It’s never been an issue with system limitations, consoles could have run it from day dot. The sub is probably a bigger barrier to get it on console. Yes, I am aware of FF14 on console but it doesn’t have the following of the FF series on consoles.
They would also have to rewrite the game to get it to run on console and again if they want it on both consoles. FF14 is still not on XBox.
Blizzard’s a very conservative company when it comes to developing features. They’ve been burnt before with undelivered promises. Remember the (lack of) dance studio.
Ray tracing is a fairly new thing for PC games so they were probably trying it out and wanted to mange expectations in case it never worked out well, or took longer than they planned. The 64 bit client was an open beta on live for a good while.
I would never say 100% no but there’s going to be a limited market for WoW on console. Blizzard dont do things unless they think it’ll be a success.
Firstly, it’s going on for it’s eighth expansion - who’s going to want to skip 8 expansions worth of content for a ‘new’ game to get to end game.
MMORPGs are not that popular any more, and the amount of grind you still need to do is not going to be popular to a console playerbase.
The reason why Blizz is redoing leveling in Shadowlands is because everybody wants to skip 8 expansions to get to the current content. That’s like asking “Who’s gonna skip 11 AC games to play AC: Valhalla”. Everybody is gonna do it.
WoW doesn’t need to sell all that much on the PS5 - 1 million copies would mean 60 million dollars, + 15 million a month, and you can bet supporting the same game on console isn’t going to cost 15 million a month, so it’ll be a profitable venture. But it’ll probably sell more than a million copies, IF! it comes on the PS5 with 10.0. Releasing it now on the PS5 will be a failure. Consoles grow over time, initial adoption numbers are always relatively low. Even if the PS5 is sold out, Sony anticipates low adoption rate, so they’re porting almost every PS5 exclusive back to the PS4 as well (cuz it has like 100 million users)
I’m already predicting 10.0 will kind of serve as a reset to the game, and I think that is when WoW will also expand to consoles.
Well, i never tried it, so cant realy say it cant work, but as i said, i cant realy see it work on higher pvp rating (like shown in video) with something that aint “turet style”, u know, u can pretty much play m+/bgs with one hand…
But for real, if someone is creative and wanna put time in config and play on controler for whatever reason, let him, just dont bring it on PS5, or whatever else console we have rn, just look at diablo, difference between PC and console is rather huge, when it comes to gameplay…
FF14 base global is 2.5 seconds. While you can play with a controller you can tell those players by the way they move. Less experienced player are quite bad with a controller.
