Microsoft Multiplatform strategy is clearly paying off when it comes to starting on PlayStation 5, as well as Xbox Series X and S and PC.
The confirmation comes from Sony itself, through PlayStation Blog Post This revealed the best -selling PlayStation shop games in April 2025.
In the United States and Canada, the three best places on the PS5 download chart were not played by Microsoft Games: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft and Forza Horizon 5.
It was a similar situation in Europe, from Forza Horizon 5 on top, and then Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, and then Minecraft.
Clair Obsurpur: Expedition 33, which Microsoft supported, signing a contract for the premiere of games for the day, as well as the appearance in Xbox Showcase broadcasts, also appeared high on both charts.
And let’s not forget about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, with Activision belonging to Microsoft, and Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, from Bethesda belonging to Microsoft, which appear on the charts.
What does this tell us? These good games, regardless of whether they come from Microsoft or in a different way, at the top of sales charts. This may be surprising. No wonder these games are doing well on PlayStation. PS5 shouted at the game like a wonderful playground driver, Forza Horizon 5, so its April premiere on the console was eagerly awaited. Then there are Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, which scratches this Bethesda on the PC and console, as well as the eternally popular minecraft, even more popular, and the movie Minecraft becomes viral and beating of the plates.
This is now a fresh normal for Microsoft, which has just announced Gears of War: Reloaded for PC, Xbox and PlayStation, which appeared in August. It seems inevitable that Halo, which was once an exclusive Xbox, will also jump.
Last year, The head of the Microsoft games, Phil Spencer, said that there are no “red lines” in its composition of the first page when it comes to multiplatform – And it included Halo. Talking with BloombergSpencer said that every Xbox game is available when it comes to multi -platform jump. “In our portfolio I don’t see the red lines that they say” you can’t, “he said.
Spencer said that the Push Xbox multiplatform is partly to introduce more money to the Microsoft-Z game industry to provide the supply of $ 69 billion in the acquisition of Call of Duty Maker Activision Blizzard.
“We run a company” Spencer said in August. “This is definitely the truth in Microsoft Bar is high for us in terms of delivery, which we have to give to the company. Because we receive a level of support for a company that is simply amazing and what we can do.
“So I look at how we can make our games so strong? Our platform is constantly growing, on the console, on PC and on the cloud. It will simply be a strategy that works for us.”
List of the Xbox Games series
List of the Xbox Games series
As the former director of Xbox Peter Moore said last yearBringing Halo to PlayStation for some time will be the subject of discussion in Microsoft.
“Look, if Microsoft says: Wait, we do $ 250 million on our own platforms, but if we take Halo as, let’s call it the third page, we could do a billion … You have to think about it for a long time, right?” Moore said.
“I mean that you just have to go, so do you have to stop it? It is a piece of intellectual property. It is greater than just the game. And how do you use it? These are conversations that always happen, how do you use it in everything we would do?
“He had his ups and downs, but look, Xbox would not be what Xbox without Halo is. But yes, I’m sure these conversations are taking place. Regardless of whether they realize, who knows? But definitely happens, I’m sure.”
Microsoft is facing the potential slack of Hardcore Xbox fans who are already dissatisfied after they think it is devalizing Xbox as a console, no exclusions and Microsoft marketing strategy for its games in the field of games. Losing Halo on PlayStation can cause another angry answer, but Moore said Ign that he would not stop Microsoft from doing what is suitable for his activities.
“The question is ultimately whether a sufficient reaction cannot be made a fundamental business decision for the future not only of Microsoft’s activities, but also to play?” Moore said. “These hardcore are getting smaller and older. You must satisfy the generations that are coming because they will run the company in the next 10, 20 years.”
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