Sentences with phrase «console platform holders»

Cross-play has been a sticky topic for Fortnite, with console platform holders apparently holding back the feature.

All games are fully approved by local rating bodies, license holders and console platform holders for distribution in our shipping territories.

Not exact matches

The big platform holders stopped giving away free exposure and for the most part, mobile games became a known quantity where innovation started to give - way to the magnitude of execution, similarly to the time - period before it in the AAA console and PC space.

In a supplementary release (thanks, NeoGAF), the platform holder listed a few release windows and dates for many of the console's upcoming first - party titles.

The platform holder also gave us an update on PS4 consoles sold and revealed a new initiative called PlayLink with two super fun looking party games.

So if they don't include Banjo Kazooie because doing so supports a «rival» platform holder, they don't have a leg to stand on considering past guest characters (in particular Snake and Cloud) effectively advertise games they're featured in that can only be played on other consoles.

All console holders have a rigorous certification process to ensure that all games which wind up on their platform meet certain quality standards (for some fun * games industry history about why this is necessary, read up on the 1983 industry crash).

The retail market for Windows PC games gradually dried out in the early 2000s, as the benefit of not having to pay a platform holder to publish a game was offset by piracy, usability problems present with non-standard hardware and retailers like GameStop putting emphasis on the used console game market (GameStop does not buy and sell used Windows PC games).

Having Jonathan Blow leap onstage to present The Witness at the PS4 unveiling was something of a big deal for Sony, a move clearly designed to present the notion that the platform holder is serious about luring more indie talent to their next gen console.

Platform holder confirms that next Legend of Zelda title has been in development for Wii U and console successor simultaneously, and will also launch next year

The increasing complexity of games and the rising development costs were offset by the advantage of not having to run a game past a platform holder like Sony, Sega or Nintendo and pay them a license fee for putting a game out on their consoles.

Here, it's down to the platform holder to take ownership of compatibility issues, but the advantage is this: unlike PS4's boost mode, Scorpio theoretically allows for the full power of the new console to be deployed on older games.

A console version of Toybox wasn't planned at the time of the Kickstarter campaign and unfortunately, due to platform holder logistics, we are unable to send console Toybox codes to digital backers at this time.

The platform holder hasn't said how many consoles it has sold in total.

The device came up in conversation during this morning's keynote at the 2014 Develop Conference, in which PlayStation boss Andrew House and PS4 architect Mark Cerny discussed the platform holder's journey across four consoles.

When my game is to be released on consoles (Playstation, XBOX, Wii, etc.), digitally or in retail, a close collaboration with platform holders and publishers has been sought.

This has been removed on the new controller, with the platform holder reaping the benefits of faster wireless comms with the main console as a consequence.

Although, recent decisions, such as ending support for its XNA development toolset, aren't the actions of a platform holder that has games education high on the agenda for its next console.

One of the most volatile things about the console industry today is how user bases can disappear from one platform holder to another during a generational transition.

But it also shows how the platform holders have seemingly given up any hope of growing the overall audience of the consoles by appealing to the casual / family / semi — casual gamer.

At the end of the day this is all about each of the three platform holders trying to maximise revenue on hardware, retaining their customers in a software ecosystem and growing the overall install base, as well as making sure that publishers are able to succeed on console.

The concept of evolutionary consoles is nothing new and is indeed something that has been discussed in the past as being the future of consoles and it looks like all three platform holders are ready to embrace the idea this generation.

Ultimately there is still a long way to go before digital becomes the overwhelming majority in the console industry and it really will come down to the platform holders, publishers and consumers to decide how fast that shift will take.

For most it'll make sense to stick with console and most will upgrade within the same platform holder in my opinion.

If you want to see the community — professional and hobbyist alike — truly get its knickers in a twist, watch what happens when a platform - holder births a new console.

«I think that which console is the «Indies» Best Friend» is entirely dictated by the current market objectives of the platform holders,» John Ribbins of UK indie studio Roll7 — developers of Not a Hero, OlliOlli, and the forthcoming multi-platform Laser League — tells me.

Platform holder denies claims by The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson that framerate in Gears of War 4 is more consistent on slimmer console

Long story short, releasing content on any console needs to go through a long, difficult and often unpredictable certification process, a form of Quality Assurance by the platform holder, which comes after the QA done by the developer.

It shook up the major platform holders enough to revise their publishing policies, made independent games close to equals in a console's lineup and opened the door for an entirely new segment of the console market.

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It's well known how closely the big platform holders and publishers brief their retail partners before and around E3, but then the job is to convince the people in attendance and the millions watching that your console, your particular game, is the best.

Here is why the platform holder didn't bother to talk more about the future of its handheld console at E3.

Due to the lack of PS Vita focus, the handheld console players did not enjoy Sony's appearance at the recent E3 show very much, and they were left wondering what the platform holder really has in store for this $ 200 handheld video game console.

Better - informed men than I know the broadband penetration rates amongst console owners, but even in the U.S., we're still years away from platform holders being able to viably do away with retail as an option and rely solely on digital distribution.

The only platform where freemium isn't making a huge impact is on the consoles and that's because the console holders, as I understand it, are scared of it.

Platform holder Microsoft has announced that a slew of promising independent games will make their console debuts on Xbox One.