Shut0wen
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As a live service game thats successful sony would be dumb as shit not to allow it to happen, its clear as day a majority of there live services games are going multi, why else buy bungie
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Sony Is Allegedly In Preliminary Talks To Bring Helldivers 2 To Xbox Series X|S
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Mr Moose
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A lot of Xbox users have been programmed not to buy games. I doubt Sony would waste time with it.Same. But this is modern-day Sony. I won't be surprised if they do bring it to Xbox in a few months. Hell, they'd probably announce the port at the next PlayStation Showcase.
The brand just feels like it's moved away so much from its core values and doing away with hunger to genuinely compete, so this type of move wouldn't surprise me. That said, the source is complete BS and ironic considering how much they complain about PlayStation, yet they seem to always have PlayStation sources? WTF
Punished Miku
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I'm still playing Exoprimal. If Xbox gets a cheaper PvE like this I'm interested. I didnt get it on PS5 because I am not paying $80 a year to play online on a system I barely use.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Well, the COD releases still do well on the platform, same with other shooters it'd seem. So they do buy some games, and Helldivers 2 would probably appeal to that camp.
Could also be that MS just pay to put it in Game Pass. Dunno, something just feels a bit weird about the Helldivers 2 situation all around. No sales update, prominent online hype/attention mainly being pushed via Steam, Phil Spencer's stupid complaining about a game he should very well know is a Sony-owned IP, and all of this around the time of MS going more fully 3P. Normally it seems Sony'd be boasting about the game's performance and doing everything to associate such a success with PlayStation but that hasn't happened this time around for whatever reason.
Something seems like it could be orchestrated and there may've always been plans to bring Helldivers 2 to Xbox, maybe alongside a new season update. I won't completely rule it out.
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phaedrus
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IlGialloMondadori
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I wouldn’t even care if it went to Xbox. What I do care about is loser Xbox podcaster clowns. When I see it’s them:
lughnasadh123
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I don't think it's the micro-transaction driven game that would make sense to go multiplatform with especially since exclusives still work in their favor.
demigod
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You really made a thread about this fake rumor? This is a new low for you. 0 chance this happens.This isn't a "helldivers needs to be on xbox to be successful" thread though, this is something being reported online. The source is hit-or-miss but let's be honest, when has that stopped people from making threads baout it in the past.
edit: applies to post above too
TrebleShot
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Good , would be a smart move to make it truly huge.
It’s a genuine candidate to be a spearhead franchise and everyone should be able to play it.
Just bring us cross save you absolute cretins.
It’s a genuine candidate to be a spearhead franchise and everyone should be able to play it.
Just bring us cross save you absolute cretins.
mansoor1980
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at last.......................
What is MBL… MLB maybe? And it’s published by Sony… so that’s cap
Mr Moose
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MLB
Developed by
San Diego Studio
Release date
28/03/2023
Gameplay Gods Bless
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Your talking about the past, those decisions were mad under Jim Ryan who also deviated from the decisions made in the past before him with Shawn Laden. This new Playstation boss' priorities is making more with less. I'm not saying it's gonna happen but this sort of stuff is the future. In an industry that isn't growing in new users **you have to get new players from somewhere**.
Aenima
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MLB the Show is not published by Sony on Xbox. MLB is the publisher of the Xbox version. And im pretty sure it was MLB forcing Sony to make it multiplat in order for Sony to retain the MLB licence.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Topher
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Which matters for free to play games. Vast majority of folks ain't buying this game more than once.
GHG
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Grade A hopium.
S0ULZB0URNE
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Aenima
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When most multiplatform games end with a 80 to 20 sales ratio between PS5 and Series consoles, it dosent seem Sony would care much when some 3rd party games already skip Xbox for the same reasons. When Sony talks about multiplatform releases they talking about Playstation consoles + PC + Mobile.
It would make more sense if these rumors was about Sony releasing games on Switch, that has a huge playerbase. But thats not where the console warriors come from so you wount see those rumors.
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Moriarty1889
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Not going to happen. Let Xbox make something unique and successful on their own.…….that may never happen though.
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SenkiDala
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Bought it even though I knew I'd find it boring. And to my surprise (no) I found it boring and played 1h.
Sony Is Allegedly In Preliminary Talks To Bring Helldivers 2 To Xbox Series X|S
Sony is allegedly in preliminary talks to bring Arrowhead Game Studios' cooperative third-person shooter, Helldivers 2, to Xbox Series X|S.twistedvoxel.com
Would make sense to bring it on Xbox since the point of online games is to be played as many people as possible. And it can be a part of a deal to come (like Halo on PS etc).
splattered
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Portugeezer
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MS should pay them to put it on Gamepass 
W11d
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You can say it about any exclusive game including Nintendo. We all know why some of you started to push this narrative for Sony to start porting games on Xbox.
