Excited to announce that the talented Dutch studio Nixxes Software will be joining PlayStation Studios. It's a real pleasure to welcome a team with such deep technical expertise and vast experience to the @Playstation family. Huge congrats to everyone @NixxesSoftware!
They did really good work on the up-port of "Tomb Raider" reboot, but their down-port of "Rise of the Tomb Raider" to XB360 was probably even more impressive from a technical point of view.
Side note: I wonder if Nintendo has sniffed around acquiring Panic Button.
They did really good work on the up-port of "Tomb Raider" reboot, but their down-port of "Rise of the Tomb Raider" to XB360 was probably even more impressive from a technical point of view.
It seems that Sony is taking the MS route and is following the money with PC gaming. The PlayStation Experience is really going to make the PS5 optional. 😎
On one hand, they're a porting house, so this suggests Sony might be looking for more expertise for multi-platform ports, specifically to PC.
On the other hand, we might be looking at another Aspyr situation; a porting house looking to take the next step and start making their own products, and have secured the resources to do just that.
While this acquisition could mean more ports to PC, given the history that Pedro posted, I'm more apt to believe we'll be seeing more remasters or upgrades from earlier gens.
Meanwhile, the Xbox Series GDK natively supports PC, so, no "porting" necessary.
One of the many benefits of the Series X/S' intelligent design.
They don't make you buy the same game twice either.
No Cross-Buy, Cross Save, Cross Progression, no Trophies, no friend-lists or PSN API baked-in, etc....
They're enjoying literally none of the "shared ecosystem" benefits of porting games to PC. Which makes me question what Sony even has to gain with their current PC-PS5 strategy outside of a small short-term revenue bursts years after the fact.
And even that is weakened by the fact that til' recently, they weren't even publishing the ports of their own games themselves on PC, even further reducing their revenue cut. So who the hell even knows lol.
I'm not surprise if anyone hasn't heard of them as they normally take care of PC ports of Square Enix games, as far as anyone knows. They did Tomb Raider & The Avengers.
Well, it's no secret that Sony is gradually porting their old first-party games to the PC to milk money from PC gamers. It's no surprise that they buy a company that is good at the job such as Nixxes.
good dev for making ports. I assume this is to port their games to PC. Actually a good move by sony. If it's true I could probably skip the PS5 and just play horizon 2 on PC. nothing else is worth playing that isn't on other platforms
Well, it's no secret that Sony is gradually porting their old first-party games to the PC to milk money from PC gamers. It's no surprise that they buy a company that is good at the job such as Nixxes.
It seems that Sony is taking the MS route and is following the money with PC gaming. The PlayStation Experience is really going to make the PS5 optional. 😎
I'd be ok with that. The less hardware I have to buy the better.
Interesting. Just read on PushSquare that it seems according to Hermen Hulst that they will be used across all the various internal studios to assist the devs with polish; presumably to release games faster.
Hulst - "Nixxes will be a strong asset for everyone across PlayStation Studios, helping our teams focus on their most important goal, which is to create unique PlayStation content at the best possible quality.”
Good to see cows so happy more PS titles coming to PC. Great acquisition for Playstation studios.
Just read this quote from known Sony shill site PushSquare, "Nixxes is widely considered to be PC port specialists, and will likely contribute towards PlayStation’s larger strategy of bringing more first-party titles to Steam and the Epic Games Store." Great take from the Sony insiders.
This is an acquisition I can stomach, they're specialized in porting games from one platform to another and this could result in games being available to more people provided that this is still what the studio will do after Sony buys them.
Damn, cows was hoping for ANOTHER port studio but instead they got this one which mostly ports to PC.
Yeah, so PC gamers can now double dip when the games reach PC.
This is easily a win for Sony.
No need to double dip though, Just have wait for the definitive PC version to release. No buying a PS5 or the console version necessary, Great win for PC gamers.
Damn, cows was hoping for ANOTHER port studio but instead they got this one which mostly ports to PC.
Yeah, so PC gamers can now double dip when the games reach PC.
This is easily a win for Sony.
No need to double dip though, Just have wait for the definitive PC version to release. No buying a PS5 or the console version necessary, Great win for PC gamers.
PC gamers historically double dip. It's ok, we paid thousands of dollar for our PCs, we can double dip.
@wonderwinner: Those days are gone, friend. Based Sony bringing in PC porting experts ensures hermits across the globe of access to PS games. Great win for PC gamers, cows punching air.
@wonderwinner: Those days are gone, friend. Based Sony bringing in PC porting experts ensures hermits across the globe of access to PS games. Great win for PC gamers, cows punching air.
Can't see how this is bad for cows, since this means more sales to Sony, hence, more market share, leading to higher budget and better games. It's an easy win for Sony and PC.
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