Microsoft has confirmed Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded and Sea Of Thieves are all coming to PlayStation 5, with some getting physical versions.
A week after Microsoft confirmed four Xbox exclusives would be heading to rival platforms, the company has officially revealed the games coming to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.
Grounded and Pentiment were both announced for Switch during this week’s Nintendo Direct but, mere hours later, Microsoft published a blog post stating both these games, along with Hi-Fi Rush and Sea Of Thieves, are also heading to PlayStation consoles.
Pentiment is officially out today (February 22) on Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Developed by Obsidian, the game is a narrative role-playing adventure set in Bavaria, Germany in the 16th century.
Grounded, a co-op survival shooter also from Obsidian, sees you play as four teenagers who have been shrunk to the size of an ant in a backyard. It will be released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch on April 16, with online crossplay support across all platforms including Xbox and PC.
Online pirate adventure game Sea Of Thieves, meanwhile, will be released on PlayStation 5 on April 30, which marks the first time developer Rare has ever launched a title on a PlayStation platform in its 40-year history.
Hi-Fi Rush, which was heavily rumoured for Nintendo Switch, has only been confirmed for PlayStation 5. The rhythm-based action platformer from Tango Gameworks will launch on the platform on March 19.
While it’s unclear if Hi-Fi Rush will ever come to the Switch, Insider Gaming reports that a port might instead be planned for the Switch 2, which is rumoured to launch in early 2025. It would make sense from a technical perspective, as Hi-Fi Rush is a more visually demanding title than the others listed.
Both Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment are also getting physical versions for the first time. Pre-orders are up now for Pentiment on Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on Limited Run Games, with more details on Hi-Fi Rush to come down the line.
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While Microsoft’s clumsy handling of the situation has generated a lot of attention around these titles going multiplatform, this isn’t the first time Xbox exclusives have made their way to other consoles. In recent years, the likes of Ori And The Blind Forest and sequel Ori And The Will Of The Wisps have both come to Nintendo Switch.
It seems like this won’t be the end of Xbox’s multiplatform experiments, however, with Phil Spencer recently not ruling out the possibility of Starfield and Indiana Jones both coming to other platforms in the future.
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