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pokoko on 09 February 2014
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ZyroXZ2 said:
pokoko said:

You're talking pure supposition here.  There are plenty of high-quality third-party titles.  Developing for more than one console only takes more time.  If there is enough time, the quality can and should equal that of a single-console game.

And yet it doesn't.  Every gamer everywhere knows that the biggest titles to look forward to on any system are the 1st party titles.  There's a general and knowing expectation that it WILL be a QUALITY game, because it's FIRST party.

I get your point, and I actually AGREE that quality should not be tied to multi-platform, but because money is not infinite, it unfortunately IS tied to quality.  Sure, if a game had a 5 year development time and 100 million dollars, I'd bet it could walk right up to a first party title and say hello, but NO one would ever do that: a console's lifespan makes a 5 year development time absolutely unprofitable.

No offense but the bandwagon fallacy doesn't mean much.  First party games often get over-hyped before release.  Ask Knack, Ryse, and the Wonderful 101.  

It also seems that you're vastly over-estimating the time it takes to port between the PS4, Xbox One, and the PC.