PUBG Devs: Black Budget Development Began Before Extraction Genre Boom
While the battle royale genre was the popular trend in multiplayer games for the past few years, the genre has since been leapfrogged by the popularity of extraction shooters like ARC Raiders and Marathon.
Another extraction shooter that’s on the way is PUBG: Black Budget, and as you can guess. it’s one made by the PUBG devs, which popularized the battle royale genre in the first place.
While it might seem like the folks at PUBG Studios seem to be jumping on the extraction shooter craze, the developers are quick to point out that’s not the case.
PUBG: Black Budget Not Chasing Trends
Speaking exclusively to MP1st, Taeseok Jang, Head of PUBG IP Franchise Group, answered our questions regarding the franchise, and one of it was about extraction shooters.
MP1st: PUBG was the game that popularized the Battle Royale genre. But you know, that seems to be the case for any genre dropping on the scene, where all it takes is one game to make it big. Now we’re seeing that for extraction shooters, with even PUBG having its own, Black Budget, in development. As the extraction shooter market reaches a fever pitch, how are you balancing the pressure to release a ‘trendy’ genre title with the need to provide a truly disruptive innovation that prevents Black Budget from being just another seasonal entry in a crowded field?
A. It is true that PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS popularized the battle royale genre and had a significant impact on the broader games industry. But when we start a project, our criteria for starting a new project is never about chasing trends — it is whether we can create a genuinely new kind of fun that a large number of players will love. Black Budget, in fact, began well before the extraction genre started drawing major attention, from the question of how the core strengths of PUBG could be reinterpreted within a new structure. Rather than simply following market momentum, we are focused on weaving the unique PUBG experience into a new genre to deliver something fresh and genuinely fun for players.
While Black Budget might have been conceived before the extraction shooter boom, that won’t matter to the general gaming populace, given it’ll be releasing after ARC Raiders and Marathon.
For now, PUBG: Black Budget has no set release date and is in development for PC. Once we know more about it, we’ll let our readers know.
Will Black Budget achieve the same level of success as its base game predecessor? We can’t say for sure, but if the extraction shooter craze stays as long as the battle royale one, then PUBG Studios has a fighting chance at the very least.
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