An insider has said that recent «leaks» regarding Monster Hunter Wilds were fake. The leaks claimed that Monster Hunter Wilds would release in Q1 2025, among other things.
11.03.2024 - 15:25 / screenrant.com / Phil Spencer / Glenn Bunn
An Xbox insider has responded to recent rumors that have claimed Ninja Theory is porting to the PlayStation 5. Reports of more Xbox-exclusive titles going multi-platform have become more common since Xbox CEO, Phil Spencer, announced four of the platform's first-party games would also be going to Nintendo and PlayStation devices.
In early February, prior to Spencer's multi-platform announcement, 's Nick Baker suggested that and would be among the Xbox-exclusive titles coming to other platforms, and the rumors surrounding a PS5 port resurfaced during the latest, March 9 episode of the, in which host Riskit4TheBiskit made these claims citing "" A day later, responding to a post by Idle Sloth on X, Microsoft insider and Managing Editor at, Jez Corden, promptly dismissed this rumor, stating that "."
Although Spencer didn't reveal it at the time, it is now known that the four Xbox titles that have gone multi-platform as part of the company's new strategy are,, and. At the time, Spencer debunked rumors surrounding and going multi-platform for now, although there was no mention of .
Spencer stated that the titles Microsoft considered for multiplatform release were over a year old, with a couple of them being community-driven, enabling Microsoft to continue to invest and build upon them, likely referencing and, the latter of which is the most pre-ordered game on PlayStation at the time of writing. None of the titles in question were launch exclusives, so even if the multiplatform strategy does seem to be a success — and it is shaping up to be — Xbox will likely keep some of its big AAA titles such as as timed exclusives at least.
is being marketed as one of Microsoft's biggest console exclusives of 2024, and won't be out on Xbox Series S/X and PC until late May. Therefore, even if Microsoft and Ninja Theory do look to bring the game to PlayStation at some point, it won't be for quite some time.
Sources: Nick Baker/X, Riskit4TheBiskit/YouTube, Idle Sloth/X, Jez Corden/X
An insider has said that recent «leaks» regarding Monster Hunter Wilds were fake. The leaks claimed that Monster Hunter Wilds would release in Q1 2025, among other things.
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