Try again son. Ark just finally came out of early access a day or 2 ago. It didn’t need a preview program to come out on the PS4. A preview program ain’t got damn thing to do with it. MS starving for new exclusive content and is ready to pay generously for it.

Or maybe its because Sony doesn’t have a game preview programme.

Evidence says otherwise. Ubisoft and EA both say Xbox players buy more.

This “Xgimp” bought over 300 Xbox One games.

Translation: We were desperate, so we offered to buy the IP, and then we threw money at them for exclusivity of the IP, but they saw what partnering with us did to Crystal Dynamics with the Tomb Raider franchise, and they wouldn’t budge.

“There is no amount of money that Microsoft can provide to entice them away”

Of course there is. Look at their acquisition of Mojang for $2.5 billion. They have $100 billion in liquid cash sitting around. If the wanted to, they could buy the IP. Just like Notch, PlayerUnknown has a sell point too, and it would be way less than what they paid for Mojang, that’s for sure.

What Microsoft CAN DO, though, is leverage their experience with servers, distribution, marketing, console design, etc. that Korean developers don’t always have experience with. (Servers and distribution maybe less so, in the land of the MMO). This gives MS a “console launch” exclusive – a game that will come out first on Xbox before any other console – by virtue of speeding up development itself. They also reap benefits of publishing it on their platform. Once those console design issues have been solved (at game release), I’m sure Bluehole will then port it over to the PS4 in short time. If MS is lucky, maybe Bluehole uses Azure as a server backend as well.

Eh, from what I see, this is a win-win-win-win for everyone involved. PUBG gets on consoles/more platforms. MS gets the game first and some profits from publishing. Sony gets the game after the development is all done. And gamers everywhere get to play the game. Sounds good to me.