The large, widespread success that Helldivers 2 noticed within the months following its launch ensured that it might finish 2024 as one of many 12 months’s greatest games- however after all, as a PlayStation-published title, there are numerous on rival platforms who haven’t been in a position to play the sport. And given the sport’s nature as a multiplayer shooter, it’s protected to imagine that Xbox particularly has a large built-in viewers for precisely this kind of sport.
Being a PlayStation sport, you’d suppose that there’s no likelihood Helldivers 2 would ever launch for Xbox, however apparently sufficient, developer Arrowhead Sport Studios’ neighborhood supervisor Thomas Petersson (a.ok.a. Twinbeard) doesn’t appear to suppose so. In a message within the sport’s official Discord server, Petersson lately acknowledged that Helldivers 2 might hypothetically launch for Xbox if Sony and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer can come to a mutually helpful settlement.
“Who says it couldn’t?” Petersson wrote. “It’s lower than us, however to Sony and Phil to duke out, however hypothetically talking, if each companions suppose it might profit them from a monetary/model standpoint, it might. If Sony believes it received’t although, it received’t.”
This isn’t the primary time the subject of Helldivers 2 on Xbox has been broached publicly. Shortly following its launch, the aforementioned Phil Spencer spoke about how he noticed no profit within the co-op shooter not being obtainable on Xbox Collection X/S.
Apparently sufficient, it was claimed earlier this 12 months that Sony was in “very, very early preliminary discussions” about the potential of bringing Helldivers 2 to Xbox. Learn extra on that by way of right here.
