Nuvendil said:
It also thrived in the absence of Monster Hunter. PS4 HAS Monster Hunter. And MHW has a much larger budget and it definitely shows in the presentation so not only is GE3 having to compete with MH, it is getting shown up. Going PS4 only was very foolish given the history of the franchise. Unfortunately, porting it to Switch will probably not help now. It will be old news and for midtier franchises that's very detrimental. It won't hurt, but this should have had a Switch version from the start. |
I do think that it definitely has a lot to do with it. Playstation fans who were into the genre could get something similar and of high quality in things like God Eater or Freedom Wars, but with the main attraction already available and receiving free updates throughout the year. Much less incentive to jump at new hunting game.
Megiddo said:
I'm 99.9% positive GE3 will be ported to the Switch. Hopefully it can do well there as God Eater was initially a portable franchise. Sticking to PS4 only doesn't make much sense. |
No reason to believe it would have saved it. In other instances of new versions going from PSP/Vita/console to PS4/Switch, there's still been a rather large drop off.
