The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

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Frictional already made two successful games which probably situated them more than enough to make ends their way, collaborating with Sony is just another step to greatness.
Their situation is far from The Chinese Room who only made one successful short game based on a mod, and one game published by Frictional, in this case The Chinese Room is the only one who needs outside funds to achieve their ambitions.
Frictional would only lose by making a PS4 exclusive, they were doing fine all by themselves all this time, why should they endanger that?

While their situation is different from the Chinese Room, the differences actually make it more likely they would be in a similar situation with money.

The Chinese Room made 2 games, both using existing engines, both very short and with relatively short development times. For their second game they had the support of Frictional for both publishing it, and providing help with development.

Frictional has been developing a new engine for their new project, has been working on this project since Amnesia was released so it's likely to be fairly substantial, have spent time and money publishing and aiding development of AAMFP, and have put together numerous high quality teasers using actors, which I'd imagine is much more costly than some game clips that normally get used in teasers. That's all going to add up, and while Amnesia was a big success for them, the money they made from it would only last so long.

Also, how exactly would Frictional lose out by being a PS4 exclusive. The console market is much larger than the PC gaming market, plus they would have been given monetary incentive by Sony. If it's a timed exclusive, they still eventually get a lot of PC sales as well, as I doubt there will be many people so outraged that they boycott it entirely.