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Originally Posted by chemgear

Whelp, need more competition.

https://kotaku.com/publishers-not-su...gdc-1851367132

Some Publishers Reportedly Not Sure Why They Should Keep Supporting Xbox

It seems some big and small publishers aren’t sure if they should keep porting games to Xbox consoles

Reportedly, some third-party video game publishers aren’t sure why they should keep making and supporting games for Xbox consoles due to poor sales in Europe.

“You can follow our monthly coverage in the games market and you can see that Xbox sales are falling, and it’s been falling throughout last year and it’s falling even harder this year.”

Dring further said that one major company—who reportedly released a “big game” last year—said: “I don’t know why we bothered supporting it.”

“We mentioned on the previous podcast that we’d heard retailers in Europe are considering or had already been cutting back their Xbox stock on their shelves—hardware, games, that kind of thing—and now you’ve got publishers, third-party publishers going, ‘we’re putting in a lot of effort trying to create a Series S version and an X version of a game when, to be honest with you, for us the market is PC and PS5’,” said Dring.

According to Dring, from what he heard at GDC 2024, Xbox is “in real trouble as a hardware manufacturer.”

Yeah, I can't imagine it's been enjoyable for developers to scale back next-gen titles just so they can work on both Xbox versions.