Is it harder to make DLCs or something after a console release? Asking because I actually do not understand why that would mean the end of DLCs.
From a technical standpoint, it depends on their process. They'd at least have to get one or more devs on the team that develops the DLCs, so the costs of making a DLC might go up; but it's not sure if that's really going to be substantial.
The question is not really "is it harder to make DLCS when you also have a console version" but more "is it more profitable to do a console port than to do another year of creating DLCs". Because, at the end of the day, making a DLC is a costly process that involves many disciplines. You need project managers, research teams (both market and for the ingame stuff), animators, coders for new features, riggers, modellers, texture artists, etc. etc. With a console port, all your assets are already there and a huge portion of that team is no longer required.
Given that there certainly is a market for a console release ( anyone who has been on social media or on the streams has seen the demand for it), it might just really be cheaper for them to do a port to console than to keep making new DLCs. They'd still get a steady stream of income, at a much lower cost.
That being said, nothing has been fully confirmed but as
@Captain Callum has pointed out, there's really not much left in their portfolio in terms of "successful PC games" that don't have a console version atm, so PZ is the most likely candidate.
I really don’t think that „renewed focus” on their CMS games that is getting them back on track means the end of support for PZ in any way. It’s rather a promise of more support. Just sayin’
I don't think it's fair to use that paragraph as "a promise for more support". You're leaving out important context from the other financial documents in which they specifically stated that they are moving back to CMS games and that they are releasing several ones over the next 3 years. Frontier has been successful at making CMS games and has stated so in their financial documents, in the same vain they've admitted that their other games that are not within that genre are not doing as well as they expected.
It's much more a statement towards their shareholders that they're moving back their focus to CMS games than promising they're going to keep supporting their current slate of CMS games. Regardless of my stance on the likelyness of the game getting more PDLC, I think it's important to give the full context of that statement.
Regardless, "more DLC" might be what the community sees as more support; but that doesn't mean that a console port in itself isn't a form of more support. It's just not the kind of support people here are hoping for. So this renewed focuss could also be "hey, we're making more CMS games and we're porting our only non console CMS game to console as well".
Guys this is the first financial results where they have not said about future dlc for PZ or JWE2. Normally they say more dlc throughout the financial year or something.... this is worrying
This is honestly a much weirder thing than we've been giving it credit for. These financial documents have always been a way to let their shareholders/investors know what their plans are. With how nervous those have been and the financial state of the company, if they had more PDLC confirmed for this entire year; why haven't they said so? Like, they say both JWE2 and PZ are their main sources of money atm and in the past they've always included statements that explicitly pointed towards more PDLC... and now they don't?
If they're keeping that a secret, now of all times feels like the weirdest time to do so. It does not make sense why they wouldn't explicitly mention more PDLC for both games like they did in the past years if they are indeed working on more PDLC. If anything, if you are indeed planning on additional DLCs, explicitly telling so would give your (potential) investors the confidence you need them to have.
Again, I stand by what I've always said. The lack of explicit confirmation ( which, to make it clear, is something amongst the lines of "PDLC in FY25" or "PDLC throughout CY24") does not have to mean that there's not more PDLC in the coming year. But if they are giving us more, and they're not annoucing it, then it's really weird that they're doing it.
