Apparently, 2024 is not only the year of PlayStation-to-PC ports but also the year of migration from Xbox to PlayStation. While some will lament the loss of console exclusives, whatever that might mean in this day and age, the real winners here are the players.
The more accessible gaming is on every platform, the more the industry and its consumers gain. Why play Halo only on Xbox, when you can feel how a Warthog rolls over on a DualSense controller?
That's right! Halo: The Master Chief Collection is allegedly heading to the PlayStation ecosystem, along with some other great Xbox-only titles. Well, Xbox and PC only titles, to be more precise. But being pedantic doesn't change anything in this discussion.
A new leak or insider information is making the rounds from reliable X (Twitter) tech accounts like Zuby_Tech. The latest one is exciting, but when you think about it, this concept was unfathomable a few years ago.
Who would have thought to ever see Master Chief in all his glory run on Sony's console? Or Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded, and even the great Microsoft Flight Simulator? Microsoft's juggernaut of a sim is beloved and respected among the gaming community and has been for a very long time. Widening its market will only benefit the series. As a bonus, other sources with some pretty good grounds speak of Starfield coming to PlayStation.
Then we have Forza Horizon 5 and Forza Motorsport. Sadly, these two didn't make the list, but that doesn't mean plans haven't been discussed. Judging by the variety of titles that might be coming to PlayStation, it wouldn't be out of the question to involve a Forza game at some point, either as a standalone title on the PS store or part of Game Pass on Sony's console.
I know it sounds like blasphemy, but after buying Zenimax and Activision-Blizzard for $75.4 billion, Microsoft now has bigger fish to fry than waving the console exclusivity flag for the sake of the "console wars."
The next Doom title, or "Doom Year Zero," along with other upcoming Bethesda titles, is also believed to make the leap on PS consoles.
Photo: Microsoft
Blade from Arkane Studios is another rumored one, and we haven't heard anything about Avowed from Obsidian Entertainment. Still, it would make sense for that as well. The pattern here is not simply everything under the sun, but indeed everything under Xbox publishing sometime after getting released on their ecosystem.
Now, whether there will ever be a reverse scenario where we'll see PlayStation's 1st party franchises like Uncharted, God of War, The Last of Us, Gran Turismo, or Horizon on Xbox consoles or Game Pass... is an entirely different discussion.
The odds of that happening are slim to none, but as they say, "Never say never." Who knows what the gaming landscape will look like 10 or 15 years from now? Especially if we take into consideration that since the dawn of Game Pass in June 2017, Microsoft's direction within the gaming space has been to slowly transition from hardware to a digital platform that could end up on every system out there. Yes, even on Nintendo consoles, which would be nothing short of an industry miracle.
PlayStation itself has been porting its once-exclusive games on PC for the past few years, and in 2024, there have been a lot of rumors of amazing titles that could join the old desktop. Among the already-confirmed Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition and Until Dawn, Gran Turismo 7 has been the subject of leaks.
"When everybody plays, we all win." Tell you what, for better or worse, this industry has never been so exciting and interesting to watch and analyze either from up close or from afar.
Rumour Multiple Xbox IP's Coming To PlayStation 5:
• Sea Of Thieves
• Hi-Fi Rush
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Grounded
• Halo The Master Chief Collection
• id Software Next Title Launching On PlayStation Day 1 (Doom Year Zero)
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