MS is the publisher. The publisher tells the developer when their game is going to be released, not vice versa.

Swery's history says otherwise; a niche title as Deadly Premonition sold fairly well on 360 whereas it "flopped" on Ps3, despite having additional content and such.

Such a terrible example.

Besides the fact that Swery publicly said he was to "Steve Jobs" the game. Which was announce it at TGS and then release right after with no build or hype. So Microsoft has nothing to do with his poor choice.

Just because I don't think it would have sold significantly better doesn't mean I think the sales would have been similar. Would it have done slightly better on PS4? Sure, I don't think it would have been a big of a difference as people claim. HR and B:TS are big budget retail exclusive games, not really comparable IMO. There's xbox gamers that like niche games, Swery's other game "Deadly Premonition" is proof.

That's not what Swery is saying now.

MS barely promoted it and nobody knew it was coming out when it did. It was a surprise release of a niche title and a Kinect game, too. Although I heard you can choose to use the controller?

Well, you are not totally honest there, considering the fact PS3 version released 3 years after 360 version, there was nothing more to expect from a game selling mostly in the Us, most people who wanted the game there already had it

But it's a known fact niche games sell better on PS, it's a consequence of being the main platform for japanese games

I'm not exactly sure if you know this but the reason Deadly Premonition on the PS3 had sold less than half the xbox 360 version was because it released in other big territories like NA and EU in a very late fashion. It took 3 years for most users to be able to have access on the PS3 version of Deadly Premonition compared to the xbox 360. 

Another thing is that the game sold poor in Japan and most of it's sales came from overseas so it's perfectly understandable why the game didn't fare well on the PS3. 

I might have been interested int the full game, but doesn't seem that's going to happen now. They did everything wrong with this.

- No advertising
- Exclusive on a console with less interest in adventure games
- Episodic game
- Releasing just after back to school, just before the big games start hitting
- Kinect stigma
- QTE stigma

I guess it deserves the low sales after reading this

The bigger problem, sadly, is that D4 is built around a Kinect-reliant interface that unfortunately doesn't work. As ever with Kinect-centric games, it's sometimes hard to tell whether it's Kinect or the game itself that's at fault, but navigating D4 with motion controls is torture. D4 plays like a point and click adventure, and you hover your hand around to examine things. The only way to move around is to hover over different areas in the room and close your fist, which works about 70% of the time. Swiping your hand to look around, sadly, works more like 50% of the time. Both are painfully slow.

Unfortunately it also has a lot of QTEs, and there are few more infuriating combinations in the world of video games than QTEs and motion controls. Even though what's actually happening during the QTE sentences is always enjoyably bonkers – an extended fight scene aboard the plane soundtracked by what can only be described as "bagpipe punk" was a particular highlight – it's difficult to pay attention when you're flailing around trying to get Kinect to recognise your PERFECT gestures.

Too bad, it looked promising.