement help. Compare this idea to what it would cost to have a price cut and it is petty cash.

1) I agree that making a good unique title would be easily possible for both the Wii and PSV, but the problem that Western publishers aren't interested remains. Maybe that changes with the PSV, but good luck with that.

2) Like I said, I used rough numbers for ease of calculation. But if Uncharted: Golden Abyss goes for $50, then you can be sure that CoD will as well, because that's what Activision thinks they can charge. And if digital versions of PSV games only have a 10 % price production compared to retail, then you are still left with $45. No way would Activision make a deal where they only got $20 per copy.

Wow, take a step back and think about that. The cost to distribute a digital game is almost null. Retailers and wholesalers probably get $10 each for a $50 game sale. That's $30 left for Activision, minus cost to produce the case which could be like $5 or something. That 10% online discount is mearly an incentive, they still make more profit off that then a retail sale. Say $20 or $30 from Sony per sale would equate to retail sale level profit, so that alone would be a huge incentive. This not including the advertisement boom. I mean really, have you ever considered the loss of sales when viewing those console bundles we see all the time. Sony's latest PS3 holiday bundle was $50 off with LBP2 and Ratchet & clank for free. If this idea is crazy but that isnt...i dont know what to say.