It has been shown many times that Xbox GamePass It’s great value for virtually all types of gamers, but it’s not universally applicable to indie game developers. The Game Bakers, the developer of Hack and Slash Furi in 2016started a minor controversy when he announced that he would not be releasing new content updates on Xbox as it achieved relatively poor performance.
The Game Bakers recently announced that the next-gen update for Furi will not be available on Xbox. The studio explained in an interview why it made this decision in a recent interview with Waypoint. The company’s president, Audrey Leprince, explained that not only did Furi perform poorly on Xbox in general, but the performance of The Game Bakers’ new title, Haven, didn’t seem to have a better situation..
This is the reason why Furi will not receive updates on Xbox
When Haven launched on February 4, more than 70% of its player base was playing through Xbox Game Pass. At the same time, according to Leprince’s data, few people bought the games on Xbox. This, coupled with the high cost of updating Furi’s codebase and porting it to all the different platforms, combined with the possibility of the game not being announced on Xbox, The Game Bakers decided to skip a release on Microsoft platforms.
However, Leprince admitted that the studio’s decision to remove the Xbox from the DLC of Onnamusha Furi it was not unbreakable. ‘We sincerely hope that the DLC will be a great success and that we can bring it to Xbox in the near future.‘, he claimed. The Game Bakers’ revenue may be low given that most gamers already use Xbox Game Pass to play games, but Leprince has found that the service can also be extremely useful in increasing visibility in independent titles.