Microsoft Not Looking to Develop Battle Royale Title – Phil Spencer

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Battle Royale games have exploded in popularity since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds released on PC and the success of Fortnite: Battle Royale has started a second wave of immense support that even trumps PUBG. The market is fairly crowded and more titles are on the way like Mavericks: Proving Grounds, Dying Light: Bad Blood, Paladins: Battlegrounds. That doesn’t include games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Red Dead Redemption 2 and the next Battlefield that are rumoured to have Battle Royale modes.

However, one company that isn’t currently seeking to create its own Battle Royale game is Microsoft. Xbox boss Phil Spencer was asked whether the genre was a hot topic among Microsoft’s first party studios.

Spencer noted that, “Millions are playing BR games right now” and that he didn’t “Want to just build one because others have built them. FNBR [Fortnite: Battle Royale] is massive, PUBG [PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds] is huge, new BR variants being built by some very quality devs, I’d rather support unless we find something special in 1P that’s a different take.”

Which isn’t the worst approach to take. Several current Battle Royale titles like BossKey Productions’ Radical Heights and Daybreak Game Company’s H1Z1: Auto Royale aren’t exactly setting the charts on fire. Plans could change down the line but don’t expect Battle Royale in Halo, Gears of War or Forza Motorsport anytime soon. As the original poster says though, MechAssault Battle Royale would be pretty awesome.



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SilkyPosted:

Glad to see they're not jumping on the bandwagon.

Two_FacedPosted:

Halo 6 will have BR just watch

FamousPosted:

Glad they are being smart about this. This will die out here soon you watch.

MazePosted:

Good. No need for anymore in my opinion.

DecyPosted:

Too many of them coming i think. Its great that there not looking to do anything on this anytime soon.

SR20DETPosted:

Honestly kinda glad... I feel like this BR thing is going to become over saturated and boring. Here's hope that more time will be put into games(exclusives) worth playing.

GhostPosted:

I would say I'm not surprised but sooner or later the Battle Royale mode will slowly die down.