Sort of selfishly
it's NOT PZ. If it's PZ, doesn't that mean supports probably ending?Why Would They Stop Making Dlcs For Planet Zoo, Their Most Profitable Game. It Could Just Be Either F1 Manager 2023 or JWE2 Going On The Switch/Switch 2.
If their console port announcement is JWE2 getting on the switch instead of PZ getting to consoles that would be pretty hilarious. But honestly given the success of Planet Zoo I still expect it to be the one that's being ported. Might also be related to the later franchise issues too?
They do say 2 successful PC games and consoles (not console singular which the switch would be)
If its planet zoo, support is near guaranteed wrapping up. Although there is a chance for support to be development alongside both, frontier is obviously needing the console profit boost to help sales. If I remember, the port over to the mac needed a complete product rather than consoles so not all hope is lost.Sort of selfishly
They could still potentially release a console version in March and continue with usual PZ dlc in April
The only mention of dlc is stating the success of jwe2 and planet zoo was supported with free updates and paid dlc, apart from that, nothing.
Aviaries and aquariums coming to console, pc players left with a swan and a couple penguins!
I guess managing content on several different platforms is more difficult than just managing on one, but I don't think it instantly means Planet Zoo would stop getting DLCs either, you gotta keep the playerbase engaged.
It all depends on where they want to apply their internal resources. They may need to shift people to new games, etc. While PZ is still doing well, it's entirely feasible that whatever new game they have in the works might do just as well. (And in fact, there's a strong argument for that because you'd have a glut of new people buying the new game plus whatever DLC is in the pipeline -- and you'd still have folks buying the existing Planet Zoo library as time goes on.)
I don't know either but... I'd imagine it's more work. I'm just not sure how much work it might be. Hah.
Im no expert on this topic, but id assume its a little more work to be done so it also works on console. But you have the advantage of offering it to more potential customers, which should be a net positive i guess.
It's most likely going to be the same engine, probably why frontier said before that older gen consoles were not going to be able to run the game but efforts were being directed into the newer gen. Its far easier to optimise a few dlcs to run on consoles than rewriting the game from scratch.
