Barozi said:
osed125 said:
Barozi said:
No that's the decision of the third parties. If they would like you to buy the $70 version they will try to lure you by either giving the $70 game more content OR decrease the quality of the $60 by a bit and with that I'm not only talking about worse graphics.
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Either way the same point stands. Given the games popularity in the current gen consoles, if Activision decides to make a next-gen version with a lot of content (obviously more than just graphics) most people will not care about those contents, I honestly can't see someone paying that much cash (a new console + CoD) for a single game (unless of course you are a extreme hardcore CoD fan, but those are a minority). If the game is exclusive then that's a very different scenario, but then again it doesn't make sense financially to ignore the PS360 crowd.
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No one said that it would be for a single game. Obviously third parties are not the ones to push a new system. That's the consoles manufacturer's job. And if someone owns both consoles there is a good chance that he will get the superior version for a few bucks more.
Lastly SW sales were slowing down by 13-14% for PS360 during 2012. This certainly affects new games (not just new IPs) because every year there are more games to choose from. Many newly released games won't be able to outsell their predecessors even though the userbase is larger. This trend will continue this year and especially next year. Third parties may support the old consoles as long as they wish, but there will be a time where doing a last gen port won't be able to generate enough sales to become important for them. That's a natural cycle.
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I completely understand that. The thing I said in my previous post is that this "natural cycle" will take more than the other gens, maybe not so much for smaller games but the big ones like CoD and Assassin Creed will take longer to make the step.
