System Shock remake is made for PC gamers first, says game director

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crissindahouse said:

Intrinsic said:
Hmmm, I bet it sells more on consoles. Which begs the question, a dev comes out and declares their game is made for a particular audience but yet the game sells better to another audience?

Thats a contradiction if ever I have seen one. If they really wanna be all through and through PC? they should take the star citizen route or shut up.

No, that's not a contradiction. They make the game for the taste of PC gamers and everyone on console who still likes it can buy it as well. They just don't make it for the taste of console gamers first to get even more sales on consoles as they will get. Just because the game "will be made like PC gamers want it" doesn't mean that it will be bad on console, just that more console players won't like it as they would do if it would be made with console in mind first. 

And it's a Kickstarter game after all. Shall they fuck their backers now just because it will maybe sell better on console? 

Sure, they could say the game won't release on console at all but as long as they will make the game for the backers which are PC gamers, a console version can be still nice for many console players. It will just maybe feel a little bit less like a console game as other console games but that doesn't mean that it is useless on console. 

What I want to know is why he's so concerned about sales. The same type of comment was made within the Crash badnicoot thread in terms of PS4 sales, despite the fact that the thread wasn't at all about sales in the frist place, nor is this thread either. This thread is about PC devs letting their backers know that they won't be gimping their version of the game, that's pretty much all there is to it.

It's weird, but these days we have PC devs or devs in general, standing up and having to tell us that they won't gimp their PC versions, which wasn't a big thing some years back. It's reassuring though for the devs to go out of their way to let their backers know that they promise to keep things as smooth as possible, better that than being completely silent about it and then pulling a bad job out of the blue.