505 Games admits Control’s next-gen upgrade could have been handled better
0505 Games, publisher of ‘Control’, has admitted it could have handled the next-gen upgrade process for the game in a better way.
Players were only entitled to a free next-gen upgrade of the game – which is developed by Remedy Entertainment – if they purchased ‘Control Ultimate Edition’.
Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, 505 Games president Neil Ralley gave more insight on why that situation occurred and says 505 Games “learnt a lot from that” and aims to handle it in a better way in future.
He said: “Every transition from one generation to another creates challenges for both development and publishing. The Smart Delivery option, if I can use that term to generalise, was something we hadn't faced before as an industry.
“For Control, we made certain decisions that restricted how we could perform Smart Delivery for the next-gen version of Control. They were the correct decisions at the time, but they created those blockers. We were unable to backtrack and reorganise how we were developing the Ultimate Edition for there to be a sensible and fair way to do Smart Delivery.”
Ralley continued to say that as a publisher they didn’t “handle it in the best way” and in future, they “will be able to do this in a much better way”.
He added: “We learnt a lot from that. Did we as a publisher handle it in the best way and communicate it in the best way to the audience? Maybe not. But we did our best to satisfy consumers...
“Moving forwards, we will be able to do this in a much better way and you'll see that in the next examples that we've got with Ghostrunner at the end of September and Assetto Corsa in early 2022. I'm very confident that we'll handle that in a much better way.”