It seems like hell has frozen over as Sony has introduced a recreation for Xbox. In a primary, a Sony-owned and funded IP is touchdown on a rival platform with Helldivers 2, and it’s out on Sequence X|S ahead of you assume.
Sony-owned Helldivers 2 releases on Xbox this August
Arrowhead Recreation Studios has introduced that Helldivers 2 will launch on Xbox Sequence X|S on August 26. The hit shooter is a second-party recreation as Arrowhead itself just isn’t owned by Sony however the IP is.
The one different occasion we’ve seen of a Sony-funded IP touchdown on Xbox is Dying Stranding. Nevertheless, it’s value noting that Sony offered the IP to developer Kojima Productions, who has lengthy advocated for multiplatform releases.
It’s unclear if Sony plans to do one thing comparable with Helldivers or not, however this can be a totally different case than Dying Stranding as Helldivers 2 is a multiplayer recreation. Sony has beforehand acknowledged that reside service titles profit from multiplatform releases. It’s why first-party multiplayer video games are actually anticipated to launch on PC day-and-date.
At present, the one PlayStation-developed recreation that releases on Xbox platforms is MLB: The Present collection, however Sony was robust armed into releasing the video games on Xbox by IP proprietor MLB itself.
Bungie’s Marathon can also be anticipated to launch on Xbox, however a part of Bungie’s phrases of settlement with Sony on the time of its acquisition was that its video games will stay multiplatform — once more, a special case.
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