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LuckyTrouble on 20 December 2016
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zorg1000 said:
LuckyTrouble said:

Because making a game with a primary goal of porting it to significantly inferior hardware is a ridiculous development strategy. It just means the final product will be an inferior experience on two consoles. I don't exactly define that as everybody winning or smart development aimed at consumer satisfaction. They also risk undermining PS4 version sales by porting that version to the Switch, particularly if Japan does actually jump all over the dockable tablet. They still have to justify the creation of the PS4 version, and if both versions are available on two different Nintendo handhelds, the PS4 version will be dead in the water. That's a great way to guarantee the PS4 version will release internationally, I guess.

So yeah, I'm not jumping all over this strange idea that developers are putting all their eggs into the yet unknown basket of the Switch and sacrificing performance of future releases exclusively for an unreleased console.

So Switch is going to hold back the PS4 version of DQXI?

Did Persona 5 being on PS3 hold back the PS4 version?

Likely, though I'd hope the copious amount of extra development time worked past whatever ways the PS3 version development may have negatively impacted the PS4 side. PS3/PS4 simultaneous development held back multiple games, though in the case of Bamco titles which stand out as prominent offenders in my mind, maybe they just chose not to try that hard using last gen development as an excuse. When developing with last gen in mind, it's hard to say if the game was developed and ported up, or developed and ported down. I mean, just look at the upcoming Tales of Berseria. It only came out in August in Japan and still looks like a game from 2011. Last gen has acted as an amazing excuse to not push development as far forward as it could since the PS4 came out.

Japan should be given a pat on the back for finally not feeling like they have to develop all their games on the PS3 first if they want to develop for consoles. Some games are finally PS4 exclusives, and surprise surprise, once they stopped developing actively for the PS3, PS4 sales started moving. Just correlation, I realize, but there is likely some degree of causation between declining PS3 development and escalating PS4 development and sales.