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Kyuu 1 day ago
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killer7 said:
Kyuu said:

Well yeah if they want to play next gen exclusives then they'll need to upgrade. It's just how it is every gen, but the key difference this time is prices are much higher than what console gamers are used to, and the economy is weaker.

I wish I knew why Rockstar refuses to port GTA5 to Switch, it's one of these questions that don't seem to have a good answer, like Vanillaware's refusal to put their games on PC lol. But putting this aside, it's not at all ridiculous that Xbox continues to get a strong 3rd party support. Scaling your game to work on Xbox consoles is very cheap and easy, and the target isn't Xbox consoles alone, but every system close enough to their specs. Switch is too underpowered and will require extra development time and costs for most AA/AAA games to work on it. It's just not deemed cost-effective by many publishers to port every game on it. Series S and comparable PC's (and potentially Switch 2 as well) are above the minimum specs required to run most AA/AAA games (so far) acceptably. 

Whatever the reason, this gen's games including exclusives are running just fine on a SteamDeck which is more or less a portable PS4. One of the few exceptions is Monster Hunter Wilds (which isn't even a great looking game so I don't know wtf is going on). I no longer think the problem is old console holding back the current generation, it's more an issue of developers failing to make use of current gen hardware to create things that are difficult to downscale to systems as old and weak as a PS4.

Graphics are getting better as devs learning to use the hardware. That would have been an argument for earlier consoles, f.e. the PS3 but today's systems share the same architechture. Its not new tech you need to "learn to use".

Yes, regardless of why, current gen hardware aren't doing anything extraordinary. So there is little reason in making your games exclusive to them as long as older systems still retain a large active playerbase, and as long as downporting doesn't cost a fortune.

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