| Ka-pi96 said:
Seemed to be the same with western devs for a while, now they all look set to jump fully to current gen. Wouldn't be surprised if smaller Japanese devs, such as Kadokawa, were the first to move to current gen either. It can help generate some hype for their games by being current gen exclusive, something the bigger devs don't really need to worry about with their big marketing budgets. |
Kadokawa aren't exactly small though. I mean, Natural Doctrine sold a pitiful amount of copies, but they're not a particularly small company - they're a pretty large media corporation with a videogame section.
It's something NIS or Compile Heart could afford to do, but I think medium-large sized pubs would be less likely to take the plunge. Look at Tecmo Koei - no current gen exclusives announced (all Warriors games + Bladestorm + DOA5LR coming to current gen as well). Look at Bandai - One Piece is coming to PS3/Vita as well, Sword Art Online is skipping the platform altogether (though, Tekken 7 is looking likely to be current-gen-only).
