Am I the only one who has noticed this. Publishers are so antsy at the thought of putting their game on ever single platform possible that they don't even realise that it isn't even worth the investment. I understand that in the past stepping into the next generation was pretty difficult due to sales being slow in the first year or so. But thats in the past. Gamers are adapting to this generation faster than they ever have in any generation. Look at all the cross gen games that have come out thus far and see how abysmal the previous gen sales are.

Watch Dogs:

PS4: 1.86m

X1: 0.90m

PS3: 0.43m

360: 0.46m

Wolfenstein: The New Order:

PS4: 0.42m

X1: 0.24m

PS3: 0.11m

360: 0.11m

Thief:

PS4: 0.44m

X1: 0.27m

PS3: 0.18m

360: 0.16m

Notice in ever game you have to add both last gen versions just to reach the X1 numbers? This just proves that it's pointless. The only exception to this is for call of duty... and thats pretty much it. Publishers waste time doing this shit instead of focusing on the current gen and getting the best out their games like Rocksteady.

Thoughts?

It all depends on the cost of the port and what's added to the development time. An extra 340k in sales is still a significant amount of money.

most hardcore gamers would of transitioned to next gen already which leads to the figures seen, but thats not to say that won't change later on, a 160m install base is hard to ignore i guess. But i would like to see more next gen only games for example: destiny (releasing nearly a year after release of next gen consoles and a fairly ambitious title).

They said the same thing for the Wii and look how that turned out lol

Install base means nothing.

I dunnu... add 0.12 in digital sales across all four platforms and you have one million units sold. 220.000 sales are a good number on seventh gen, all things considered.

You know how I see it?

Watch Dogs would have 1m less sales without cross gen. Over 1/3 of the sales.

Wolfenstein: The New Order would have .22m less sales without cross gen. Over 1/3 of the sales.

Thief would have .34m less sales without cross gen. Over 1/3 of the sales.

Cross gen isn't pointless. When people stop buying it, companies will stop making it.

Yea i guess, but the wii was like casual central and featured the most akward controls (especially early on which turned me off of non-nintendo games), like i just didnt know if they wanted me to play COD with a wii mote or what. However, i concede to your point. After thinking it through i actually think you're more correct in this matter.

For games like Skylanders, only going next gen would kill the franchise, they need to be crossgen.

For games like Skylanders, only going next gen would kill the franchise, they need to be crossgen.

We'll probably stop seeing cross gen games in 2016.