It makes a lot of sense, all of these games are developed with PC in mind now. They're obviously not doing a complete day/date PC release. But simultaneous development is still happening to make Nixxes job easier. It's why Spider-Man 2 pc port was done by amateurs in 3 months, and the PS5 release suffered for it.
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Games getting more complex is 100% Nixxes handles ports thts 100% whatever else ya going on with the PC versus console nonsense I want no part of nor did I read that deep. People can have more than one opinion or differing. Ya need to stop with tht either it's this way or that way mentality. Let ppl live and don't let others opinions bother ya so muchIt makes a lot of sense, all of these games are developed with PC in mind now. They're obviously not doing a complete day/date PC release. But simultaneous development is still happening to make Nixxes job easier. It's why Spider-Man 2 pc port was done by amateurs in 3 months, and the PS5 release suffered for it.
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I mean, the openly xenophobic tone of the FT article says it all, doesn't it?
no, this isn't a matter of opinion, its facts. And he's wrong, and I'm right (as always)Games getting more complex is 100% Nixxes handles ports thts 100% whatever else ya going on with the PC versus console nonsense I want no part of nor did I read that deep. People can have more than one opinion or differing. Ya need to stop with tht either it's this way or that way mentality. Let ppl live and don't let others opinions bother ya so much
But it does mate sense.
The way most games are developed nowadays, the PC version is basically the lead version, they can compile a barebones PC version quite easily. A company like Nixxes will step in to fine tune it though. It doesn't make the console version of a game more bug prone. A prime example of this is the leaked Wolverine build from Insomniac. It runs on PC.
And that's the problem. Having ND step in and fix TLOU port. Want Nixxes to port games? Go ahead. But having the original studio have to divert resources because Nixxes can't handle it is a major issue that could affect dev across the board. Then everyone loses.
Got any issues to get it to work with older emulators? Series X controller works fine but DS has issues.
Lots of issues with apps that don't support it natively. You can install DS4Windows to make it emulate a XInput controller, but it's kind of janky. I've got a Xbox controller and a SCUF Envision Pro for games that don't utilize the DualSense natively.
Here's a pretty informative story on how The Crew was developed and brought to PS4:
www.eurogamer.net
I made a whole thread on this, I am aware, not to mention consoles are basically fixed pcs. Most development of course is happening on pcs lol 3d models, coding, etc and such. I think most here know that or I hope they do. Microsoft was caught a few times showing off Xbox exclusive games supposedly running on Xbox but we're really pcs with Xbox specs.Here's a pretty informative story on how The Crew was developed and brought to PS4:
How The Crew was ported to PlayStation 4
Ubisoft Reflections tells the story of how it brought the new Ivory Tower driving game to PS4.
Practically all games are developed on PC to some degree even if it's not a release target, because all the tools are on PC. That said, we don't know how much prior PS4/PS5 games had work done on PC by the first party team. The Spiderman 2 leak is the best thing we have to go by. I don't think we've seen any hint of Naughty Dog having a PC build of Uncharted 4 (for example) prior to the actual port announcement.
You're not wrong that simultaneous development affects development, requires some extra resources, etc, but it is very small in the scope of a $100M+ AAA production. If the budget on a Nixxes porting job is $2-5M, we're talking like 1-2M extra to maintain a PC port from the inception of the project AND the resulting quality will be better. It's a hell of a lot harder to come in as a contractor/support team and get to grips with a code base you've never seen before.
In the ideal situation, whether day and date release or not, first party teams will maintain their own ports from the start. The value of Nixxes is more like how Bungie consults on live service projects across Playstation. They can provide all kinds of PC-related best practices the console-oriented teams haven't considered before. Issues like how to handle multi-monitor, or simultaneous keyboard/gamepad inputs, or graphics settings, etc. Nixxes shouldn't be the ones doing a full blown port after all the code/assets are finalized. They're good at it yeah, but it'll never get the best result.
So then the issue is: you've got a high quality, release-able product on day one. Do you sit on it for 5-6 years while it drops in value just to appease people on message boards? Of course you don't.
It's just getting less and less of an issue. APIs are better now than 15 years ago. Vulkan targets almost every platform you'd want other than Xbox, which might be dying anyway. intel and amd cpus HAVE to be compatible with eachother. More important applications than videogames rely on x86 binaries executing the same on either CPU brand. There's more room for divergence between AMD and Nvidia, but look what we see in practice: every game dev must target AMD gpus b/c consoles have them, and then Nvidia typically outperforms AMD on PC. If it was so hard to support both, wouldn't we see the first class citizen AMD running away with performance wins?
OH I agree that gap has closed but again my point still stands. And it was made perfectly clear why these consoles have similar architecture and why it would help multiple hardware development in the end and why PS3 was such an issue lol your preaching to the choir at this pint.
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