A recruitment ad on Treyarch’s website has confirmed that the studio is in the beginning stages of bringing the Call of Duty franchise to a new console.
As initially reported by Gamespot, the ad states that the team are looking for a senior software engineer to bring their “hugely successful game to a new console”.
The language being used, in addition to a later mention in the ad referring to adapting “graphics and other major systems in our engine to a new platform”, would suggest that the game is most likely a port of some kind.
And the inference from that, if you’d forgive us some speculation, is that the game is most likely being developed for the PlayStation Vita or, at a push, the Wii U. The fact that the game appears to using current gen tech, and is most likely a port, would suggest that this isn’t a game destined for an as yet unannounced console from Microsoft or Sony.
Next-gen Call of Duty in works at Treyarch? [Gamespot]
Braaains
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 9:57 AMAwesome. Now nobody needs to worry about missing out on whatever piece of mediocre trash Treyarch push out next.
Tracey Lien
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:02 AMI would *love* to see a CoD game on the Wii U. It would be glorious.
Jake
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:40 AMThat console is gonna crash and burn worse than the 3DS. It’s aiming at hard-core gamers, an audience Nintendo completely lost with the Wii, which has about 1/10th as many good games as other consoles, but tonnes of shovelware.
Meowgravy
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:40 AMIm getting a Wii U & so are quite a few of my friends. I guess thats because were gamers, not complainers
Jake
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:45 AMHave fun with Mario.. and probably nothing else :s
spizzaza
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:38 PMi would buy a wii u just for mario. there are actually some amazing nintendo games!
although im not a big fan of the wii – dont really like the control scheme, i would have much preferred a standard controller- some of the games are pretty fun, i just recently bought one to play mario and the like (pretty much just mario :P)
natto_man
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 5:13 PMOh, and Darksiders 2, Ghost recon online, Super smash bros, Call of duty, Aliens: colonial marines, Ninja gaiden 3, Metro: last light, Dirt, Tekken, Batman: Arkham City.
Don’t go into a battle with no prior knowledge of your competitors.
Blackwater
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 12:02 PMI hope you and your friends are buying 10 wiiUs each so that it doesn’t crash and burn too quickly.
ZyklonB
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:24 AMPlease tell how this game would be glorious on the Wii U
tim rogers
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 6:19 PMlol @ “glorious”
Repneiras
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:03 AMWell at least Treyarch didn’t use the word ‘innovative’.
Francis
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:18 AMOr magical!
oggob
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:40 AMor visceral!
James Mac
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:41 AMor impactful!
Meteors
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:17 AMOr *unintelligible*, like most of the dialogue in black ops
vinny
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM…or synergy
Volv
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:19 AMThey could always be referring to the iPad as a ‘console’
Edward
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:22 AMNah, it will be PC.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:28 AMobviously its wii u
Jake
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:36 AMVita makes sense, what with Wii U shaping up to be Nintendo’s new virtual boy.
Well… third virtual boy, I guess :s
James
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 12:59 PMIt’s 3ds, case closed
Keyblade
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:20 PMHAR HAR HAR WII U IS TRASH BECUZ I HAZ ONE AND I KNOW HOW IT WORKZ.
Get real. Wii U has graphics superior to current gen and an innovative new control scheme that saw huge popularity with the DS.
That being said, I would like an online handheld shooter on my 3DS/Vita.
Keyblade
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:20 PMHAR HAR HAR WII U IS TRASH BECUZ I HAZ ONE AND I KNOW HOW IT WORKZ.
Get real. Wii U has graphics superior to current gen and an innovative new control scheme that saw huge popularity with the DS.
That being said, I would like an online handheld shooter on my 3DS/Vita.
N3RD1001101
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:25 PMThis is guaranteed Vita related, I swear though, If we don’t get Infrastructure modes and Co-Op, I’ll be pissed!
MasterSys
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:36 PMI’d love to be sitting in a Park on a nice day playing against people around the World on my Vita.
Xasrai
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:44 PMTreyarch is a hack, who shares activisions goal of extracting every cent possible from the serious before throwing it to the dog pile. I doubt I will bother with this or mw3.
Xasrai
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:45 PMSeries* stupid phone.
Ravyu
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 4:42 PMIt’s the *takes deep breath* Wiiuxbox360ps3dsvitapcxboxgamecubeps2dspspgameboyadvancen64psxgameboygameboycoloursnesataridreamcastwhateveridontreallygiveadamnconsole.
In other words amd cpu-powered pc
Jayden
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 4:53 PMF**K YES!!! Now I can finally play Call of Duty on my calculator!
Jayden
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 4:53 PMF**K YES!!! Now I can finally play Call of Duty on my calculator!
djmcbell
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 5:29 PMWell, my abacus has a lack of games (not even any EA love with Fifa). There’s a captive market there.
Otacon
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 5:30 PMI’m not going to buy a fps on a portable. Also, as the Wii U will be a console, I won’t be buying a fps that I can get on PC for that either.
pat
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 8:19 PMMy money is on the vita. There has to be some company twitching to see if those dual thumbsticks can hold their own with a proper fps franchise. Activision love money. SO why not crank out another hacknied CoD game and take a swipe at capturing momentum/unity between the CoD franchise and mobile gamers?
No diss to Treyarch here. I think Activision will be keen to CoDualize our mobile gaming space too. Probably couldn’t hurt.
Although you could do some cool stuff with the wii U screen, minimap? Gyroscopic fly by wire missles? Errrm. That proximity sensor thing from Mw2?
Even the Vita touchpad has potential for interesting application in a cod game.
Alex
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 5:35 PMits the psvita since nxt year the psvita gets released and that same year theirs suppose to be a new call of duty title for it i just hope that if treyarch dose it right they will bring Co-op and also a good singleplayer and multiplayer and some zombies on it as well be awsome to play and if that be the only game they release next year then i will be over the moon because every 1 bags on cod every year n it pisses me off well how about a year of no cod only for the vita then u all who dnt own a vita will come to ur senses and stop this cod sucks crap thing cause u all say it but u all enjoy playin it how u feel if their was no cod one year and u stuck playin last years cod i think only then u can really know how much u want n need cod deni it but its true every word