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?

Maybe the lack of a Ghosts release on the DS is why it didn't steal back their record from GTA hahaha :D

Well, the "spin offs" of the big franchises have done pretty well on Vita.

So yeah, I don't see why a CoD on 3DS wouldn't shift a fair wedge of games and like you say, there's a clear gap in the market. That's why I think Iron Fall will be quite an interesting one to follow. Hopefully the dev will give a rough idea of how well received it's been.

If it does well, it means there is a market for the games on 3DS and they'll have a very competent engine ready for other devs to just buy off them.

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).

Damn now some of you guys are real PS Vita supporters.

Fixed :)

Lol, this thread makes me miss having a Vita

Unlike you.

Huh, HUH.

Lmao, as soon as I get $200 freed up I'll make sure to buy one.

Yes, thank you! Someone picked that up :)

It's the hd collection and it's awful, borderline unplayable. Wanted to go through all 3 games but I can't force myself to go back to the precursor legacy. There are no framedrops that bother me because the game runs at a constant ~15 fps. Some of the minigames are nearly unbeatable with this kind of framerate, the catching fish minigame had me almost throw my vita out of the window, it's simply not doable with stick controls and only barely with touch screen input. I am sorry for anyone who spent money on this turd of a collection, I got it free through PS+. I thought it was only the PS3 version but one day I simply could download the vita version of the collection.

Vita also has a folder of PS+ games which become unusable in 2 months and 3DS has the 20 ambassador games in a folder which is not shown. Getting Bravely Default and Zelda for 3DS until the end of the year and nuthin for Vita.