Activision Reportedly Using Multiple Teams to Develop Modern Warfare 3

How much you guys want to bet this is so they don't have another rebellion on their hands? Even if one team decides it doesn't want to help anymore or walk away, they can simply let them and replace them.

Coincidentally this will probably result in a terrible product since having more the one developer work on things doesn't always come together well. That's like having multiple construction companies make a building at the same time, there is a reason it doesn't happen in other real world applications.

The series will probably get a final spurt of large purchases with MW3 based on fandom 'too large to fail' concept, before it sings it's death knell.

Anyone hoping this train will eventually hit a wall, at which point Acti is in deep shit? They're milking this one so hard and it's destroyed other franchises in the past.

Can we expect another game that takes practically zero skill? Somehow it seems like they are doing this just to spite the studio that all their former employees left. Why would they have to worry about creating something that is imaginative and brings something new to the table though? It will sell millions even if it's just you fighting giant marshmallows as Ron Jeremy on the moon.

Given how much I liked the multiplayer in SoF2, I'm interested to see what Raven does with this.

Can you say "oversaturation"?

Well this will sell a ton because of the console kiddies! The "Vote by the wallet" is oblivious to console users!

No surprise. Check out the credit list for CODBLOPS.

"We look forward to continuing to work with Infinity Ward's deep bench of proven talent on exciting new projects."
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/63260

I guess the bench wasn't that deep. I'm concerned about this in terms of game quality, because we know how well it worked for EA when they had Danger Close do the single-player for Medal of Honor and farmed the multiplayer out to DICE. In addition, most of the MW2 creative leads at Infinity Ward jumped ship to Respawn, the MW2 storyline was labeled as "insane" in many places (Ryan Davis at Giant Bomb, Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee, etc.), and Sledgehammer is a huge unknown, led by guys who specialized in third-person games that were either survival horror or action-adventure (Schofield and Condrey left EA Visceral after releasing Dead Space and in the middle of Dante's Inferno development). And, to make the picture even foggier, Raven doing the multiplayer doesn't sound comfortable. Are they going to force IWNet usage on multiplayer? Will there be dedicated servers? Those are questions to be answered later, but worth asking now.

This seems like desperation from Activision, considering that Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk have dried up, so now their cash cows are WoW, StarCraft, and Call of Duty. They're probably hoping that their NASCAR licensed game can strike it big, because they're running on budgets where they eat up $600 million per quarter.