StueyDuck
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Too fat to leave the house
Shut0wen
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Same, i mean sea of thieves is doing well on ps5 pre orders while sony would get 30% of every purchase MS would still get the remaining 70% as a company i doubt sony would be happy about it, it has potential to take players away from other live service games and generate money for the competition and sony cant even refuse, especially with all the EU laws
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Tell that to Valve when it comes to Counterstrike 2 and DOTA 2, or Nintendo when it comes to Splatoon.
More platforms = more players is yet another fallacy in gaming.
That's probably another reason there's a non-zero chance Helldivers 2 does get an Xbox port: if MS are using PS players to siphon for Sea of Thieves (potentially at the expense of other GAAS titles on PS5), Sony would probably want to do the same on Xbox. Sony's problem is, there isn't much to siphon from on the Xbox side for a live-service game that still cost money as a B2P.
Yeah there are Xbox gamers into shooters who still buy them but the number has been dropping off every year. When Sony could've probably been more strict about what things Microsoft could do when bringing games to PlayStation (for example, not allowing MS to force PS5 owners to make a Microsoft email account to play online), they weren't, for whatever reason.
It's not coincidence that all these pushes for "open platforms" just conveniently benefit smaller players regardless if it was their own hubris and bad business decisions that got them there, and punishes dominant players regardless if they became so out of fair competition and just having better business sense. It's some of the worst kind of equity.
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Topher
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I really doubt that. Microsoft has an absolute *need* to publish their games on PlayStation. That is a direct result of their failing console business. The need is so great that they are willing to sacrifice actual users in their ecosystem in order to reach the far superior numbers on PlayStation.
None of that is true for PlayStation. There is far less incentive for Sony to publish games on Xbox. I would be shocked if that happened.
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demigod
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There are rumors that makes sense, this makes 0 sense and will never see the light of day.My guy here sweating bullets over a 'fake' rumor
All rumors are fake until official.
Trogdor1123
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Every Xbox is a PlayStation too it seems!
I’m not opposed to this. Why not? I don’t think it will actually happen as it would probably take a decent amount of time to port it but I’d be ok with it.
I’m not opposed to this. Why not? I don’t think it will actually happen as it would probably take a decent amount of time to port it but I’d be ok with it.
W11d
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They try to simplify it to "just port it to Xbox = easy money". That's like saying "It would make sense for Netflix to put their shows on Peacock and make some easy money".
Generic
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These games would have more players if they were released on other platforms.
GHG
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The only way this happens is if Sony and Nintendo stop making hardware.
What you're failing to understand is the fundamental reason why Microsoft are having to do this at the moment despite still selling their own closed hardware. They made a bet on gamepass expansion/growth which has failed. Because of the not so insignificant amount of money that they've spent on publishers people outside and above Xbox are demanding they recoup some of that cost and the only way for them to do that is to sell their games on platforms that aren't Xbox because they have conditioned their userbase to not purchase games. Let me put it this way, if gamepass was still growing at the rate it did during the first couple of years then there is no world where they start porting games to Sony and Nintendo systems.
Neither Sony or Nintendo are in that predicament or have the same degree of financial pressure due to spending almost 100 billion on publishers/studios. Microsoft created that situation for themselves and the gamepass/acquisition junkies amongst their fanbase perpetuated it.
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Topher
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That's why the game is on PC. Sony isn't in a position where they have to publish games on their direct competition's platform.
Men_in_Boxes
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Christopher Dring: "Developers at GDC told me they're having a hard time justifying bringing their games to Series XS consoles."
XBox fanboy tard: "Sony and MS are in early talks to bring the most successful PlayStation game in 10 years to Series XS consoles."
XBox fanboy tard: "Sony and MS are in early talks to bring the most successful PlayStation game in 10 years to Series XS consoles."
Look...MS are porting games to Sony and Nintendo for a reason.
It would be very odd to port a game to Xbox...when most Xbox users have been conditioned to Wait For Game Pass.
Unless MS is passing out Game Pass deals to Sony now?
Is this still part of the 'Sony players want Xbox players to help them play HD2" ?
It would be very odd to port a game to Xbox...when most Xbox users have been conditioned to Wait For Game Pass.
Unless MS is passing out Game Pass deals to Sony now?
Is this still part of the 'Sony players want Xbox players to help them play HD2" ?
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