Ka-pi96 said:
Kresnik said:
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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.
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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).
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I know Kadokawa are big in other areas, but their game development section is still relatively small compared to other devs.
A lot of those cross gen games would have already been in development for a while though, just like western cross gen games like Watch Dogs and Destiny. Once those have released and they start work on new games it is definitely possible they will go current gen only then.
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Doubtful, when 7th-gen games are still outselling 8th-gen games in Japan on a regular basis. Publishers there are going to either be making cross-gen games or making PS3-exclusive games for some time to come.
And of course, the handheld and mobile titles.
