Over the last couple of months, numerous former Xbox exclusive titles have made the jump to competitor platforms. Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded were the first four titles to come to PS5 and Nintendo Switch, but more will be coming soon — including possibly Starfield.
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer has been doing the press rounds and in a recent interview with Gamertag Radio, he suggested that even more Xbox first-party titles will be coming to PS5 in 2025.
“We love the native experience we have on our own platform and our own hardware, and that’s something that will continue with us, but we’re not going to put walls up where people can engage with great games our studios are building, or where they can experience Xbox on different forms, whether it’s cloud, PC, handheld PCs, phones. I want everyone to be able to play on Xbox,” Spencer said.
“It does mean more of our game shipping on more platforms. Not just PlayStation. We love the work we do with Nintendo. We love what we do with Valve on Steam. That’s going to continue,” he added. “We’ll just continue to do more of it. What we’ve learned is put the games first. Make sure the games can be as great as they can. We love the experience on our own hardware, our own platform. But our games will show up in more and more places, no doubt.”
Just this week at the Xbox Developer Direct, it was revealed that the new Ninja Gaiden 4 game will be published by Xbox Games Publishing, and it will also be available on PlayStation 5 alongside Xbox Series X|S. DOOM: The Dark Ages, which is published by the Microsoft-owned Bethesda Softworks, is also launching on PS5 and PC.
In recent weeks, we’ve also heard rumors that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection will come to the Nintendo Switch 2 ads well as PS5. There has also been chatter about Hellblade 2, Age of Mythology, Gears of War 1 Ultimate Edition, and Starfield making the jump to PS5.
Microsoft hasn’t officially announced plans for any of these titles to come to the competitor platform, but Spencer was also recently asked specifically about Starfield.
When asked by Destin Legarie via his Patreon if “you could solidify that Starfield is staying put [on Xbox] for the time being?”, Spence responded: “No.”
“There’s no specific game that I would… This goes back to my redline answer, there’s no reason for me to put a ring fence around any game and say this game will not go to a place that it will find players where we would have business success for us,” Spencer said.
“What we find is we’re able to drive a better business that allows us to invest in a great game lineup that you saw, and that’s our strategy,” he continued. “Game pass is an important component to playing games on our platform, but to keep games off other platforms, that’s not a path for us.”
Released in 2023, Starfield is an action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. When the game was first announced in 2018, it was revealed as a multiplatform title. However, when Microsoft acquired Bethesda in 2020, the game became an Xbox console exclusive.
Starfield was met with mostly favorable reviews and felt like a commercial hit for Xbox. With over six million players a day after release, it was crowned as Bethesda’s biggest launch title. While the number of players have dropped drastically since then, it remains one of Xbox’s signature titles.
