Arkane executives confirmed that the game "Red Sauvignon Island" originally planned to be released in PlayStation, but was changed to Xbox monopoly at the request of Microsoft.
CTOnews.com, March 23, "Redfall" is a FPS shooting game developed by Arkane Austin Studio with the theme of hunting vampires. The game is exclusively owned by Xbox on the game console platform, but in a recent interview, the developer revealed that he had planned to release a PlayStation version of the game.
Arkane Austin Studios is part of the ZeniMax Group, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2021. Arkane executives said in a recent interview that the launch of a PlayStation version was considered at the beginning of the development of Cabernet Sauvignon.
"Hongxia Island" is an open world first-person shooter game that supports single-player mode and cooperation mode, developed by Arkane Austin, the award-winning team that created "Prey" and "Dishonored". This game still brings the game world and immersive simulation game experience that Arkane has always created, bringing the studio's signature game play to this plot-led action shooting game.
Harvey Smith, creative director of Arkane, said in an interview that Microsoft asked to cancel the PS version of Red Sauvignon Island. CTOnews.com translated some of his interviews as follows:
We were acquired by Microsoft, which is a change in the capital round C financing process. Microsoft stressed that it should focus on Xbox, PC and Game Pass instead of PlayStation 5.