April 15th, 2025 Livestream
Q&A: Why did the game get ported to Console?
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I'm seeing some folks wondering like why we even decided support the console, and another person mentioning that it's a huge accessibility win and that is a thing, I can't play this game without controller support so you know it was a big thing for me to to to to have that, and it's also like Satisfactory like among the genre of factory building games is a more accessible one not just when it comes to like, what you'd classically think of accessibility but also just things like the the the first person perspective in some ways is more accessible to other to some people that are more used to that, there are parts of the game that are less difficult or less punishing than maybe some other factory builders so you know there's there's there's very much a consideration for like what kind of audience we have and what kind of game we want to create and yeah absolutely porting to consoles later is difficult and it is if you look at it a certain way that is time we could have used on the PC port except that we had an external company help with a lot of this so it didn't take away as much time of from us as you'd think, and also that is our choice to make, because we think that people that have no way to play this game, now deserve to, and we'd like to we'd like to bring people in that that have disabilities and we'd like to bring people in that maybe only have a console and don't have access to a good PC that can run this so you know it's it's there's a lot of I think important reason reasons for us maybe they don't they're not important to you and that's fine but it's ultimately we we had to make that choice and we made a choice to to try to be more inclusive, rather than specialize this game even further and still we have time to continue developing this game like it's not like we're fully done like we're not going to drop this, you know so yeah I'm just I'm very happy that we have controller support now cuz I get I get to play this game now the game you made yourself yeah yeah a game I've eight years of my life in, pretty worthwhile I think I've gotta say like, it really it really has been a vibe just leaning back playing this game like oh satisfactory feels more like a game to me with a controller even during work hours like oh I'm actually playing video games during work holy moly like oh that's pretty cool