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26.03.2024 - 02:35 / gamerant.com / Christopher Dring / Dominik Bo / Nintendo
Many more Xbox games are planned to go multi-platform, according to a new report that emerged from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2024. Microsoft's ongoing multi-platform push is understood to be coinciding with some third-party publishers losing faith in the Xbox ecosystem.
Following weeks' worth of rumors that stirred up quite a lot of drama among its fans, Microsoft confirmed that it's bringing four Xbox games to other platforms in mid-February. Those titles were promptly revealed to be Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush. The latter duo already had their multi-platform debuts, while the former pair is scheduled to reach select Xbox rival platforms in April. Some industry watchers also count As Dusk Falls in this wave of releases, because while it wasn't developed by a Microsoft subsidiary, it was published by Xbox Game Studios in 2022 before making its way to PlayStation consoles in March 2024.
Those titles won't be the end of Microsoft's plans to strengthen its competitors' content catalogs, according to Christopher Dring of GamesIndustry.biz (via VGC). During the latest episode of the GI Microcast podcast, Dring said he understands that «the majority» of modern Xbox games will be coming to the PS5 «at some point.» The company's commitment to more platform-inclusive publishing arrives at a time when its own ecosystem is falling behind its rivals. Dring said that Microsoft appears to be particularly struggling on the Old Continent, having characterized Xbox sales as «flatlining» in Europe, citing two publishers who chimed in on the matter during GDC 2024.
Some third parties are now understood to be becoming disillusioned with the entirety of the Xbox ecosystem as a result of its ongoing struggles to grow its installed base. Looking to illustrate that point, Dring recalled a GDC conversation with a «major company who released a big game» on Xbox in 2023, stating that its representative bluntly said «I don't know why we bothered supporting it» in reference to Microsoft's consoles. In a rare official update offered during the Best International Games Festival in June 2023, Microsoft revealed that both the PS5 and Switch have been outselling the Xbox Series X/S two to one.
Game
PC/Xbox Release
Multi-Platform Release
Notes
Pentiment
November 15, 2022
February 22, 2024
Ported to the Switch, PS4, and PS5.
As Dusk Falls
July 19, 2022
March 7, 2024
Not developed by Microsoft, but originally published by Xbox Game Studios. Ported to the PS4 and PS5.
Hi-Fi Rush
January 25, 2023
March 19, 2024
Ported to the PS5.
Grounded
September 27, 2022
April 16, 2024
Coming to the Switch, PS4, and PS5.
Sea of Thieves
March 20, 2018
April 30, 2024
Coming to the PS5.
While the early February reports of many Xbox games going
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