| Aielyn said: ...By the way, I highly doubt that Activision asked Treyarch to do Modern Warfare for the Wii. If Activision had wanted MW for the Wii, they'd have asked Treyarch to do it for release at the same time as the other versions, not two years later. Since they had n-Space make the DS version for release in 2007, we know that they didn't have a problem asking for secondary studios to have simultaneous release. And Activision barely even acknowledged Reflex Edition - you don't specifically ask a studio to make a port of a game, and then fail to properly advertise its existence. More likely is that Treyarch approached Activision with the idea, and Activision begrudgingly gave them a small budget. |
Remember that the engine created for MW was brand new at that moment and develop by IW, which did not want to touch the Wii at all, the next year Treyarch ported the engine to the console for CoD World at War. The next year IW (having the engine ported) also did not wanted anything to do with the Wii, so Activision told Treyarch to developed a CoD for the Wii, but since IW was not giving them assets, or any kind of help, they went for MW instead of MW2. Then all hell broke lose and the IW scandal took place, making Activision to put hands into matter and very close control of the remains of that studio.
Next year Treyarch developed Black Ops with a Wii version, and then they worked on MW3 for the console, this time having more info and details without blocks from IW who were now under the full control over the studio, so the console never had MW2 but MW3 released at the same time as in the other consoles.
