PlayStation 4 (PS4) owners will be disappointed to hear that the popular survival shooter "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" (PUBG) will stick with Xbox and Windows for a bit longer.
This was made clear when PUBG Corp. CEO Chang Han Kim said that the battle royal style game will not be making its way to PS4 due to Sony's strict policies regarding a certain video game's quality.
Kim told technology website Inven Global that Sony PlayStation's lack of an early access feature is something that prevented them from doing a port on the console.
"Early Access on Steam and Game Preview on Xbox One are like pre-release, so they don't have a restriction on quality. However, PS is very strict about this. There were cases where a game took 6 months more to launch even when it was already completed," Kim stated.
He also said that even though their game has reached great success, they are still in the learning curve when it comes to developing games for consoles.
"We are still in the stage of learning the console development environment and console gamers' taste. We need to think about other platforms after evaluating and completing the Xbox One version first," he added.
This is not actually a bad thing. In spite of its achievements, "PUBG" is a relative newcomer to the gaming scene and can still be considered as an incomplete game. Several reports regarding technical issues have been made since the game was released last year.
If the developers decide to port the game to other platforms, it would be better if they do it when the majority of bugs and other errors would already be resolved. Since the game will not be leaving the Xbox any time soon, PUBG Corp. has a lot of time to sort things out.
And that is exactly what Kim plans to do for the time being.
"As it's going to be an exclusive title on Xbox One for some time, we'd like to focus on completing the Xbox One PUBG for now," Kim revealed.
