Cross-gen support; what's your take?

[chakkra]

Shiken said:

chakkra said:

I was initially not gonna post on this thread since this topic has been argued to death on this site for the last couple of months, but this take called my attention.

Ubisoft, EA, Capcom, Take Two, etc., have ZERO moral obligation to support X1 and PS4 owners. Why? because they were not the ones who sold those people a console.

The only ones with a moral obligation here are MS and Sony; and I for one, find it hugely disrespectful to drop the support of a console even before the next one is released. I mean, by holiday 2021 there will be around 85m PS4 owners who will have one and half year without any game from the company that sold them the console; and by holiday 2022 there will be around 60m PS4 owners who will have TWO AND HALF years without any game from the company that sold them the console.

How anyone who is not planning to buy a console at launch finds this acceptable is beyond me.

They have zero obligation, but it would be most beneficial to support them for about two years after next gen drops.  Install base is everything, and going from over 100mil to under 30 mil when it comes to potential consumers would not be a very smart business practice.

Of course it is beneficial to them, but that's not the point. The point is that it is not their responsibility to support those or any other consoles for that matter.