Warner Bros. reportedly knew for months that Batman: Arkham Knight was broken

I know that as soon as a game comes out every benchmarking team has every hardware set-up imaginable to run any game, so wouldn't it be easier to give a beta release to a benchmarking team so they can test the games and send back bug reports and other feedback?

I can only speculate that large-scale beta testing presents the risk of hype deflation killing sales. There aren't many other plausible explanations that explain AAA game dev's reluctance to do what is common in other areas of software and the indie market.
 
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This. If WB et. al. wanted to be "greedy" and sell people a bill of goods, they would. Plenty of companies do it in the mobile market (and increasingly in non-mobile) and a lot of indie devs do it, too.

This Arkham Knight blunder is a direct result of poor management decisions. Consoles are the biggest money maker for devs and publishers, as they can sell more units there than they can on PC. So, the fine managers at WB decided to put all their eggs in that basket, for whatever reason. They ignored the PC problems because, in all likelihood, they did not understand their significance (severity, how strongly customers would react, etc.) and became fixated on the more important market.

As a result, they've damaged the reputation of their brand, something that will impact sales across platforms moving forward. It isn't greedy to make foolish mistakes that hurt your bottom line. It's demonstrably stupid.

For 2014 and current 2015 PC games out sold all 3 consoles. It used to take all 3 to beat PC (2 of 3 couldn't) now they cannot. This should be a wake up call for devs. PC gaming is rising, consoles are dwindling and this half assing of PC ports won't do much longer.
 
For 2014 and current 2015 PC games out sold all 3 consoles. It used to take all 3 to beat PC (2 of 3 couldn't) now they cannot. This should be a wake up call for devs. PC gaming is rising, consoles are dwindling and this half assing of PC ports won't do much longer.

Ironic you'd post this under the handle "Geralt of Rivia", considering CDPR's statements about the Witcher 3 and how it wouldn't have happened without consoles.
 
Ironic you'd post this under the handle "Geralt of Rivia", considering CDPR's statements about the Witcher 3 and how it wouldn't have happened without consoles.

Not really. The scales are tipping the other direction and that takes time. Consoles are becoming more irrelevant as they become more like a computer. They even share the same architecture now.
 
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