Not Sure What To Make Of This.......  http://otherside-e.com/wp/starbreeze-publishing-signs-otherside-entertainments-system-shock-3/

Based on Starbreeze's other works, it sounds like they'll be pushing real hard for the VR in SS3.  But hey, at least there's no cancerous, pandering Kickstarter for this one.

Based on Starbreeze's other works, it sounds like they'll be pushing real hard for the VR in SS3.  But hey, at least there's no cancerous, pandering Kickstarter for this one.

Consoles are guaranteed now but I didn't really expect them to stay PC-exclusive in the first place.

Well, Spector is also somewhat stubborn, at least it seems, so hopefully that will counter any ironfisted-ness.

Expect the worst, hope for the best.

They'll invest 12M... doesn't sound like much for a current-gen multi-platform game at all.

From what Spector said during his DeusEx postmortem at GDC, VR for SS3 doesn't seem to be planned right now, btw.50:50 split after break-even plus ownership of all intellectual rights in a world where developers are payed on a per-project basis and aren't even allowed to own their own source code and you call that iron-fisted? Why?

I wasn't thinking of the economics, just the comments about "definitely going to have console support" and "definitely going to have VR".  I don't care about either of those things in and of themselves, being included but it sounds like they have a pretty strong authority when they want something.  For a publisher, that concerns me because they aren't the ones who should be driving the bus on development of the game.  Anyway it was just a feeling based on 2 posts worth of info.  I really know nothing about them.  I just hope the core development team remains in control of the plot and game mechanics.

Then again, demanding console support and VR is the type of stuff that has nothing to do with the game's contents so I suppose I can't read into it.