Why are ‘Fall Guys’ not on Xbox One?

It’s question that gets spammed in conversation, on social media, almost every time Fall Guys comes up. With the game a massive hit on PC and PS4, why not Fall Guys on Xbox One yet? When is it coming?

I tried to see if there was a real answer here, but every article I found was more or less “we do not know!” but there is a likely answer, I believe.

First, Fall Guys heard the feedback from everyone. They understand that people want to see the game on Xbox One, and this is their reaction to that:

This was a month ago, but “no plans” does not sound super promises, even if they claim they want to on the platform. It’s not like it would take some massive technical work to make an Xbox version of the game compared to a PS4 version, but they do not confirm that they are still doing so.

But why?

The reason is almost certainly their PS Plus deal with Sony this month.

While yes, it’s true that Fall Guys for free on PS Plus would have been an even better deal than say, if $ 20 on Xbox at this launch this month, it’s arguable that one of the provisions for one of the at all desired PS Plus game features (especially for a smaller game) was that no, the game could not appear on Xbox. Maybe just for this first month, maybe for longer, it’s hard to tell. Although yes, Fall Guys was announced as a “console exclusive” for PS4 back in the day. Those deals are usually time-oriented.

The Fall Guys team commented on a PS4 reddit AMA just how important the PS Plus feature was to them, and why they pursued it so hard:

“Sony was really enthusiastic about the game when we showed them an early version of it, and we felt that taking this route would help expose the game to a much larger audience than we could have achieved on our own. It’s also something that worked super well for Rocket League, that has been one of our inspirations. ”

The Rocket League comparison is dead, because entire gaming empires like those series are formed from a PS Plus feature, and that’s what Fall Guys tried to do with their own feature. And they have clearly succeeded. That yes, even if it is used to be part of the deal that the game could not appear on Xbox One during the PS Plus feature (or longer), it was almost certainly worth the cost with how much the game is inflated. Partly because of Twitch and every streamer you’ve ever heard of playing, in part because of the PS Plus showcase.

Finally, Rocket League made it to Xbox One, and we can look at that game to guess how long it might take the Fall Guys to do the same.

Rocket League was released on PS4 and PC in July 2015. It came out on Xbox One in February 2016. That is seven months later. Again, it is not clear if that was a “mandatory” waiting time for the port to cost a PS Plus feature, or if it is exactly how long it took for the developer to get into it. But my judgment is no, Fall Guys may not be coming to Xbox One (or Switch, for that matter) for a while. But keep asking, I think.

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