Xbox Sea Of Thieves Price
Cherrie Patete
Microsoft has now announced that Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded will be ported to PS5 and PS4 consoles, and all are coming out over the coming months. Here's a breakdown of their platforms and release dates:
Upon the announcement, Xbox president Matt Booty said: "At Xbox, we strive to create games that inspire, entertain, and connect players from around the world. As a publisher and platform we are committed to meeting players where they are, by bringing more games, to more people, and on more devices. And at the heart of all we do are our players, and the vibrant communities that they build around the games they love."
Hi-Fi Rush will be up for pre-order on the PS Store from 22nd February 2024, while Sea of Thieves can be wishlisted on the same day. Both the latter and Grounded will support cross-play, allowing users on all systems to play together.
Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he can be found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.
It's kinda insane that the info just gets dropped like this outta the blue like this seems like exactly what they should have announced on the podcast thing a week ago! Excited nonetheless! I can't wait to play hi-fi rush!!
I might end up with Pentiment on the Switch. I'll keep an eye out on the Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 release announcements in future, just in case they need their games to actually sell elsewhere. Elsewhere like, I dont know, PS store ?
Will be getting Hi Fi Rush when it releases, I'm excited for it. I may get Pentiment as well. Seems interesting and I want this initiative to pay off so that MS continues to bring games to PS5/Switch.
@Friendly I think if these were all the games for this calendar year, they'd have spread them out more to improve sales. Releasing them during a just over 2 month period gives the impression that more are coming in the 2nd half of the calendar year (Microsoft's fiscal year ends on June 30th).
I know I've said it before, but this is just the beginning. I don't care what MS says right now. They've seen the writing on the wall, and they're finally realizing that their master plan to buy up publishers and make their games Xbox exclusive is only going to result in those games selling 30% of what they should and it's going to cause them to hemorrhage money essentially. The only way forward, or eventually out, for MS at this point is to sell as many copies of their games on as many platforms as they can. Game Pass has peaked, and they've already lost the most important gen (when people began to seriously invest in digital ecosystems), so really what else can they do? So yeah, we will at least see a Starfield announcement for PS5, among others, by the end of the year, at minimum.
@UltimateOtaku91 It's a lot more single player friendly these days. They recently added the "Safer Seas" mode. you can have the entire server to yourself there or bring a friend or two on your boat. You will be playing against all the PVE content and there is a ton. All the "Tall Tales" which are lore driven puzzle/adventures can be played there now. Now some of the "cooler" content is only to be found on the "High Seas" which involves playing against other crews. You can still play here solo.... but this is absolutely hardcore mode. A solo slooper vs a 4 man galleon is quite the challenge. The rewards are higher on the high seas but so are the risks. Many playstation players are going to absolutely love the Sea of Thieves. Just as many will absolutely hate it. It is a shared sandbox world and the amount of content now is staggering.
Again if you potentially want to see Halo, Gears and maybe Killer Instinct (?) in the future you have to show Microsoft that this is going to be worth their time and effort. If all these games sell like crap I'm sure they'll pull the plug immediately and be like "well this was a giant waste of our time"
Didn't they say its not fully ruled out about star field etc also seen couple things saying sony president talking about multi platform too wonder if it's the start of full exclusive been extinct and becoming all timed exclusives Like a year or 2 then coming to other platforms? If so I hope we ratchet and clanks for Xbox please ? the one game I'm really gutted I can't play ??
@Nyne11Tyme it sounds like Insomniac, and therefore Sony do own the IP for Sunset Overdrive. However Xbox put a clause into the exclusivity that they get first rights to upto 2 sequels and even any remasters.
I'm probably misunderstanding you, but what do you mean by not much competition? From a PlayStation perspective, Pentiment comes out close to FF7 Rebirth. Hi-Fi Rush comes out close to Dragon's Dogma 2, and the last two come out a week either side of Stellar Blade.
I'll nab em all eventually. Grounded is one that my co-op group seem into. Hi-fi is probably at the top for me personally but I don't really know enough about Pentiment aside from it's awesome visuals.
