It's not about A vs B, it's about Shenmue wasting an opportunity to sell well on a platform that has been growing for years.
@Tosh Having some "casual" gamers playing Shenmue wouldn't have been a bad thing for sales, you know. Casual PC gamers don't even know about EGS, they just open Steam and see new games being advertized.
It's not about being optimistic or acting as the #1 fan who'll be happy anyway because we'll be able to play this game anyway. This is about being realistic and realizing that a big opportunity to let people know about this saga and play it has been wasted.
yes, but then again, you cant calculate or include random people who might have bought it on Steam because
they found the product site. maybe it would be a huge thing, maybe not.
that works with games like GTA or Final Fantasy, but not with every game.
the thing is that Epic, YS Net and Deep Silver know this too. its not like we have more inside knowledge than they have.
Deep Silver already released big Epic exclusive games, so they must know in which way it does affect numbers.
and then even if we lose 10, 20, 30 ... whatever % worldwide because of Epic, that doesnt mean that no one will play on PC,
there will be a audience on PC, Steam included or not.
and we still have the worldwide PS4 retail market and for example China has their own PC platform.
so we "sacrificed" a very very loud group of people, but just because they are very loud,
doesnt mean that they are the biggest audience worldwide for this product. they arent.
we can still make Shenmue 3 a success 100% with the Epic and PS4 people.
the only thing that could "backstab" us, is if the game would be full of bugs and unplayable because of horrible performance.
but that is not in our hands.