Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, Assassin’s Creed To Sustain Vita Post-Launch
Sony has pulled out a lot of big guns–most notably Uncharted: Golden Abyss–for the launch of the PlayStation Vita. Over 20 games from both first and third-party studios will be available at launch. But outside of the all-important launch window, not much is known about what’s to come on the PlayStation Vita.
Thankfully, Sony’s director of hardware marketing John Koller has spilled the beans on some AAA releases due only a few short months after launch that are poised to sustain Sony’s new portable beast.
You could count the number of Vita titles scheduled outside of the launch window on one hand. There’s Street Fighter x Tekken. There’s Resistance: Burning Skies. There’s Sound Shapes. Huge games, yes, but that’s been all that has been known for some time.
But John Koller, keen on building additional excitement for the PlayStation Vita’s incoming Western launch, has revealed that some major franchises will be hitting the PlayStation Vita in the coming months, including Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, and my personal favorite, Mortal Kombat. A couple of these titles were mentioned briefly during last January’s NGP press conference, but not a word has been mention regarding their existence since.
While speaking to GameSpot in a recent CES interview, John Koller let the cat out of the bag.
What we really wanted to do, and I think we learned from past, most recent, handheld device launches, is that you don’t want to launch strongly and then go dark for three or four months and have nothing…So in subsequent months for Vita, we have launch, then we have MLB, then we got Mortal Kombat, then Resistance, then Little Big Planet, then Call of Duty, and Assassin’s Creed.
If this is in chronological order, we could see a Mortal Kombat game shortly after MLB: The Show for PlayStation Vita’s March 6th release date. The PlayStation Vita itself launches on February 22nd alongside a number launch titles.
8 Responses to “Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, Assassin’s Creed To Sustain Vita Post-Launch”
I’m interested to see how MLB plays out. I was rather skeptical of PSV FIFA, but after watching the gameplay I’m pretty psyched for it. Hopefully MLB is just as cool.
Although I’m buying the Vita day one (two of them actually), I’m still waiting for that Monster Hunter announcement… I don’t care if it is a port, I don’t care if it is P3 with slightly upgraded graphics; I just want me a Vita-native Monster Hunter.
/Sooooo hoping I’m not disappointed…
MLB looks great on Vita. They finally have umpires!
And Monster Hunter…oh man, if Sony’s got any sense, they’re in daily talks with Capcom trying to make something happen. I can only hope.
i got to be honest if a port of MW3 comes out for the Vita i might just buy just for the online but we got wait and see
hmmm.. I wonder if COD junkies will flock to the vita after hearing this. Me, I havent played MW3 because from what i seen, it just looks like the same ass shit. But i might just get it if it comes out for the vita along with MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!
Call of Duty on PSV wooojuuu yeeessss
Yeeaah thats pretty awesome .. think with me … even the Xboxers want a Portable Console … so how we know them the majority of them like COD or not??
so they would get a Vita just to play their COD everywhere …
Greaaaaat Move Sony!
Assassins creed for vita is a new game not a port , which makes me think if call of duty is a port of an older game mw3 or new black ops 2? Or there was rumor of a prequel call of duty game with the main character is ghost and takes place before cod4.
I will be able to punish some n00bs in UMVC3 wherever I go!, that’s all I need