kupomogli said:
You don't call publishers taking the cheap way out and porting all their games instead of developing new games a downside? Porting games obviously takes resources and manpower. Some publishers might even think that if they're going to make the same amount of money porting a title instead of creating a new title then why not make the port. If people keep buying into all these ports, more and more developers are going to jump at the idea of rerereleasing a last gen game at full MSRP instead of developing a new game. There's no guarantee this will happen but there's also no guarantee that this gen won't be flooded with last gen ports. So far that's just about all we have to play. |
Should we punish Ubi for releasing a next gen version of AC4? What about BF4? And COD? Had TLOU released a year later, but on both the PS3 and PS4, no one would have batted an eye lash. Seeing as that's the case, and would have require the same small % of man power, why should it matter that they are doing it later rather than having entirely delayed the PS3 version?
As i said, all this does is give new customers a chance at the old, and old ones a chance to replay. It costs relatively little, it requires perhaps a small team over a few months (small enough and profitable enough that the hiring of a small extra team can be easily justified), and helps the PS division. If porting were such a strenuous and expensive venture then Ubi wouldn't be releasing their games on the PS3, PS4, X1, 360, WiiU and PC :p
No to mention, TLOU is the only game actually confirmed :/ Were Sony porting over every exclusive of the last 3 year and no working on a single other game, i could understand your constant complaints about it, but they aren't. The only other is a rumor about a game from a third party studio.
