disolitude on 13 August 2010
| Goddbless said: I never knew this but it is pretty dumb. Doesn't Sony realize this can limit certain devs from making games for them? |
Its something Sony did to control shovelware on the PS3. And its working, kind of... Games like Sniper, Darkest of Days, Autobahn racing, those Rapala Hunting games...never go to PS3 since they won't sell much.
Those publishers make a game for PC/360 for a million bucks tops, sell 50,000 copies on both platforms and go home with a small profit...
If they had to print 60000 PS3 versions of the game and pay sony 400000 dollars for licensing up front, their warehouse would be full of unsold PS3 discs.
However it sucks for cool niche japanese games...like SHUMPS
