The game was well-received, sold multiple millions of copies, and was said to have a very sane development budget.

  • urushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moe
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    20 hours ago

    Sorry my comment wasn’t super well written, but what I meant was: Sony stops PC sales for super popular game thinking they’ll sell more playstations. Playstation prices go up because of ram so now they’re neither selling playstations or the pc port. In order to recoup their losses from their shit business decision they go after whatever they can to suck the marrow, and sucker punch is next on the list. I was implying that if they had let the studio work on the PC port they likely would have made far more money of its sales and perhaps this wouldn’t have happened to the studio.

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      18 hours ago

      Because of their poor marketing efforts, like putting out PC ports at random years-long delays after the fact and still at full price, they actually made very little from most of their PC ports, so there’s not much money left on the table relative to what they were making before. I think this was going to happen to this studio regardless. Everyone is tightening their belts.