The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Sampyli]

You might start to read Thomas blog, and you would understand why most of us are 100% sure it will be on PC, it is very strange in itself that there will be a PS4 version altogether, but because of that we can only be happy for FG and their success.

This (again )

The Sony indie game exclusivity is mostly about money, because indie developers don't have enough to publish their own games, right? Well, FG earned more than enough from Amnesia to publish their own games, and most (atm all of it, since they don't have any console games) of their fan base is PC players, so there is no way it would be console exclusive.

This is from the FG blog, only 4 months after Amnesia was released. (Back then (January 2011) they had only sold about 200 thousand copies, and in September (2012) the total was about 1,36 million copies, including the Humble Indie Bundle V sales. On the top of that, they probably get a good chunk out of the AMFP sales.)

With these figures at hand, we must confess that it gives us new confidence for the PC. The sales that we have had (and are having) are more than enough to motivate developing a game with the PC as the main (and even only) platform. Based on what we have seen, the online PC market is just getting bigger and bigger, and we are convinced we are far from the end of this growth. We think that other developers that consider making their game exclusive to a console might want to think again.