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| Shadow1980 said: Why has cross-gen suddenly become a thing for first-party titles, anyway? While it's been commonplace for several generations now for third-party games, the only first-party game I can recall being cross-gen prior to 2017 was Twilight Princess. Nintendo later released BotW day-and-date on Wii U & Switch. Now it's a thing for PlayStation and Xbox. I mean, I don't mind it, but still, it's unusual seeing the platform makers not have a sharp cut-off. I wonder if it's at least in part due to newer hardware being hard to come across and Sony & MS not wanting to immediately cut off the tens of millions of users who haven't made the switch yet. |
Yep exactly for this reason
PlayStation5 is sold out.
I haven't seen one available any time i have looked. It's June now. Besides that, also game development is having major delays due to closures and the inefficiency of teams having to work from home. Since the games face delays anyway, and hardware isn't coming out as fast as it should, might as well put some people on making it playable on the older hardware. The extra time spend due to covid delays still costs the same money, so having a ps4 version is a way to fund the gap.
Plus I bet CP2077 also had its influence. CDPR working its teams to the ground through a pandemic to deliver a train wreck will have surely been noticed around all other studios. At least it made it a lot easier to sell this line "We remain focused on delivering a top-quality game while maintaining the safety and wellbeing of our team, creative partners, and families,"
Btw FH2 was cross-gen as well, it simply dropped a bunch of features for the 360 version. Maybe that will also happen to God of War and GT7.
TloU was cross-gen as well btw, just called a remaster and charged you again :p
