We are living in a very weird new era, one where Xbox has abandoned most pretenses of console exclusivity, putting its games not just on streaming devices like phones or tablets, but I guess its now-former rival, PlayStation.
Currently a flood of Xbox/Bethesda games are headed to PS5, and they now make up essentially half of the top 15 most-preordered games on the PlayStation Store, counting the multiple additions of different games sold. The titles in question:
- Forza Horizon 5 Premium
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Premium
- Forza Horizon 5 Standard
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Standard
- F1 25
- Death Stranding 2 Deluxe
- Elden Ring Nightreign Deluxe
- Mindseye
- Days Gone Remastered
- DOOM: The Dark Ages Premium
- Expedition 33 Deluxe
- Forza Horizon 5 Deluxe
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- DOOM: The Dark Ages Standard
- Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater Deluxe
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That’s multiple versions of three different Xbox games. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will arrive on April 14. Forza Horizon 5 will arrive on April 25. DOOM: The Dark Ages will arrive on May 12. This is actually a perfect example of all three stages of Xbox-PlayStation releases now. Indiana Jones is a timed exclusive from late last year. Forza Horizon 5 is a top Xbox game that came out back in 2021. DOOM: The Dark Ages is a simultaneous release on both Xbox and PlayStation.
While Microsoft’s overall plan, release loads of first party games elsewhere, especially PlayStation, is clear at this point, this schedule which ranges from day one to four years later is somewhat confusing and we don’t really know until close to launch when these releases are happening.
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There is insider reporting that Microsoft is gearing up to release a PS5 edition of Starfield, its big 2023 Bethesda game, by the end of this year. That raises questions about Avowed, which could do the same thing at some point here, and does not seem to have blown everyone away with its playercount, whatever it was. And of course, everyone wants to know what Microsoft will do with Elder Scroll VI when it arrives, and it seems likely that it will either be a day one cross-release (that’s a whole lot of money heading directly into Microsoft’s pocket from Sony) or it will be a time delay to encourage Game Pass sign-ups instead. There’s almost no way it would remain a fully exclusive Xbox game, I don’t think.
So, strange times. I never really thought I’d see this happen, but Xbox believes this is the future. So far, they’re the only ones.
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