Nioh is about to get a sequel, as announced back at E3 2018 in June, but there’s still one question about the series that hasn’t found an answer yet: is the game ever getting an Xbox One version?
not a question of power. i dont game on PC either. it is a matter of hardware. The game was initially released on PS4 and landed on PC later on. it is not a PS4 exclusive anymore.
Seriously - why does everyone think that a game which doesn’t launch the same day on two platforms is instantly a ‘timed exclusive’? It wasn’t a Fimed Exclusive. It was put on PS4 first because the devs are more adapted to console development, and the they continued work on the PC version until it was announced.
Was monster hunter world a ‘timed exclusive’ on consoles just because the PC version didn’t launch the same day? No. They worked on it to continue optimising it because the devs are that confident at PC development.
To answer the OP though - the game isn’t timed and there isn’t a shady deal which says it can’t go on Xbox for X amount of months etc... there will be some form of both marketing and distribution deal with Sony. For example, KT don’t even handle the pr or support for the same outside of japan, it’s Sony who deals with all of that.
Just like how you won’t see The existing Alan Wake or Sunset overdrive games on the PS4 due to the arrangement with MS.
Just because I said I would pick nioh up on my xbox doesn't mean I want every Japanese game that comes out lol. nioh and bloodborne are probably the only two Japanese games that interest me that aren't available on xbox
I don't know why people thought it was coming to Xbox, Nioh 2 has been announced and it's still exclusive to PlayStation. Obviously Nioh isn't going to come if they aren't planning multiplatform for the series.
Except all the examples you just gave weren’t paid by Sony to keep them from other platforms. Nier was always going to be PC and PS4 first then Xbox as they wanted To get the game out then concentrate on porting it. Same with HellBlade - that dev is small and couldn’t do both consoles at once.
NMS basically went to Xbox because their 2 years agreement due to Sony funding the game ended and they wanted more players due to the playerbase on PS4 being pretty much non existent anymore.
NINJA Theory paid for every bit of development, marketing and publishing of hellblade, sony had absoleulty nothing to do with any decision that team had. It was 100% indie game.
None of those games were published by Sony. Nier was published by SquareEnix NMS was published by Hello Games and Hellblade was published by Ninja Theory
@ Srhalo Hello Games is the creator and developer of No Man's Sky and the publisher of the PlayStation 4 digital and PC version of the game. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the publisher and distributor of the Blu-ray Disc version of the game.
That was the inital deal they made before the game released.
I said this yesterday yet I was bombarded with comments of people thinking it would actually happen. We’ll get sunset overdrive and Alan wake on PS4 before Nioh appears on Xbox
You guys are aware that it is still console exclusive even when released on PC. The levels of goofiness online never ceases to amaze. Exclusive means that the other "CONSOLES" do not have access.
This is the same answer Shaun Murray gave about NMS and is basically the same answer as was given a couple of days ago - no current plans to put out an Xbox version but not impossible in the future. If it was truly not ever coming out on Xbox they would just say so, these execs pick their words very carefully.
Nier Automata was a great game, glad it was ported to the Xbox, this game on the other hand.. Koei Tecmo can keep it, seen plenty of video and not impressed nor interested, specially with Sekiro shadows die twice on the way..
"Sorry, this guy is stretching. It's the same answer I give everyone who asks. There are NO current plans to bring Nioh to Xbox"
So it's currently confirmed that it isn't a timed exclusive.
I don't know why people thought it was coming to Xbox, Nioh 2 has been announced and it's still exclusive to PlayStation. Obviously Nioh isn't going to come if they aren't planning multiplatform for the series.
Sony is publishing these games.