With Grounded, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush, Microsoft has brought a number of its first-party Xbox titles to rival platforms in recent weeks, and though that’s set to continue with Sea of Thieves, which launches for PS5 on April 30, for now, that’s as much as we know about Microsoft’s plans for multiplatform releases. Interestingly, however, CEO Satya Nadella has suggested that more Xbox titles will be following in the aforementioned games’ footsteps.
As reported by VGC, during Microsoft’s recent quarterly earnings call, Nadella touched on the success that Xbox titles have recently found on rival platforms.
“Earlier this month, we had seven games among the top 25 on the PlayStation Store, more than any other publisher,” he said, seemingly referring to a TweakTown piece that was published earlier in April, which reported that Microsoft had seven games in the PlayStation Store’s top 25 best-seller regional charts at the time, more even than Sony (which had five). That included games from Bethesda and Activision Blizzard.
Nadella added: “We are committed to meeting players where they are by bringing great games to more people on more devices.”
Reports have previously claimed that Microsoft is looking at Sea of Thieves as “a key test” for whether it’ll give multiplatform releases to more of its games, and that it plans on bringing the “majority” of its titles to PS5 “at some point”.
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer himself refused to rule out the possibility of even major first-party Xbox games like Starfield and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle eventually coming to PS5. Read more on that through here.
