PUBG Corp, the developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, is taking issues gradual on the subject of ports on platforms apart from PC.
That stated, PUBG Corp goals to have PUBG obtainable on as many platforms as potential. The Xbox One model, which launched a few weeks in the past on Game Preview, is simply the beginning of that.
Chang Han Kim, CEO of PUBG Corp, reiterated that the sport can be solely obtainable on Xbox One “for some time”, however revealed that a part of the rationale why it hit Xbox One first is due to Game Preview. Unlike Sony, Microsoft will fortunately provide in-development video games on the shop, the identical approach Steam has been doing with Early Access.
“[…] we’d like to focus on completing the Xbox One PUBG for now. If we have the opportunity, the final goal would be to launch the title on every platform,” Chang Han Kim informed Inven Global in an interview.
“Early Access on Steam and Game Preview on Xbox One are like pre-release, so they don’t have a restriction on quality. However, [PlayStation] is very strict about this. There were cases where a game took six months more to launch even when it was already completed.”
It’s not clear what sport Han Kim is referring to on this occasion, however the CEO added that the studio continues to be studying easy methods to develop for consoles, and starting to grasp console players’ tastes. Whatever platform comes subsequent, it received’t occur earlier than the Xbox One model is completed.
The Xbox One model, regardless of it being a terrible way to play PUBG thanks to regulate and efficiency issues, has nonetheless been an prompt success. According to Han Kim, the sport offered 1 million copies in two days, and has continued to promote “considerably” since then.
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