With the mass defections of employees at Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward showing no signs of stopping, it may be just a matter of time before the first person shooter team is shut down. That's the belief of Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey. According to IndustryGamers.com, Hickey says that the Infinity Ward team's days are numbers.

In a note to investors, Hickey states, "We expect Infinity Ward studio will be essentially closed after their next map pack release, with development work on Modern Warfare 3 spread between two studios not historically tied to the franchise." Publisher Activision already has two dev teams, Treyarch and the new Sledgehammer Games, working on games in the Call of Duty franchise. If he's right we suspect that other internal Activision teams such as Raven Software could get the nod to work on Modern Warfare 3.