PS plus, a curse for developers? It was devastating

When Oddworld: Soulstorm appeared about a year ago in April 2021, it became directly part of the "free" games for PS-Plus customers of this month. Like Lorne Lanning, the President of Oddworld Inhabitants now explained in a podcast interview with the YouTube channel Xbox Expansion Pass, this was considered absolutely desastrous for the company. Sony should not worry about this.

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PS-PLUS-DEAL turned out to be a big mistake

With the developer studio behind the oddworld series, the production of oddworld: soulstorm probably became some financial problems. At this time Sony took on contact with the company to propose a deal to Oddworld inhabitants.

"Sony said," Hey, why do not we do a deal? "We offer our game for a month for PS-Plus for a month, but we should deliver Oddworld: Soulstorm in January. Only a few people had a console. We asked us How many units we could sell at all. "_

What initially sounded after a pretty good business for the oddworld developers, however, was completely nuclear by the Corona pandemic. Thanks to the complicated working conditions, the production of the title took a little longer, which threw the schedule of developers pretty much out of the train.

_ "Then Covid simply kicked us completely in the stomach, because we had to develop distributed throughout the planet. Now every studio we worked with, in the Lockdown, all works from home and nobody can do the person next to give yourself a controller_. "

_ "That's a long way to say that we needed the money to complete the project, and we thought we had a pretty good business because we got so much money. Most of what we could sell is Less than the money we could get. So we have completed the deal. "_

_ "The deal was a free month. We thought we might sell 50,000 units for publication or maybe 100,000. They were pretty small quantities because it would not give many PS5s and looked like the Lockdown also looked like the number of machines produced effect. There would be bottlenecks in retail, which would be a good thing for our deal. Then there would not be as many consoles to get the free game. But because it only appeared in April Oddworld: Soulstorm The most frequently downloaded game on the PlayStation 5. At the end of the day it approached almost four million units or something because they were all subscribers. For us it was devastating. "_

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Overall, the entire situation ran unfortunately for oddworld inhabitants. Lanning himself does not blame Sony, because of course, the company had no influence on the events. Meanwhile, there are oddworld: Soulstorm also in an enhanced edition, which also appeared for Xbox consoles. Sony, on the other hand, recently announced a complete restructuring of your PS-Plus model, which will also include the benefits of PS-NOW in the future.

Source: wccfech.com

From Daniel Link author 14.04.2022 at 19:14