PUBG Corp, the developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, is taking things slow when it comes to ports on platforms other than PC.
That said, PUBG Corp aims to have PUBG available on as many platforms as possible. The Xbox One version, which released a couple of weeks ago on Game Preview, is only the start of that.
Chang Han Kim, CEO of PUBG Corp, reiterated that the game will be exclusively available on Xbox One “for some time”, but revealed that part of the reason why it hit Xbox One first is because of Game Preview. Unlike Sony, Microsoft will happily offer in-development games on the store, the same way 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 told 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 game Han Kim is referring to in this instance, but the CEO added that the studio is still learning how to develop for consoles, and beginning to understand console gamers’ tastes. Whatever platform comes next, it won’t happen before the Xbox One version is finished.
The Xbox One version, despite it being a terrible way to play PUBG thanks to control and performance problems, has nonetheless been an instant success. According to Han Kim, the game sold 1 million copies in two days, and has continued to sell “considerably” since then.
Crazy_Wulf on January 2nd, 2018 at 15:04 UTC »
There has never been any doubt PUBG would be coming to PS4..... Its probably about a year away though. The issue is there are going to be other devs rushing to get their versions of PUBG out, by the time PUBG comes out on PS4 there will be a few other "clones" that will probably do things better.
WeAreNephilim on January 2nd, 2018 at 14:59 UTC »
That's a good thing
Dante_Jazzman on January 2nd, 2018 at 14:49 UTC »
So, it's not going to be on Playstation for a while because Sony wants the game in a completed state before selling it to their customers. (Completed here meaning done with development, not necessarily perfect.) I don't see why that's a bad thing. Sony's trying to improve the quality of what they offer their customers. I know a lot of people rip on Sony for being inconsiderate of customers, but they are a business. And as a business, they need to make money. They make money by selling to customers. No customers, no money. No money, no business.
Now, could they sell PUBG in an incomplete state as early release? Yes. The PC and Xbox platform sales prove they can. However, if Sony says it's okay for this one, what do they do when the next one comes around and wants the same thing? Where do you draw the line? It's better to just say no across the board than try to create some sort of vetting process that involves a ton of cost and time.