18 months is a solid time frame, or when they stop becoming profitable on the previous-gen consoles....
| zero129 said: Additionally, this brings up another concern: so many games that have released recently or are going to release soon, aren’t even on current generation hardware. Development cycles in this day and age take several years, so upscaling a game and adapting it to the PS4 (like with The Last of Us and Tomb Raider) isn’t as easy as one might think. |
Except that the people who developed these ports said that it was quite easy. Makes me think whoever wrote this article has no idea what he is talking about.
The install base argument is getting less and less appropriate. Seeing how the systems with 10 times the install base are only selling 2-3 times as much as the new gen it's clear that install base doesn't directly result in sales. Titanfall is even selling more on X1 than on 360.
After the next holidays the majority of the core audience will be on next gen consoles so they might as well switch then.
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Stop development now. Developers isn't doing next gen justice.
Seems a little alarmist. On the previous generation, Splinter Cell Double Agent, for example, actually got two different versions: one for the seventh gen, another for the sixth gen. So that's just the modus operandi of the beginning of a gen.
Give it time. Arkham Knight is already next-gen only, as well as Assassin's Creed Unity.
I don't mind that it'll take around two years before we mostly stop seeing PS360 games, what I'm bothered with is that with this gen, developers are all about porting the hell out of everything. Already are there more last gen ports on the PS4 and Xbox One than there are HD Collections and we're only six months in.
Probably in 2015, when the last gen consoles are going to stop selling that much! Besides, it's already kinda happening with games like Arkham Knight! 
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| kupomogli said: I don't mind that it'll take around two years before we mostly stop seeing PS360 games, what I'm bothered with is that with this gen, developers are all about porting the hell out of everything. Already are there more last gen ports on the PS4 and Xbox One than there are HD Collections and we're only six months in. |
Really? I can think of The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, Flower... are there more out there? Or you're counting the multi-generation games?
Exclusives: now
3rd party: as soon as they can secure a good profit or as soon as it's impossible to get the game running on last-gen (The Division).
When there is no longer any real money to be made there.
vivster said:
Except that the people who developed these ports said that it was quite easy. Makes me think whoever wrote this article has no idea what he is talking about. The install base argument is getting less and less appropriate. Seeing how the systems with 10 times the install base are only selling 2-3 times as much as the new gen it's clear that install base doesn't directly result in sales. Titanfall is even selling more on X1 than on 360. After the next holidays the majority of the core audience will be on next gen consoles so they might as well switch then. |
Not sure about Tomb Raider but Last of Us was "hell" to port over. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/05/16/getting-the-last-of-us-running-on-ps4-was-hell.aspx
OT: When they can't or don't want to make money from last gen only customers.
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