lol Have you seen the state of multiplatform development in the last 5-10 years? The quality has taken a nose dive. Everyone chases the same fucking GaaS trends. EA, Activision, Ubisoft make better games than Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft? In what reality lol? Sony and Nintendo have dominated the GOTY awards. Third parties dont even try. When was the last time EA even released a single player game? 2019 Star Wars Fallen order? Activision just puts out mediocre CoD every year and they literally make $5 billion from COD and it hasnt improved COD. It's the same shit every year. Ubisoft is just straight up making trash after trash every year. They havent won a GOTY in over a decade. They dont even come close.
We have even seen first party quality take a hit ever since Sony and MS started shipping games on PC. GG last year spent 8 months fixing the mess that was the Horizon PC Port. That affected the quality of HFW which shipped with so many bugs, it took them 8 weeks and 9 patches to fix literally 50-100 bugs a week. Who is to say that the months fixing the PC port didnt take away resources from the PS5 version? I dont even know what happened with the PC version of Halo. It performs so poorly, I am convinced they didnt bother optimizing it on PC at all. Like WTF is the point of making games for PC if you wont even support PC features 3-4 years old.
These studios are not built to handle multiplatform dev. Even studios that continuously struggle to put games out on time in a polished state. They are far less ambitious than exclusives. Fornite, CoD, AC Creed, Fifa, GTA Online, PubG and whatever third party fad of the moment dont even get threads here because no one here wants to play those generic games. People want quality and there are literally 2-3 multiplat studios that are making those games. Rockstar, FromSoft and CD Project. Rockstar cant make more than 2 games a decade despite selling 150 million copies of GTA and making billions from GTA Online. CD Project made hundreds of millions from Witcher 3. It didnt help with Cyberpunk, did it? They were clearly overwhelmed by having to support the last gen consoles. The game runs more or less fine on PC. Wouldve been a great PC exclusive. Everyone's favorite Elden Rings shipped in a woeful state and is not fixed. How much money did they make? Why cant they fix the framerate? And these 3 studios are actually the good ones who make ambitious and goty caliber genre defining games.
There are many downsides.