Translation: We believe our players are dumb enough to shell out the money, so we’ll charge what we can. Get rekt.
Agreed it’s deeply cynical on their part…but the sad thing is that people will happily hand over their money for it.
Genuinely, I would.
If only they appealed to me as a consumer at all. If I want to play it, I have an Xbox and it’s much cheaper on there. What I really wanted was a PC port, which they didn’t launch. Instead, because of the Switch port, not only am I not paying them, I’m just slightly more likely to pirate it and emulate if I ever get the hankering to play.
I would’ve paid $50 for a PC port on Steam.
these damn fools porting it to the two most popular platforms instead of the one you in particular wanted. they should fire whoever made that choice smh
I mean, yes? People have been waiting on this game for 13 years and PC has only gotten more popular since. Rather than do the three most popular platforms that the game isn’t on, they did two. If they’ve managed to port it to the Nintendo Switch of all things, they can spit out a half-baked PC port.
I mean you can ignore the slew of other older games getting ported to PC over the years, be it the Xbox exclusives, PlayStation exclusives, Capcom console exclusives (Dragons Dogma, Dead Rising, Devil May Cry), absolutely countless numbers of JRPGs and similar, and more, but that doesn’t make me the ignorant one.
Comically Accurate*
Remaster it on the RDR2 engine and bring it to PC and I’ll happily pay $80 CAD for it.
That’s the sucker’s price. Wait a bit & it will drop.
Considering the stories of the code base being an absolute mess, I can see how there might be a floor in what they can charge due to the labour cost of making it functional on PS4 and Switch. Even if the port is the barest of bones, or even a hot mess.
At least it will make it easier to emulate on Linux 😄
No one is saying that it should be free. The issue is that $50 for a straight port of a 13 year-old game is ridiculous when Sony’s competitor offers free backwards compatibility—and 4K upscaling. Microsoft absorbed their expenses for that as the cost of doing business, and it would be a blip on Rockstar’s balance sheet as well, since they make a perpetual avalanche of money from GTA Online. There’s really no credible justification for a price this high.
Microsoft only did that because their first party output over the last decade was embarrassingly bad.
It’s my all time favourite game and $29 is the max I would pay for a switch port. I guess I will wait for sales.
A remastered Steam edition, however…
