Imagine you started your games development 5 years ago thinking xbox was going to be relevant only to then release a game on a console that doesn’t sell (esp. in Asia) where 75% of the users are S owners who only bought the thing for game pass. S owners have categorically got to be the lowest average spenders.
It’s no wonder things keep getting delayed for xbox, why put any effort into a platform that’s never going to return it’s investment. We saw the sales chart with breakdowns today with xbox selling only accounting for 5% of the the number one selling game Hogwarts Legacy and sales with other games having similarly disastrous numbers.
I mean, xbox has games now because games take so long to develop that games today were started before people realized what a disaster xbox was going to be this gen. I think going forward with games started today you’ll see a lot less games on xbox, especially now that they have positioned themselves as a rival to the other developers and publishers. It’s not surprising we keep hearing that developers are skipping xbox even major publishers.
It’s just a waste of resources to build for xbox especially when you have to have two separate builds with one console that is basically a last gen console with an SSD.
