Indie Developer Snubs Xbox As Furi DLC Skips Xbox One Release

TBH they see the financials and need to make decisions best for their survival. Shame for people that only have Xbox and loved the game but it sounds like their core player base was elsewhere

Then don't port the game for Xbox in the first place.

On 04th, Sep. 2017

Studio founder and creative director Emeric Thoa noted that Furi has sold more than 3 million copies till now. Since it released in July 2016 for PS4 and PC before coming to Xbox One in December 2016 and considering how niche the game was, that’s pretty good.

Interestingly, Thoa said that sales are “a bit lower than we would have liked” but later said that the studio is “pretty happy” with sales thus far. Furi can be purchased for $20 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. It’s also received some DLC with One More Fight which added a brand new boss fight to the mix."

Well for a niche game 3 million is pretty good imho, and taking into account that it launched at PS plus for free day and date,

I wonder how bad the sales were for Xbox.

@suikoden What’s this have to do with GamePass?

And, yeah, this was a PS+ game so that obviously is a reason this got more players on PS4.

@awp69

Nothing I need to wake up or goto Specsavers

This is the problem with more or less all multiplatform games on Xbox in general, they don't sell as well as everywhere else.

never heard of it

@Snake_V5 Are you sure? I’ve always been under the impression that Xbox players generally have higher attach rates for multiplat titles than Sony and (especially) Nintendo.

@JoakimZ Well PlayStation has the biggest install base so that helps.

Furi sounds like a game all gamers would love.

But it was disappointing. A couple of the tunes are decent and er that's it.

I think hellblade senua's sacrifice got an update for Xbox & pc but not the playstation version because Microsoft bought the publisher

@JoakimZ it depends on the game, around 70% of games sell way better on playstation in terms of physical sales and some sell better on xbox in digital sales, but overall there's more sales for sonys consoles, especially last gen we're there was twice as many playstation consoles than xbox. It's closer this gen though.

Also some titles sell best on nintendo especially indie titles, even the new lego star wars game has sold more on the Nintendo switch than xbox and playstation

They would have been better off dealing with XGP, like most indie devs do. A higher payout unless you KNOW for a fact you can make a ton of sales. And let's be real, how many of us have XGP? Do we really need to add to our backlog? Unless you're AAA, and even then it has to be a good franchise, you're better off on the Pass.

Xbox has the install based to make porting games like this in theory worthit, but the actual player based simply just don't play games like this. So long term support comes into question. Basically if you ain't COD, FIFA... or any big budget game. Just don't launch on Xbox.