This is from Insomniac ransomware leak regarding PC.
On top of that Spider-Man 2 and Wolverine already have PC builds.
So it seems like Jim Ryan sees the value of Playstation exclusives as worth less than 30 million and an email. No wonder so many flops were allowed to be released.
And no wonder Insomniac games after Ratchet have looked less impressive to me, why are they also developing PC builds simultaneously with PS5. That defeats the whole purpose of pushing a fixed hardware to its limits.
Pro-tip: all videogames, including the console only videogames, are developed in PCs.
To ease internal testing, debugging, prototyping or bugfixes we make PC builds even if the game isn't intended to be released on PC. In my case, I've been working now on a UE VR game (just completed a vertical slice) and we made builds to play them on PC using a standard monitor (in addition to Quest 2 builds), even if -as of now- don't plan to release a non-VR version, but it's something we may evaluate in the future.
Because there are a ton of things that can be developed, tested and prototyped in the PC, no need to do it in the final hardware.
And well, according to the leaked slide $30M was the cost of the full Spider-Man Remastered project, not its PC port.
It defeats the whole purpose of purchasing Nixxess (and arguably BluePoint but let's see what their new IP is, I guess). Nixxess should port afterwards, why are 1P devs making concurrent development sku's for PC.
They bought Nixxes to port afterwards and to keep the devs from studios like Insommniac free from porting other than maybe a handful guys supporting them from time to time.
PC builds from games like Wolverine are for internal prototyping and testing in any dev computer that needs it, specially now that many people works remotely.
The idea of having teams like Nixxes, Valkyrie or external ones like Iron Galaxy is that: to port afterwards. Even if once they ported some games pretty likely introduced some stuff to ease future ports of games made in that engine leaving almost no work required to do the port.
Will switch 2 offer 2007 IQ standards at least? They need to do that before giving anyone a wake up call.
I expect it to offer PS4 IQ standards + some extra trick like low tier RT or DLSS to make them look nicer. Seen in a smaller screen less detail is needed, so maybe the impression will be playing something like between PS4 Pro and Series S.
PC+Steam is the only platform that lasts in the long term. Not because of PC master race shit, just purely because consoles by nature must push you to the Next Big Thing.
One thing of modern consoles using tweaked PC hardware is this: to ensure BC. But both in consoles and PC, for games that require servers once the game doesn't generate enough the servers are shut down.
