Microsoft will be publisher for PUBG on Xbox One

The announcement has caused a bit of confusion though.
Text: Sam Bishop
Published 2017-08-21

PlayerUnknown' Battlegrounds has just surpassed 8 million copies sold, and now the game's executive producer and Bluehole VP Chang Han Kim has announced that Microsoft will be the publisher for the game on Xbox One.

"Back in June at E3, we announced that PUBG will be launching exclusively on Xbox One in the Xbox Game Preview program in late 2017," the post explains. "Ever since then we have come to realise that we have a shared vision for the direction of the game with the Xbox team. This led to our decision on extending our partnership with Microsoft and I'm happy to announce it now includes Microsoft as the publisher for our PUBG on Xbox One."

"By partnering with Microsoft, 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."

As pointed out by Twitter user Alex Donaldson though, there was some confusion about what this actually meant, and members of the team are dodging questions when it comes to exclusivity, just saying that the team are working hard to bring it to Xbox "sooner". Either way, this is good news for Xbox fans, but would you like to see the game come to PS4?

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