The Part 2 Remaster will be leveraging the technical engine work Naughty Dog (or whoever is doing this port) that Naughty Dog did for the Part 1 PS5 Remaster and the work to bring Part 2 to PC. The PS5 version is simply a cash-grab by-product of that work, which was happening anyway.
Hopefully. I get the feeling that they're probably scared shitless of releasing another junky port. Not only for the potential damage to their reputation and Sony's PC initiative.. but also having to deal with and correcting any issues in the aftermath.
Yes really. If you honestly think a remaster and a whole new, purely next gen title would be the same amount of work and that they're only choosing to do this instead of a new game, you simply dont have any clue how game development works.
Views like this baffle me because you're ascribing emotion to a corporation. Sony isn't "scared" of a janky port, at most there may be recognition on a spreadsheet of risks that a poor launch will equate to deferred sales.
This idea that corporations dont care about their reputation or product quality is bizarre. Playstation especially is built on brand reputation and they absolutely take it very seriously. There's a reason they put the kibosh on something like a Days Gone sequel, because the first one did not have the critical acclaim they are looking for in their major releases. They genuinely do have pretty high standards.
I didn't say that, and I agree that Sony care about PlayStation, but it's quite clear the greater majority of PC game publishers are really not fussed about releasing poor ports of games on PC. That's a different prospect entirely.
Where I see a clear line is that Sony have never released a first party game is such a bad technical state as they have done on PC. And I think there is a simple reason for this, and Sony was really up front about their PC initiate from day one, it was about bringing in a little extra money for creative works that were created for PlayStation. Because game sales on PC are far below PlayStation, they are likely working to much tighter budgets for these ports and that includes QA.
It's figurative language.
My understanding of the model used by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, is that if titles are paid for and pass the TRCs of the platform, they can be sold. Only this can explain the plethora of shit shovelware that exists on these and other (Apple, Google) platforms.
So do I and I never made this argument. Maybe you were responding to somebody else.
This has always been an incredibly bizarre argument, and it's basically a continuation of the argument we're already having. This idea that devs/pubs just dont care(which yes, is what you're ultimately saying).
No, I'm not saying that. I literally just said this in my comment above, which I'll just re-insert here.
So do I and I never made this argument. Maybe you were responding to somebody else.
That has literally been my whole point. Except where you think the problem is that they just 'dont care enough'(for whatever reason), I'm saying there are more fundamental issues, since they seem to be affecting just about everybody, regardless of the perceived quality of the studios in question.
