It was a launch title for the PlayStation 3 and Wii in North America, Europe and Australia. It is also the only major installment to not release on the PC.

Call of Duty 3 was made by Treyarch, but they were already pressured with the release of Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. Therefore Treyarch had a shorter amount of time to make a game for next gen consoles at the time. Because of this, they had to scrap the PC version.