PS Vita nets Activision $23 million over the year

I can only think of one Activision game, the panto villain of Vita gaming, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. While it has been roundly lambasted, the game still appears to have made the company a truckload of money. Buried in Activision quarterly financial report is the line:

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES FINANCIAL INFORMATION
For the Three Months Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011
(Amounts in millions)
Sony PS Vita 18 (this quarter)  3 (last year's quarter) 500 (%age increase)

Another line shows the company making $23 million out of the Vita overall in FY2012, that's not a bad return, despite the botched developer efforts against the background of an impossible deadline. Imagine if Activision had assigned a decent developer first time around?

That's the sort of money not to be sneezed at, and you can likely expect another release this year, with a new Call of Duty game confirmed for the big consoles. Which, with some decent resources for it might bring a decent game to go along with all the dollars. As a ballpark guess, those $18 million in sales equates to around 360,000 sales, which with AC3 Liberations 600,000 proves the Vita can sell a few games.