| ganoncrotch said:
you really think they wouldn't get a small team together for a platform where they've shifted 3m units over 4 games before? I would guess the lenght of time and resources which goes into a single 3rd party thrown together port of a game like this wouldn't take the same lenght of time of 1/4 of a map from the next gen systems. I would say their loss.... but like it's such a shame the 3ds doesn't have a shooter on it.... would think the fact that there is such an opening in the market would make it even more appealing to be the first? |
It wouldn't be a port though... it would have to be a title developed from the ground up for 3DS. Seeing how Vita couldn't run a fully fledged CoD (if rumours are anything to go by); then 3DS would have no chance.
That means new engine and dev team working for at least longer than 4 months (if Declassified is anything to go by) making this new game. More resources than just porting something across, I would imagine.
Also, look at the global sales breakdown for each of those DS Call of Duty titles you listed. Every single one of them had stronger second-year sales than first-year sales. That means that they were all being sold at discounted prices; so although the physical numbers were impressive, I'd imagine the publisher wouldn't be getting as much back compared to if they'd been all first year sales.
Also, there's a massive decline between titles that was still trending downwards. Perhaps they thought that decline was going to continue and it was better to quit while there was a good opportunity (i.e. new console).
