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Norion on 09 January 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
Norion said:

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.

Well that's because the PS4 can't run games like DD2 and DA:Veilguard, but it can run Palworld because the Xbone can.  I forgot a game that released last year too too, Star wars Jedi Survivor. It's still a lot of developers and publishers seeing value in a platform your telling me has a "miniscule benefit". If they are doing the updates for the Xbone than all they have to do is paste them over to the PS4, no dev costs again because the architecture is practically the same. Your acting like PS4 would be the only last gen version that they have to develop updates for. I don't know what else to say. PS4 was an enormously successful console with a huge player base still, and will keep getting some third party games for the next few years. Your acting like it's already dead but it still generates Sony hundreds of millions of revenue

There are plenty of games that released last year that could've ran on the PS4 and Xbox One but weren't released on them and once again it's not just about the cost, it's the extra time they'd have to spend supporting another version of the game that would've barely sold anything after the first few weeks. Acting as if they'd have to do nothing but copy and paste things is absurd.

It is just about dead in terms of people buying new games on it which is the main point. All you have to do is look at just how many games are skipping gen 8 consoles now to see the obvious trend. I can assure you that the vast majority of projects that started development in 2024 won't be releasing on them.