Microsoft’s resolution to carry a few of its Xbox video games like Sea of Thieves to rival platforms was met with plenty of debate and dialogue, however no matter individuals need to say about it, the pirate sport developed by Uncommon seems to be doing nice on Sony’s platform.
Windows Central studies that Sea of Thieves has offered greater than 1 million copies on PlayStation 5 because it launched there in April. Sea of Thieves initially got here to PC and Xbox One in 2018 earlier than a local model for Xbox Sequence X|S got here out in March 2024.
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At Gamescom this week, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer reminded people who Xbox is a enterprise that exists to make cash. And with that in thoughts, Spencer mentioned bringing Xbox video games to competing platforms is “going to be a technique that works for us.” Spencer additionally mentioned Xbox video games coming to competing programs like PlayStation and Swap is an extension of the altering online game enterprise panorama.
“We simply need to anticipate that there’s going to be extra change in how a few of the conventional ways in which video games had been are constructed and distributed,” the manager mentioned.
Microsoft has to date launched a handful of its Xbox video games on rival platforms, together with Sea of Thieves, Hello-Fi Rush, Pentiment, and Grounded. Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle will come subsequent to PS5 in 2025.
Whereas Microsoft is bringing its Xbox video games to PlayStation and Swap, the identical is just not true for the opposite corporations. Sony’s PlayStation video games stay unique on console to PS4 and PS5 (and a few are launched on PC), whereas Nintendo’s internally developed video games are solely launched on Swap. The Xbox Sequence X|S platform is in third place because it pertains to gross sales, in comparison with PS5 and Swap.
Sea of Thieves reached 40 million players previous to its launch on PS5.