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LudicrousSpeed on 08 October 2019
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Cerebralbore101 said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

lol what would have been different about Witcher 3 had it been confined to one platform? If anything without the reliable sales across three (soon four) platforms it would have been a smaller, less ambitious title. There’s no logic that magically creates a scenario where the game would be better had it been designed to “sell consoles”. 

All games are designed to sell consoles. Developers want to make good titles that people buy. Publishers want to back promising titles that will make their money back. For your theory about MS games to hold any weight (minus the stuff you pulled out of your butt to support your point) MS would have had to have great first party before focusing on their play anywhere push. But did they? No. Sony first party games have the success they do because good developers make them. Has nothing to do with any “made to sell consoles” nonsense. These are all businesses looking to make sales lol

@Bolded: BotW has sold over 15 million units (Edit: Wii U + Switch Sales) despite almost never going on sale. Meanwhile Witcher 3 has reached a little over 20 million sales while being up to 70% off. So your whole logic about going multiplatform leading to more reliable sales and a bigger budget doesn't add up. Horizon, and God of War were both just as ambitious as Witcher 3 despite being exclusives. So there's no reason to think Witcher 3 wouldn't have been as ambitious as an exclusive.  BotW is vastly superior to Witcher 3 despite being "less ambitious". 

For your theory about MS games to hold any weight MS would have had to have great first party before focusing on their play anywhere push.

Nah, the theory still works if their overall review scores plummet around the same time, or shortly after their play anywhere push. 

That’s great and all for Zelda but that’s a Nintendo title. No other games sell like Nintendo games. Even those two games you listed from Sony saw massive price cuts not long after release. So yeah, the point still stands about revenue coming back in. Sales on three platforms versus one. Without someone paying for an exclusive deal, you’re limiting the return on your investment which of course affects what you invest. Pretty basic stuff.

And cool, I wasn’t aware MS had some era this gen where their games reviewed very well and then they “plummeted”. Oh wait that didnt happen, just more pulled out of the butt to support the argument. 

We can agree to disagree about the ambition of those titles, especially Horizon 😬