Grounded is amazing especially if you have kids for co op it's pure fun, I finished pentiment twice to see different choices n consequences, amazing game with well written story and characters, Obsidian seal of quality!
Hi fi was a surprise game for me like the way they shadow dropped it, I don't like games with multiple combos and very fast pace combat but this game has something special when it combines it with the beat! Pure magic, well level design and boss fights, loved the 3d to 2d transformation the game does in some areas! pure fun.
I guess Starfield will be in the next wave of games they'll release because as they say "where there is smoke there is fire"
@HonestHick This is fundamentally where our opinions differ. I don't think the world's richest company consolidating more of the market will ever be a good thing for the industry. No amount of select titles they decide to release elsewhere is going to change my opinion on that.
@Friendly You're kidding yourself if you think they'll only port smaller titles. The Xbox userbase isn't big enough to support big AAA titles, and they now want an ROI. They're merely breaking in Xbox owners with these four games.
@GeminiReign No one is asking why because no cares why. Is irrelevant to me if Microsoft is not making money from GP so they have to try and make money from PlayStation owners, I'll take whatever road gets me to eventually play Halo and Gears on my PlayStation ?
@Juanalf while I agree with others that Starfield and Indy might make the jump to Playstation someday, I just wouldn't get my hopes up about halo, gears or forza. I believe MS won't port those until they are fully committed to 3rd party and accepting the death of their console not to mention the backlash they know they will face from diehard xbots not wanting to share.
I've heard this being touted. I'm not sure I buy the excuse that 1900 positions overlapped but it could be true, either way, had the acquisition not gone through there would have been zero overlapping.
"The good thing is new studios pop up all the time in this industry and those people could get back into something like that and who knows be the next big person at a new studio, or go on to make indie stuff."
@Intr1n5ic they did but after 1-2 days they redid the numbers and Apple was on top again. Those 2 are so close it goes back and forth almost weekly. MS has the advantage of being a software company as it is high profit netting, and yet Apple is so good with hardware an obviously lower profit margin and yet they still take them out. I love it, Apple is king in my house.
I've downloaded and played the trial of Skull and Bones and enjoyed it, but from what I see Sea of Thieves is a better game. Especially when the price tag of Skull and Bones is such a bone for contention for me.
So glad to see platforms opening up and porting games across, I really hope this is the beginning of a trend.
Monster Hunter Stories and SMTV from Nintendo and the above from Xbox platforms respectively.
In this day and age I don't see how having an exclusive helps the industry. With production costs rocketing , surely selling to as big an install base as possible is a better way of recovering costs, as opposed to raising the price of the products?
They have the studios right now than Playstation needs. They can put their games on playstation but keep the moniker 'Xbox is the best place to play' and have the selling point of 'yes you can play our games on PS5 for $70 or you can get them day 1 on game pass'.
Funny how not even a few months ago everybody on here was clamoring doom over consolidation within the console market, yet now using laughing emotes on posts where they make fun of xbox for bringing games to more consoles and people.
I agree Microsoft aren't leaving the console business, I DEFINITELY don't want that, competition is good, but I don't want as many exclusives either, that isn't good for gamers or gaming. Thankfully they seem to be taking a sensible middle line for now. SOME games going multiplatform, and with 40+ studios now they can afford to do this without destroying Xbox as a brand. Sony is doing similar. That is a better future than mass consolidation leading to larger walled gardens.
@MattBoothDev I don't think there is anything wrong with SOME exclusives. Exclusives are important to an extent. But the critical thing that has changed is the number of studios, and franchises, now owned by platform holders.
In the recent past platform holders had 1-10 studios and these would make a few exclusives for that platform. The reality is if you had another system the reality is there was only a small relative number of games and a handful of franchises you would miss out on each generation say Halo, Gears Forza, or Uncharted, God of War, Gran Turismo or Zelda, Mario, Metroid etc.
But with all the buyouts and consolidation - Xbox now has over 40 studios, Sony over 20, with potentially more to come - if ALL those were exclusive it would reach such a mass that gamers would lose out even more. Imagine if Doom, Destiny, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Diablo, COD, THPS, Crash all went single platform on top of the above franshcises, that wouldn't be good for the industry imo.
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