To ensure “a better experience for PS5 and PC gamers,” this video game studio is suspending the Xbox version despite the announcement

Gaming News To ensure “a better experience for PS5 and PC gamers,” this video game studio is suspending the Xbox version despite the announcement

Jyamma Games was faced with a choice

For several months we have been talking about declining sales of the Xbox Series X/S consoles. Instead of finding solutions to make consoles more competitive than ever, Phil Spencer and his teams recently approved the launch of first-party titles on rival consoles. We’ll see if this decision, unpopular with some fans, doesn’t accelerate the decline in Xbox sales. What is certain is that the lack of consoles sold in Asia is forcing some developers to make complicated decisions

. This is the case of Jyamma Games, which has just decided to pause the development of its game on Xbox, despite being promoted by ID@Xbox, to ensure a better experience for PS5 and PC gamers.

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“The Asian market is largely dominated by PlayStation”

The news caused a stir on the Internet. The Italian action role-playing game Enotria: The Last Song, which will be released on August 21, 2024 for PlayStation 5 and PC, will not be released for the Xbox Series. At least not yet. The development studio has actually confirmed that the Xbox Series version previously announced by ID@Xbox has been suspended and “will be reassessed after launch”. “With the Xbox release in mind, we have decided to re-evaluate the possibility of an Xbox release post-launch to provide a premium experience for PC and PlayStation 5 players“We can read.

On social networks, some players expressed their dissatisfaction, prompting Jyamma Games boss Giacomo Greco to take his keyboard to try to put out the fire

. He initially apologized to the Xbox community, assuring that “a decision had to be made” and that the title’s release on all platforms “would lead to a deterioration in overall product quality and further delays“.

“The choice was simply the PS5 and not the Xbox because of our relationship with our partners in Asia (SEGA), with whom we have agreements that we want to respect out of respect for them.“said the CEO. “As you all know, the Asian market is largely dominated by the PlayStation and therefore the PS5 was a logical choice. Jyamma Games is an independent software company that has never been funded by anyone, including Microsoft

” he adds. Despite everything, the studio promises that it “will also work on the Xbox version as well as the DLC“, in order to “Offer the game to Microsoft console users“. After the title is released on PS5 and PC.