Satya Nadella says more Xbox games will be released on other platforms

[Norion]

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Norion said:

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?

It's not just about the creation of the port and the monetary costs, it's mostly about adding another version of the game they'd have to support long term which would take time and resources. Some small amount of people would've bought a PS4 version in September but then sales would've quickly diminished to basically nothing so they'd be looking at slightly higher sales on Playstation for a few weeks or so but then basically no difference for 2025 onward while still having to keep supporting the PS4 version for a while unless they cut support really quickly which would make them look bad.

For the part about games that did get a PS4 version last year you'd have a point if lots of developers hadn't moved on from the PS4 by 2024 with lots of games not releasing on it but that very clearly happened so singling out Pocketpair and acting like they're being unusual is not accurate.

Last edited by Norion - on 08 January 2025