VBlank: PS Dev Tools Very Well Built, PS4 & PS Vita Getting Next Title
VBlank Entertainment, developer of Retro City Rampage: DX, celebrated today’s game launch on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PS Vita by hosting an AMA session on the PS4 subreddit, with Brian Provinciano - the creator of the game - providing some interesting replies which we’ve highlighted below. First of all, VBlank seemed very happy about their work with PlayStation:
PlayStation’s been great to work with, and their development tools are very well built.
He also confirmed that the next title will surely support both PlayStation 4 and PS Vita:
I’m eager to do the next thing and definitely will support PS4 and PS Vita for the next thing too.
Another user asked about the chance to see the game on Xbox One, since Retro City Rampage launched on Xbox 360, but VBlank seemed negative on that:
Finally, he clarified how the CrossBuy works:
My initial intent was for there to be a small upgrade for existing owners, but Sony in the end couldn’t set that up. They’ve done it for some games, but couldn’t make an exception here. Due to the way things worked, I couldn’t do the PS4 upgrade and make it still 3X Cross Buy — it would either have needed to all be free, or all be paid. Since the original was free for PS+ members, that would be a heck of a lot of PS4 copies given away for free and I needed to ensure the development costs were recouped. The short of it is that it’s launched at a $7.99 PS+ price ($9.99 without) for PS4+PS3+VITA together, which is almost half what the original launched at, but still unfortunate for existing paying owners. I wish I could’ve rewarded the original owners who paid full price, but it’s not a flexible enough system to do that.
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