Nah because you are literally asking developers to spend time to create a demo for a game 2 years out, that also recently suffered a set back. We don't even know what is really going on with Insomniac or what they could have even possibly thrown out. There is literally no upside to dropping a demo 2 years out - for fan service. Screams entitlement because them pesky PC players have a buggy incomplete build , that does nothing but ruin the game for them or anyone who watches it.
What setbacks did Wolverine suffer due to the ransomware leak? Game development wasn't impeded due to that; it was just a bad look for Insomniac. Unfortunate, but it happened and the incomplete build is out there (on PC). They didn't suddenly stop development on the game because of that ransomware hack, but yeah morale may've taken a dip and that could've slowed down some parts of the pipeline.
Only for a brief bit though, maybe a few days or a week at most. Again, these are professionals and they can't sulk forever due to a leaked build of the game. If anything, personal info getting out with the hack would've caused larger complications than the build leaking, but at that point it's up to SIE and Sony to assure the affected devs that they'll be fully taken care of, compensated etc. if anything got compromised, and all proper legal channels/options taken BTS.
Devs creating demos for E3 literally took them up to 6 months to create according to Naughty Dog. Why would yoi ask them to pull resources from the game, considering how long games are now taking to be made.
Well, studios like Insomniac are large enough to where a portion of the studio could just work on building out a demo while the rest of the devs work on the main game. Game development isn't linear, and it isn't just one part at a time.
Then you go and say they must crunch to make this short demo, that may not even reflect the final game in anyway
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It could have a positive effect on the final game, in helping get certain assets potentially finished faster, if the team selected the right portion to build a demo out of. Especially if those are assets that will be present in a lot of the game, therein getting a good amount of asset contents knocked out of the way.
I never understood this mentality that demos were/are inherently bad or can only impede development. In some cases, demos can even help guide development along a better path because they can force the team to decide on certain design decisions that help shape the rest of the game. I think some people took the visual downgrades some games got, as the only thing of worth out of demos and that's why they demonize them nowadays (among other reasons).
If a short Wolverine demo will somehow alleviate your discontent with the PS5 then you might as well sell the system (and I am not saying that's what you should do), but if anyone feels that way, just get rid of the system lol.
That's a bit of a reach to make IMO.
I wasn't too impressed with Spiderman 2, but the team that worked on Spiderman 2 isn't necessarily involved with Wolverine... Why should one team that's already suffered with their game getting leaked now be subjected to crunch to make it up to Spiderman 2 buyers.
It's not that they should feel "obligated" or forced to "make things up" with anyone. It's that there could be genuine would-be customers who might be a bit more weary due to what Spiderman 2 did (or didn't do) for them. To those types, they aren't going to necessarily know or care about the nuance of specific development teams that to them all share the same Insomniac name.
And again using terms like "subjugated" makes it sound like I'm asking they should be forced to. That's not the case. SIE should incentivize them to want to make a more polished small-slice demo, if anything. Make it worth the team's while, don't force them into doing it "or else".
The die hards aren't the majority when it comes to Insomniac sales..there is literally no upside to anything you're asking for.
No but like the diehards when it comes to buying consoles (particularly early on), the diehards in this case are the ones who are always there Day 1 (usually, barring any drop in interest), and whose support play a key part in driving WOM and hype to get the sales that come later from non-diehards.
That WOM and hype is essentially free marketing for SIE, it would be foolish to not put any value in it.
