Nixxes got Spiderman Remastered and Miles Morales on PC just a few months ago. They aren't that big, I don't think they can handle multiple AAA ports at the same time.
Yeah, doesn't Sony have a solid team they use for porting, can't think of their name? Why they went with Iron Galaxy after the poop show UC port was, blows my mind.
Iron Galaxy pretty much under bids, gets a contract and tries to make things work with limited budget. There were other better studios other than Nixxes, like Sumo .... but Sony went with Iron Galaxy anyway ....
You realise them saying they released a hotfix for the pc version means nothing and doesn't mean thry literally made the hotfix.
My brother is a developer. Works for a support studio the way it works is the studio they are working for they are essentially contractors to. So any work they do on the game counts as being done by the devs behind the game. So yes Iron Galaxy ported this. But likely some of their staff are still working on contract for ND post launch to bugfix and patch issues. It would be ridiculous and waste loads of time for Iron Galaxy to go in and port the game and obviously soend ages optimising and polishing it up and bug fixing for various hardware combinations. Then the game to release for them to go off and do their own thing and ND devs to have to open up the code and trawl through and work out what's going on then fix various bugs and optimise better. Would waste so much time.
Ideally a cheap 3060Ti would be enough for the console ports, as that's roughly what they're equal to or a bit under, so yeah. It's just lazy ports going on.. The new RE performs great from what little I know.
Another half assed pc port, nothing new here. When pc components cost huge prices and what you get from it i dont understand any reasons to invest in pc gaming.
I think the price is $60 on PC… which makes 0 sense since everyone claimed next-gen games HAVE to be $70, but the industry is full of sh*t and you have things like PC games being cheaper and last-gen games like Zelda being $70 🤷♂️
A red flag to the PC Port having poor optimization was the images that were provided on Steam before the release date. Most of the images had a watermark with following text "Captured on Playstation 5".
If you look it up now, all the images were replaced and also the watermark. A very scummy marketing practice tbh.
Well, Naughty Dog contacted the infamous Iron Galaxy studio (again) for this port job ... so every PC player saw this coming ...
Why they asked Iron Galaxy of all people for the PC port?!
Well this is going to be a thing of the past since the latest ND twitter suggests they'll be developing their games for PS and PC.
PC master race.
Edit:
Whoever did the port couldn't escaped shader compilation.
Edit2: ok I've red the article... It's a bad port.
It's baffling that PS games need 4090 and other crazy spec's to run 60fps.
4090 is a $4k config with all Samsung SSD...CPU...cooler...case.
Am I wrong?
Another half assed pc port, nothing new here. When pc components cost huge prices and what you get from it i dont understand any reasons to invest in pc gaming.