Sea of Thieves, initially launched again in 2018 and as soon as one among Xbox’s largest exclusives, made its strategy to PlayStation 5 earlier this yr and has since gone on to turn into the best-selling sport on the platform for the month of Might.
In response to a brand new weblog put up on the PlayStation web site, Sea of Thieves was essentially the most downloaded sport on the PlayStation 5 within the US, Canada, and Europe final month. It managed to outsell the likes of Grand Theft Auto V, Madden NFL 24, Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare III, Helldivers 2, and plenty of extra.
As for PlayStation 4 video games, Minecraft as soon as once more topped the record within the US, Canada, and Europe, beating out the likes of Crimson Useless Redemption 2, A Method Out, and even Fallout 4. The latter of which just lately discovered a brand new lease on life due to the vastly profitable TV adaptation on Amazon Prime.
Does Sea Of Thieves’ Success Imply There’s Extra To Come?
Earlier this yr, after months of rumours, leaks, and hypothesis, Microsoft formally confirmed that a number of Xbox exclusives can be making their strategy to different platforms such because the Nintendo Change and PlayStation 5. The primary batch of video games can be Pentiment and Hello-Fi Rush, the latter of which was developed by the now-defunct Tango Gameworks. Pentiment hit PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Change on February twenty second, whereas Hello-Fi Rush was launched for the PlayStation 5 on March nineteenth.
These releases had been then adopted by Grounded on April sixteenth and, lastly, Sea of Thieves on April thirtieth. Microsoft stated it was “excited for extra gamers to expertise these worlds and tales on extra platforms,” so does that imply that we will count on much more Xbox exclusives to make their strategy to PlayStation 4 and 5?
Whereas Sea of Thieves’ enormous success on PlayStation 5 is probably going simply an added bonus for Xbox, studio head Phil Spencer just lately advised IGN (through The Verge) that followers can count on extra first-party titles to go multi-platform. “You’re going to see extra of our video games on extra platforms, and we simply see that as a profit to the franchises that we’re constructing, and we see that from gamers, and the gamers love to have the ability to play,” Spencer stated.
Followers are rightly excited by Spencer’s current feedback and by the success of Sea of Thieves. Over on X (previously Twitter), one person stated, “Cannot watch for extra Xbox video games to reach on PlayStation,” whereas one other joked, “PlayStation gamers loving Xbox video games is a wild stat to see. By no means thought I’d see the day.”
