Limited Run Games Explains Why Felix The Cat Is Skipping Xbox

After revealing that the rare Felix the Cat game is heading to PlayStation and the Switch, it left some questioning why it’s not heading to Xbox. Not long after, Limited Run Games’ CEO responded.

In a series of responses on Twitter, CEO Josh Fairhurst chalked it up to logistics. Xbox owners are largely digital-first gamers, and since LRG isn’t making money off of digital sales this time around, it couldn’t justify the port. Konami isn’t giving it any stake digital sales, and it can’t guarantee that it will profit enough to have justified the Xbox port.

While it’s disappointing, we do understand, Xbox players are more digital-first than even other platforms, and from his numbers, it sounds like it sells less than 5,000 Xbox versions of any given port made by them.

“If we could count on selling 5,000+ of a title physically on Xbox, we could justify the ports without a digital stake, but we only sell those kinds of numbers on PlayStation and Switch. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Xbox gamers are digital first. It’s not that we can’t develop Xbox ports or that we’re too cheap to do it, it’s that we don’t earn anything on the game digitally. Physical game sales are not high enough on Xbox to offset our development costs, so we have no option but to skip Xbox on these titles. When we do have a reasonable digital share in a game we’re developing, we do release it on Xbox, but we have 0 digital share on these ones.”

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