DID MS get to excited at the wrong time with PUBG?

I'm not sure what they invested in it besides some development help to get it to run on an Xbox. It's probably not the game they wished it could have been... Just like most of the exclusives released recently.

It seems like a smart investment even though it got overshadowed by Fortnite. I’m sure that it has done and continues to do relatively well still.

I wish I had a game that had 50+ million in sales on PC and Xbox. Man what a total damn failure this game is. Already had over 3 million sales on Xbox in January. Would not be surprised if it is around 5 million now on Xbox.

No not as big as Fornite, but Fornite is F2P also. I am not sure I would ever allow you to run a business since you don't know what a success even is.

Yeah, but to be fair, Fortnite was already on everything so they couldn't buy a deal with them.

Hmm, not sure how smart it was.

Battlegrounds have lost over half their players on steam, meaning fortnite is not just smashing PUBG , they are wiping the floor with it and if you look at the demographic, over 60% who plays it is from Asia, not a market that is strong for the Xbox.

I haven’t played PUBG yet. Is it still shit on the Xbox platform?

Yep. better off playing the mobile version, since it is up to date with the PC version.

It still sold 4-5m on Xbox. It may not have been the best investment but it certainly wasn’t the worst.

@Jacanuk: It’s done pretty well on the Xbox platform and that’s why they invested in it was for the console exclusivity. Fortnite wasn’t really much of a thing until they copied the Battle Royale formula from PUBG so I don’t think anyone really expected it to explode like it did. I still think that Microsoft investing in making PUBG a console exclusive to Xbox if even for a limited time was still a smart thing to do as it still captured some of the hotness that it had going for it at the time plus it still seems to be doing ok for the time being.

The only reason Fortnite is doing so well is because its free.

The stupid decision involving PUBG is playing it on console. The smart decision would be to invest in a gaming PC to play it properly. :)

Or the fact that you can build spam your way out of a shit situation you put yourself in.

You have bad positioning in pubg, you die with no way out.

oh yea and the whole 10-20 fps thing........lol.

The smart decision is to not play it all.

That building crap is the reason I have no interest in Fortnite and prefer a game like PUBG. They have similarities, but cater to different audiences. Obviously Fortnite has more mass appeal and is free, but I doubt a large portion of people who left PUBG did so because they wanted to switch to Fortnite.

Perhaps, but It still a smart decision to invest in a gaming PC. hehe :)

I am not sure where you are getting this info but today PUBG clocked in 1.5 million peak players and Fortnite is not in the top 10 most played on Steam. Am I missing something?

Fortnite is not available on steam. You have to play it through the Epic Games Launcher. But yeah... PUBG is still doing very well when you look at the overall picture.

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Having 2 extremely high played BattleRoyal shooters > only having 1.

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Didn't it sell over 5 million on Xbox? I would hardly call that a bad investment.

And PUBG is better than Fortnite. Fortnite just has a bigger audience because it is Free to Play, but PUBG is more fun.

There was nothing they could have done about Fortnite. PUBG was not only a good move for xbox it was the only move for that year. I think everyone was screaming for MS to lock the game down. Sometimes you gotta feed your fanboys popular shit no matter what state there in.

PUBG is much better than Fortnite in my book

Not hating on Fornite, just don't care about it at all. Realm Royale is also not as good as PUBG

When I play PUBG (PC) my hands sweat, my heart races, and I actually have to stop after a couple of rounds due to anxiety it causes me. To me, the game is so good at building tension that it affects me physically and mentally.

I just don't see Fortnite giving me the same reaction. I don't know if its the cartoony look or just the overall lack of realism, but I think PUBG has that part locked down.

PUBG has been a great game on PC for a while. It is far from perfect, but it has made some great strides from the early game.

The PUBG and Fortnite comparisons are misguided. PUBG is premium, whereas Fortnite is F2P. Recent history has shown F2P almost always beats premium in revenue and player numbers. It's not a fair comparison.

As for PUBG, it's sold 50 million and grossed $1.5 billion, more than almost every AAA game on the market. Fortnite is currently at $1.2 billion.

this whole 'PUBG is dying/failing' narrative is nonsense.

it appeals to a different audience than Fortnite. it makes sense that when Fortnite first came out, it took a chunk of the PUBG audience who were only playing that game because of its novel premise, and Fortnite's more casual style probably appealed to them more.

the rest are people like me who prefer a more 'realistic,' tactical game. I know loads of people who never stopped playing PUBG and aren't going to switch to Fortnite. Its still the most played game on steam, and the top selling game on steam. its doing fine.

the only thing that might cause pubg to actually die is if another, more realistic BR game came out that does it better than PUBG (which is entirely possible but hasn't happened yet).

In the end, I wonder which game will have made more money. Two very different models.

To answer the question- I think it was the wrong move. The dev's clearly don't want to put the time and effort into optimizing the game to run well on Xbox. Or to add more content to the game. Just come across as really lazy people- I wouldn't want to invest in a company like that.

Besides the fact that Fortnite is not on steam, And also it´s 1.2, not 1.5 peak.

Well, I did not say no one played Pubg anymore, I said they have lost half of their original player base, Right now there is around 600k playing before Fortnite it was around 1.5-2.5 million

For now, PUBG has made $1.5 billion, and Fortnite has made $1.2 billion, though it's likely that Fortnite will surpass PUBG within the next few months.

No, the game for at least a short while garnered a good deal of positive attention, and surely some people still care about it. I'd consider playing it, once performance improves, and/or it's free on Game Pass.

There was talk of MS buying Bluehole the Dev of PUBG. Glad they didn't. Battle royal will be everywhere soon.

I hate the building crap in Fortnite personally.(Also in Fallout to be honest) PUBG, bugs and all is just more fun and sometimes hilarious.

MS made more than they invested and would be happy to have that result with any of my own investments.

Clearly the devs don't care or are too lazy to optimize the game to run at 30fps on Xbox One. Not the kind of devs I would want to be praising if I were Microsoft.