When Should Developers Leave Last-Gen Consoles Behind?

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vivster said:

zero129 said:

Additionally, this brings up another concern: so many games that have released recently or are going to release soon, aren’t even on current generation hardware. Development cycles in this day and age take several years, so upscaling a game and adapting it to the PS4 (like with The Last of Us and Tomb Raider) isn’t as easy as one might think.

Except that the people who developed these ports said that it was quite easy. Makes me think whoever wrote this article has no idea what he is talking about.

 The install base argument is getting less and less appropriate. Seeing how the systems with 10 times the install base are only selling 2-3 times as much as the new gen it's clear that install base doesn't directly result in sales. Titanfall is even selling more on X1 than on 360.

After the next holidays the majority of the core audience will be on next gen consoles so they might as well switch then.

Not sure about Tomb Raider but Last of Us was "hell" to port over. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/05/16/getting-the-last-of-us-running-on-ps4-was-hell.aspx

OT: When they can't or don't want to make money from last gen only customers.