Things looking up for the Vita, now have more games for it than my....

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Kresnik said:

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).

Everything that Kresnik said plus Activision never abandoned mobile platforms for Call of Duty, they have just changed them. The resources that have gone towards the DS games, and CoD Roads to Victory on the PSP (although this was most probably moneyhatted like Declassified) are now geared toward iOS and Android versions, there are like 4 CoD games there. And probably make Activision more profit so they ditched dedicated handhelds unless payed by Sony or Nintendo to do a game, like Declassified which I'm pretty sure was exactly the case.