January 24th, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Console release or phone?

January 24th, 2023 Livestream

Q&A: Console release or phone?

https://youtu.be/9dd4paImT1E

This question was possibly duplicated with a more recent answer: January 30th, 2024 Livestream Q&A: Any chance of getting partial controller support back? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3mySmbyMjo

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Json console release or phone okay so this is, here we go this is a good this is a good clip Marv clip and ship this one, so as for console release or phone release at the moment we are focusing only on PC I don't see a phone release ever happening by the way, console has always been something that like I think we're interested in but there's a lot of things that, first of all we want to focus on PC because we don't want to get sidetracked with all the work that comes with, having your game Run smoothly on multiple platforms, if we were to do that then development progression is going to start going really really slowly, so we're focusing on PC, the idea of having console is definitely something that we would like maybe it's a thing we could have in the future who knows but right now we're just focusing on PC another major issue for console is that we would have to make sure our UI works really well with controllers and stuff like that so again that's more additional time that we'll need to assign, to make things work that isn't going to be going into pushing the game's design forward and we have had this approach with our development of satisfactory where we really really really really just want to prioritize figuring out what we the game needs and making the things that the game needs, to get to the finish line so right now I think console is kind of taking a bit of a back seat, but it could be a thing it could be a thing though PlayStation 8. yeah at least surely