In an interview that remains to be verified but is already spreading across social media and video game sites, it seems that an anonymous developer from the S-GAME team, authors of Phantom Blade Zero, made it clear that he has no interest in bringing the game to Xbox, and in fact substantially denigrated Xbox in a heavy manner.
The interview took place during the recent ChinaJoy 2024, an event dedicated to development in China and heavily promoted by Sony PlayStation, during which highly anticipated titles such as Black Myth: Wukong and Phantom Blade Zero were also shown.
The information comes from the Brazilian magazine GameplaysCassi and is difficult to verify, considering that the developer in question remained anonymous and it is not clear how the interview took place.
Absolutely no one wants an Xbox?
Since it is originally Chinese, then translated into Portuguese, it is possible that the words have been distorted, also because part of the speech is a bit confusing.
In any case, both S-GAME and Game Science (authors of Black Myth: Wukong) agree that Sony has been very active in supporting the development of their games.
The anonymous person at S-GAME apparently went further, reporting that Xbox is not a very popular platform in Asia and that Microsoft would have “a very overloaded ecosystem that is difficult to develop for”, which is not very clear but could refer to the different standards imposed by the Xbox Series X and Series S.
In particular, the translation sounds like he said “nobody needs this platform,” or essentially “nobody wants this console at all,” which comes off as a pretty harsh statement on Microsoft’s consoles.
