Here's which Xbox games could be coming to PS5 and Switch, based on Phil Spencer's clues
Feb. 15, 2024Opinion | Only a few games fit Xbox’s specific multiplatform criteria
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During tonight’sFuture of Xbox event,MicrosoftGaming CEOPhil Spencerannounced thatfour Xbox games would be launching on new consoles, and while he wouldn’t be drawn on which fourXbox exclusiveswill be making the jump to other platforms, we can take a pretty good guess based on what Spencer said.
Spencer confirmed that he’s not telling us which games are making the multiplatform jump just yet – that’ll be up to the developers of those projects. But we do know that in addition to their age, some of the games are “community-driven,” and that they’ve “reached their full potential on Xbox and PC.”
That points to Sea of Thieves andGroundedas the most likely candidates, two games that are certainly community-driven thanks to their service-based multiplayer design, and are old enough that if you haven’t picked them up on Xbox or PC yet, you probably weren’t planning to. With no further room to expand those audiences within its current ecosystem, it seems likely that Microsoft would look to push them elsewhere.
The other two games “are smaller games that were never really meant to be built as platform exclusives […] but games that our teams really wanted to build.” Those,combined with reports from earlier in the weekpoint toHi-Fi RushandPentiment.
Of course, we won’t know for sure until the individual announcements come along, but those four titles are certainly the best fit for the criteria that Spencer has offered. Given that he’s also discussed a desire to use these ports to help keep the studios involved in good financial health, we’re also much more likely to be talking about these smaller games than anything major, like Gears of War or Halo coming to PS5.
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Elsewhere,Microsoft is already teasing its console future, with a suggestion that we’ll see more later this year, but also the promise that its next machine will offer “the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation.” Those are certainly fighting words, but we’ll likely be some way away from watching that battle play out.
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