Wanna hear something crazy? Bought it first day it came out this past September, for full price too I might add. Haven't played it yet! I love horror games but I need a cool-off period in between them. I finished outlast (finally) and whistleblower after buying it and was then totally drained. I'm thinking of diving into it this weekend. I also still have rapture to start / finish, ether one and this war of mine, walking dead season 2 and among the sleep to get through. Just comes down to time.... And it's far too finite for me now that I have a career, wife and child. Funny thing is, I'm doing fantastically well financially speaking, I can buy any game I want at any time. Yet the cost of that is my time spent working. As a manager 60+ is the norm. Which KILLS my gaming time management. Ugh

Yeah, totally agree, hope they recoup costs and make a profit, this title will sell for years when they start putting it in sales and bundles.

And after that they can always release it as a PS+ title for those that still don't have it (don't know what kind of financial incentive companies get for releasing their titles on Plus, but i'm sure it will only add to their earnings), and more people know about this wonderful developer and hopefully buy their next title Day One.

Easy to speculate as to the ease of porting, but if you're just an outside observer you're not giving them credit for the hard work in making the game to begin with. I'd imagine a cross console port is much harder than a simple copy / paste, despite the technical similarities. Not defending them, just food for thought from the other side of a coin

I'd say it comes down to cost / benefit and limited cash flow in relation to port spend vs marketing spend. Maybe they could have made more by reallocating their resources to a port, but that would limit marketing exposure, of which was already minimal. Again, straight devils advocate here. But as a manager myself, people are by far the most valuable and expensive pieces of a business. And marketing is astronomical. And because their product is one of digital retail, their controllables are limited vs a standard good or service where salespeople could be hired to market it directly. Their marketing will mostly be passive in the form of advertisements.

@lipton101 - I am not discounting financial constraints here.. but it is only natural that when you limit your audience, you also limit your sales. Who knows, they could have made back the cost of the port in Xbox One sales. I don't pretend to know how much it costs to port over, but the architecture between the XB1 and PS4 are so similar now it's ridiculous.

I picked up this game day one, love Frictional as developers. It is a shame that they haven't seemed to make back their money as this limits their potential for future games unless they secure a publisher.

yeah, loved the Canadian setting to start the game.. ;)

Wowser, that's freaky!

Wait, it starts off in Toronto? WHAT SUBWAY STOP IS IT!? I might have to find out when I buy it because I have always wanted to play it.

Amnesia, Frictional Games masterpiece.

An easier sell isn't the same as people liking something more.. I can't imagine Alien Isolation getting more sales had it been 3rd person.

And System Shock/bioshock series has as much of a horror slant as much of the successful 3rd person "horror" games.

I love games that have a story stick with me.

Me too, great story, but I did not enjoy that gameplay, really wish the gameplay had been better.