Cras wrote:
I thought you were objecting to the fact that it was a staggered release for another platform, rather than the fact it was the order of current/last gen. So the PC release of GTA seemed a valid comparison in that sense.
And releasing the last gen version later would make sense - it's not going to be the market you're targeting where most of your sales are going to be, so it's a lower development priority.
No, it was specifically the idea of doing this gen first then last gen a whole year later on I was on about. Your second paragraph even speaks to my reason for thinking it suspect; which is that a chunk of your market will have moved to the current gen platforms by the first release date and if you're not releasing for last gen until a whole 'nother year has passed then your market for those platforms has shrunk even further again.
Granted I genuinely have no idea what the split of sales for cross-gen games is between P33/360 and PS4/Xbone is at the moment but my instinct is that by the time the current gen hardware has been around for over two years you're not going to be making a whole load of cash on previous gen consoles.
Heh, although it's worth noting that all of the above was based on an initial misreading of that Reddit thing such that I thought the timeline had a whole year between the current and prev gen releases. I've no idea why I thought that and I realised on re-checking just there that I'd imagined it making a bit of a nonsense of everything I've just said!