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?
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.