PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – 2017
The hottest game on Steam will make its way exclusively to the Xbox One some time before the end of the year via the Xbox Game Preview program. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a battle royale style shooter that has sold over seven million copies in early access on Steam. PUBG developer Bluehole hopes to capture the same magic on consoles.
At Gamescom 2017, Microsoft announced that they would publish the Xbox One version of PUBG, as opposed to the Steam version which Bluehole self-publishes. “By partnering with Microsoft,” Bluehole, Inc. VP and Executive Producer of PUBG Chang Han Kim wrote in an Xbox Wire post, “our team believes that we will be able to accelerate console development, while maintaining quality across all platforms, as well as giving us access to vast sales, marketing and publishing resources that will help us reach new fans to welcome to the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds universe.”
