As we know by now Microsoft are releasing four previously console exclusive games on PS4 & PS5. Pentiment, Hi-Fi RUSH, Grounded and Sea of Thieves will all launch on PlayStation over the next 2 months.
For Microsoft the move makes perfect sense. These are games that have run their course (sales wise) on Xbox and now they are testing if there is a decent amount of money to made by making them multi-platform titles.
Chances are they will make a healthy profit from these games which is likely to open the flood games for select older Xbox games to make the jump to PlayStation.
So should Sony follow suit?
I think they should and should start with a similar offering of 4 older PlayStation games to release on Xbox.
Spider-Man
God of War
Horizon Zero Dawn
Ratchet & Clank
These are all games that are already available on PC so aren’t technically exclusive to PlayStation anymore.
So why not see if those games can find a new audience and make some extra cash for Sony by releasing them to the 25 million plus Xbox Series owners?
Like Xbox bringing games to PlayStation it can only be win everyone. Xbox players get more games to play and Sony generates extra revenue to invest in future games. There’s not really a down side I can see.
What do you think.
Would you like to see more people getting to experience Spider-Man or God of War?
I don’t see why Sony would do that.
They aren’t Microsoft and they aren’t struggling right now so I wouldn’t see them taking such a risk.
Releasing on PC is not the same as releasing on a concurrent console.
Microsoft is still making money on every windows system in the world, whereas Sony has to be more careful about safekeeping the PlayStation brand.
I think when they see the sales numbers for the 4 Xbox games they might be more than a little tempted.
After all they’re a business and won’t leave a butt load of cash on the table just to keep some 6 year old games exclusive that likely aren’t selling much on PlayStation anymore.
Or the Xbox sales will underwhelm and Sony will keep their games.
I didn’t realise it was 3-1. I must have missed that news.
No wonder Xbox games are coming to PlayStation. However that’s still almost 25 million potential new customers for Sony to sell games too. Games that aren’t likely to still be making much money on PS.
I’d say that they don’t risk much if they only sell really old games on Xbox, but 2 years old games would be risky as I’m clearly someone who could wait two years for a game with my backlog.
I also hope that Xbox isn’t gonna disappear as a console as Sony needs some concurrency.
I’m also hoping that Microsoft is gonna publish a Gears of War anthology in physical form on ps5, but I might be dreaming 😅
lol Microsoft is only doing it because Sony murdered the absolute fuck out of them on sales. And that’s with a routinely sub-$300 “current gen” and an extremely lengthy launch window where Xbox had consoles available to buy and Sony didn’t. (Yes, Sony sold out because the demand was higher. But, there are a lot of people who play one game, or a small handful of games, that were on both consoles, and were easier to get an Xbox to play.) And even then they’re not exactly bringing over heavy hitters.
I’m all for making games also available on PC. But supporting Xbox when they have a trash version you’re required to treat “equally” is asking a lot. I also want them leaning harder into the storage features, so definitely don’t want them building games with “it has to run on Xbox” in mind.
The exclusive games are the primary reason the PlayStation is selling (much) better than the XBOX. Sony knows that and as long as they’re on top they aren’t going to change a thing about that, as much as I would love that.
Even their PC releases come years after the first launch of a game, once it won’t threaten the console sales anymore if people could just play it on PC or XBOX instead of buying a PlayStation.
It’s the same reason Mario and Zelda won’t make it to PlayStation or XBOX (even more so, since XBOX and PlayStation are at least very similar, performance and feature wise, while the Switch is so far behind the competition, it wouldn’t sell at all if there were no interesting exclusives)
Microsoft on the other hand has nothing to lose, really. Games like sea of thieves aren’t gonna sell XBOXes, especially since they weren’t Console exclusives to begin with. They were on PC already…
Nintendo Switch consoles have nearly 3x more sales than PlayStation 5 does while making a profit on hardware AND software, whereas both PS5 and Series X|S consoles sell at a loss and make up their profits via software.
