shikamaru317 on 09 February 2024
| Ryuu96 said: |
That one never made sense to me. Xbox made such a big deal about it's exclusivity, and it's not like it was a flop or something, it has sold probably 4m+ copies so far in almost 6 months (SteamSpy estimates 5m+ on Steam alone), and had reached 13m players by December. Sure it didn't move much hardware like Xbox hoped it would, but it's likely already profitable from first sales alone and likely drove some new Gamepass subs too, and still has DLC and big Steam/Xbox sale discounts and official mod support coming, all of which will drive decent to good legs.
If Xbox is going to do multiplat releases on some games moving forward, I think they will mainly fall into one of these categories:
- Games where the developer wants to open up the game to more players (such as Pentiment)
- Games which weren't as profitable as Xbox hoped, which Xbox hopes to make profitable
- Games that Xbox wants to make a sequel to, but wants to open them up to new players on other platforms first, so that fans of that port to other platforms might be more inclined to buy Xbox hardware or a PC next gen in order to play an Xbox ecosystem exclusive sequel
- GaaS games
- Games which are so old they aren't really moving copies or hardware any longer
