Talk:Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation/@comment-25264971-20170813080348/@comment-1824272-20170813091020

DoubleDelta One, if they said that, it wouldn't be a lie. AC6 ran on an in-house engine, and was created solely for the Xbox 360. In addition, all the game's DLC is now gone. And only an important reason could have caused that - the most likely possibility would probably be licensing.

So to release the game on Steam, they would have to:
 * Port the game. With the death of Games for Windows - LIVE, this becomes a huge challenge as they'll have to make a lot of compatibility fixes for PCs. Not to mention they also have to work on so many types of PCs. This does, in fact, have a lot of effort and a lot of cost attached to it.
 * Re-license everything. This is costly.
 * Spend time and human resources on all of this when it could be used on something else, like AC7.

If Bandai Namco sees the opportunity to do it, and their cost-benefit analysis determines that it would be worth it, they certainly would.