Game news You’re not dreaming, this Xbox video game is sold more on the PS5 store than Stellar Blade, in Europe!

Game news You are not dreaming, this Xbox video game is sold more on the PS5 store than Stellar Blade, in Europe!

A bottle in the sea

As you must surely remember, Microsoft, at the beginning of the year, formalized its desire to port more titles to consoles other than the Xbox. The first wave was Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of ​​Thieves, Grounded and Pentiment. “We made the decision to port four games to other consoles. Only four games, so it’s not a fundamental change in our strategy related to exclusives” said Phil Spencer on February 15. “We are focusing on these four games and we will learn from this experience. (…) We will see what happens” he subsequently explained at The Verge. So what happens now that these titles are available on Sony’s machine? Well, the success is there overall, especially for a particular production.

Sony has just published a table on his blog displaying the most downloaded games in Europe (digital format, therefore). Despite the release of Stellar Blade on April 26, a new feature exclusive to the PS5 which has caused a lot of buzz, it is indeed Sea of ​​Thieves which is in first place in the top. An Xbox game from Rare released 6 years ago, and the first title from the British studio to land on a Sony machine. The result of the software is particularly impressive since it officially arrived on April 30, although it was possible to pre-order it in order to benefit from early access. Released on April 16, Grounded is in eighth place in Europe. As for the United States, Helldivers 2 is in first place, followed by Stellar Blade and then Sea of ​​Thieves.

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The future of Xbox on PS5 and Switch 2?

Of course, even if the figures seem encouraging, it remains to be seen in the long term what these losses of exclusivity will mean for the Xbox brand.. For the moment, with this case-by-case treatment of the loss of exclusivity, Pandora’s box is open and rumors are accumulating. If we take Spencer’s descriptions of why gaming services benefit from being cross-platform at face value, then there are some big questions to be asked. “We think it’s important that these service-based games, supported by communities, can have confidence that they will exist in the future. It’s good for the player and good for the communities, because there are more players to play with” he declared. Today Sea of ​​Thieves and Grounded, tomorrow Halo, Gears of War and Forza Horizon? With such a definition, all multiplayer games published by Microsoft are potentially targeted.

What’s in it for Xbox players? “We see an opportunity to use other platforms as a way to generate more commercial value from these games, allowing us to invest in sequels or simply more games of this type in our portfolio” assured Spencer. But today, it is mainly studio closures that fans of the brand are observing.