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Hardstuck-Platinum on 08 January 2025
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Norion said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Even if only 5% of sales were on PS4, if the game sold 10 million copies (which is very possible for COD), it means the game sold 500,000 on PS4. Is 500k sales worth the extra development of a PS4 version? I would say yes. I don't really understand your logic of two years time difference being the reason. it's not about the calendar, it's about potential sales and players, and a PS4 version in 2024 would still get you way more players and sales then an Xbone version would in 2023. 

Is it about the calendar since that determines if making a PS4 or Xbox One version of a game makes sense to make since the older those systems get the less people there are buying games on them. Black Ops 6 began development back in 2020, the PS4 and Xbox One were both very relevant then which is why they made versions for those systems but in 2024 the situation is completely different. I said before 2023 and cross-gen development made a lot more sense back in 2022 than it did in 2024 which is why the number of games releasing on the PS4/Xbox One keeps declining.

Pocketpair feeling that the Xbox One version wasn't really worth it making them not bother with a PS4 version makes more sense than Sony forcing them to not make one since the impact on PS5 sales from that would've been basically non-existent.

To get it on PS4 from Xbone would literally be a quick copy and paste job because, PS4 is a fair bit more powerful than Xbone and they have the same architecture. It would require next to no money because your just moving the game over from the Xbone dev kit to the PS4 dev kit. Your telling me that the costs of updating the game on the PS4 outweighs the amount of sales they would get? Free sales that required next to no development costs? Look at all the third party games on PS4 this year. Visions of Mana. COD BO6. Sonic+Shadow generations. Diablo 4 vessel of hatred, just to name afew. All those publishers saw value in PS4 but your telling me Pocketpair didn't?