Virtuos has helped bring a number of games both past and present to Switch over the past few years. The company’s efforts include Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, Dark Souls: Remastered, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and The Outer Worlds. With new consoles arriving later in 2020, Virtuos’ porting efforts will expand.
Following the closure of 4 studios, many are now worried for the future of Ninja Theory once Hellblade 2 is released.
Meant better to sell the studio and not closing it 🤦🏻 not to sell more games….
and games are sold anyways, you can buy it on xbox (not recommended if you got gamepass) but many pc gamers prefer to buy on steam than deal with the xbox app or pc gamepass!
On a side note to OP, the sales of studios wont happen though, especially when they want to retain the IPs, and well nobody is gonna buy a studios without its IPs; the other publishers that want a certain dev from the studio that are closing on their team can try to grab them as soon as they see they notice of the studio.
@Sephiroushin
Well hypothetically speaking, Ninja Theory can be sold to Sony at a lower rate sans the Hellblade IP.
Sony can then welcome them to work on the Heavenly Sword IP, which they still own.
Will be a nice proposition for Sony who can continue to offer a God of War-like hack n slash in their portfolio via Heavenly Sword 2, whilst Cory Barlog & co. decides to take a break from the God of War IP & venture some other genres.
On top of that, Ninja Theory was also interested in a sequel to Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and such Sony can come to a deal with Namco Bandai regarding the Enslaved IP.
Because they're next come next year. HB2 won't hit some impossible metric within MS so they're getting axed in 2025. Leave gaming now MS.
Every xbox studio is in danger now because there’s just no way they’re gonna rake in big money from game sales because of gamepass, even CoD was rumored to not come to gamepass because it would canibalize their sales number.
If they are smart they don’t put COD on GP day one. It’s one of the best selling games on yearly basis
Satya will make sure that doesnt happen. As you rightly put it; why kill the cash cow?
But then again, it is MS after all.....
Ninja theory games were never big sellers. I could be wrong, but I doubt hellblade 2 will sell millions. I would rather they go independent and make heavenly sword 2.
heavenly sword is Sony owned IP. this will never happen as original didn't sell enough...
Wikipedia: "In 2008, it was reported that a sequel to Heavenly Sword was in-development at SCE Studio Cambridge, but was canceled due to Sony no longer seeing it as a commercially viable product"
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Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson stated in a recent EA Earnings Call, that the next Battlefield "it is going to be another tremendous live service.”
Another? ANOTHER?
Is he honestly trying to make out like the last Battlefield was a huge success, not just as a game but as a live service game? I'm sure these guys live in their own echo chambers, they are so far removed from reality or they just like talking out of their arse trying to rewrite history.
Also why say such a tone deaf statement when you know the state of live service games at the minute and how many gamers feel about them. Bigging up the next BF game as live service does not give me any excitement or hype.
This is nothing too new
https://www.eurogamer.net/e...
They had plans of a universe of live service games
Also these studios made 2042 there is no new massive team its the same team
https://www.eurogamer.net/t...
Well same team minus the seattle boys that were canned
https://gamerant.com/ea-bat...
This is all again same news different year but it seems very few remember what happened before covid.
Virtuos is no small team, with over 1500 in their staff right now. Good to see Switch porting devs planning to keep them coming into next gen. By the time the full potential of these new consoles are realized in practice, Switch 2 should be here or not far off anyway.
It will be interesting to see how this works out, even if only for the tech aspect of it.
The switch couldn't handle the "options" menu of a ps5 game
Although a nice thought, the Series X and PS5 will be operating on a level far, far beyond what the Switch can handle even with down porting. You all around here sat there patting the team on the back that managed to get Witcher 3 on the Switch, and that game was already several years old and basically had to be ported at the equivalent of low settings on PC.
The more advanced you get, the tougher it gets to downport in a competent fashion. Eventually you have to start cutting so many corners that even if you can have the claim to fame of getting the game running, it will be so vastly inferior to its counterparts that only someone truly desperate for a mobile iteration would spend their time on it.
If you need an example of how rough porting a game newer than Witcher 3 can get, just look at Bethesda's efforts in bringing their more recent games to Switch. Do they run okay? Sure. Look alright? If you aren't too picky, I suppose. Would someone with the option willingly take the Switch version over any other version? Generally that's a firm no. As the power gap continues to widen, even Bethesda is eventually going to give up, and Nintendo will either need to get back into playing the power game or give up on major third party support altogether.
That is great news. Put the games on all platforms. Tone them down to run on each platform as good as possible and that is best for all gamers and Nintendo has done such a great job with the Switch it deserves to keep getting 3rd party support. That is best for the industry and gamers.
Brutal. The disparities are about to get 10x wider than they already are.