This just reinforces my point though. 

Timed exclusivity to PlayStation, once it expires they can and did release on PC. The (admittedly still rumored but almost certain to be true) info we have is that the deal precluded ever releasing it on an Xbox system.

If it was not true, Sony would say so as it would undermine Microsoft’s case. Plus it’s completely obvious.

Perhaps it’s time to take a step back and instead of asking if it *can* be saved, asking if it *should* be saved. At this point the franchise has more mediocre to bad films than it does good, and the general premise of the whole thing feels pretty well mined-out. 

Right. The reason it isn’t supported is because they chose not to support it. Technical limitations can be worked around but you have to actually plan time to do it.

I had no idea, ran into him just as I was completing a quest objective in a dungeon, the one that unlocks your specialization stuff at 15. Kited him and got him to about 50% health before he killed me, then reloaded at checkpoint which was literally right past where I had died where the objective was and the guy was…

Yeah, there’s this weird technical limitation which made it so that it was impossible to develop anything for anything but the PS5 at launch. They’re working on it but don’t think they can fix it in time, it’s going to take extra time before they can get over this hurdle and release it for the PC, probably needs…

Ragnarok was in essence a PS4 game with a PS5 port though, there’s a good chance that it might not have needed to break up the areas the same on PS5 but I bet you it did need to be broken down a bit on PS4.

Worse.

How does KotOR get a pass because “Sony partially funded it” but Redfall doesn’t when Microsoft *wholly* funds it?

This happened like 2 years ago, it’s a brand new game that was already in development, and Microsoft *never* said that all Bethesda games would stay cross-platform forever, they said it would be a case by case situation and depend on the economics of it.

Halo crawled so CoD could run.

“The COD that released in 2013 was Ghosts, and the series hasn’t really evolved in any meaningful way since then”

That’s never going to happen.

To be fair: they did.

Fair. I should say the mainline yearly franchise has IMO *probably* peaked, or if not yet it’s going to soon. Not saying that sales are declining yet (though the 2023 offering will almost certainly sell less than MWII did, it was a big sales outlier) but that they are at the point they’re hitting diminishing returns,…

Sega built their competitor products because EA were not supporting the platform. 

Ironic that you bring that up, because it’s pretty much what happened when Sony signed an exclusivity agreement to keep all of EA’s sports games off the Dreamcast. Sega was forced to create their own NFL franchise (NFL 2k) which was arguably the best out there in the early 2000s, but was subsequently cut off at the…

I think a more charitable read of it is that a decade is a fucking long time in video games, CoD has already peaked, and that they can’t guarantee the game will even still be relevant in 2033 let alone sign deals into perpetuity that guarantee Sony access to the franchise on their shiny new PlayStation 7. 

Those potential problems and liabilities are the reason that Activision dipped so low that Microsoft could afford to absorb them in the first place though.