EA and Activision will more than likely continue on via making minor updates to their current games up until 2016 or so. -- There's just too much potential money to be made to completely ignore current gen. Especially when the PS3 is still getting such awesome support which will further lead into more sales (many are getting a PS3 this year just for Last of Us and/or GT6 alone).
Many companies usually do both at the same time.
Because the Wii U is doing terrible in sales, has an outdated/low user-count online system, and is under-powered in comparison to the upcoming new consoles.
Heh, again -- you can still do both. Supporting next gen only when next gen consoles sales probably won't match current gen userbases for 5 years+ just doesn't make sense. As I (and others) have said, there's still many that recently got current gen systems.
Higher userbase + low dev cost from a simple sequel that's a basic update from the predecessor = easy money
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Eh, of course -- and they are being made because they are selling -- selling to a user base that's larger than the new console userbases (during the respective time). This added with the low cost of the games themselves (since they are usually simple games and/or basic updates) means easy money.
You are talking about how games are expensive to make... therefore why wouldn't it make sense to release games for multiple systems?
If some are in trouble now at this late point of a gen when the userbases are high then how do you think that they will do better via only releasing on new consoles that wouldn't even have half of the userbase?
I mean, we aren't talking about a "AAA" game that will get a lot of attention on its nature alone and a lot of advertising. We are talking about a "retro style" game.
The game is going to be cheap in price and therefore people who aren't into having the "latest and greatest" will more than likely be interested in it on top of the countless number of people who aren't going to get a next gen console until 2016 or later.
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The people who really want it shouldn't mind playing on the 360/PS3. I mean, we are talking about a game that will be a throwback to NES/SNES. A decent number who are supporting this game probably still have those "old school" systems hooked up.
