Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox Series X and S subsequent month in a shock announcement that sees Sony publish a sport on PlayStation’s rival consoles.
Arrowhead’s explosive co-op third-person shooter launches on Xbox on August 26, 2025, a livestream confirmed. Remarkably, that is the identical day Microsoft releases Gears of Battle: Reloaded on PlayStation 5.
In a submit on Xbox Wire, Helldivers 2 Recreation Director Mikael Eriksson commented on what this launch means to the studio.
“We all know players have been asking for this for a while and we’re so excited to deliver extra Helldivers into our sport,” he stated. “We’ve got a lot extra in retailer for the long run months and years – and the extra gamers we have now the extra tales we are able to inform! The struggle for Tremendous Earth has solely simply begun.”
Crossplay throughout all platforms is confirmed, which suggests PC, PlayStation, and Xbox gamers will have the ability to play collectively.
Helldivers 2 launched on PC and PS5 in February 2024 and was a uncommon stay service smash hit for Sony. It’s the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios sport of all time, promoting an unimaginable 12 million copies in 12 weeks.
Whereas participant numbers on Steam, which Valve makes public, stay wholesome a year-and-a-half on from the record-breaking launch, the Xbox launch will no-doubt enhance the participant pool even additional.
Nonetheless, Helldivers 2’s launch on Xbox comes as a giant shock. Sony, usually, doesn’t launch PlayStation Studios video games on Xbox, preferring as a substitute to launch on PlayStation consoles solely and, in an growing variety of instances, PC. MLB The Present, developed by Sony’s San Diego Studio and revealed by Sony Interactive Leisure, is an exception and does launch on Xbox, albiet below the MLB banner. Sony additionally lately launched LEGO Horizon Adventures on Nintendo Swap, PS5, and PC.
Clearly, the as soon as impenetrable partitions of console exclusivity are coming down. Microsoft, which solely yesterday made sweeping cuts to its gaming enterprise as a part of an eye-watering spherical of layoffs affecting over 9,000 employees, is all-in on PlayStation. The aforementioned Gears of Battle: Reloaded marks the as soon as Xbox-exclusive sequence’ debut on PlayStation, Hellblade 2 hits PS5 in August, and Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds 2 releases on Sony’s console in October.
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