Microsoft is successful in the PlayStation Store, as the current charts make clear. The Xbox company grabbed several spots in the current top 25.
Numerous rumors emerged earlier this year, including claims that Microsoft was becoming a multiplatform publisher and exiting the console business.
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While another Hardware is officially planned and is supposed to make the “biggest technological leap”, the role as a multiplatform publisher has basically been consolidated for a long time.
Microsoft's growing presence in the PlayStation Store
All it takes is one look at the PlayStation Store to see Microsoft's growing role on external platforms. Several games that are owned by Redmond after the wave of takeovers are among the best-selling games on PlayStation consoles.
It is the rule that Activision's “Call of Duty” is at the forefront. Accordingly, “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” is currently number 3 among the best-selling games in the PS Store. Several games from Redmond or the acquired studios and publishers follow, including “Fallout 4” and “Grounded”.
Overall, Microsoft is in the top 25 of the currently most successful games or game components seven times, making it more often than Sony itself.
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The current top 25 in the PlayStation Store:
- EA Sports FC 24
- Fortnite
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Grand Theft Auto 5
- Helldivers 2
- Overwatch 2 – Season 10
- Fallout 4
- Grounded
- Sea of Thieves
- WWE 2K24
- Train Sim World 4
- NBA 2K24
- Minecraft
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Dragon's Dogma 2
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Roblox
- Genshin Impact
- Stellar Blade
- Destiny 2
- Was Thunder
- Apex Legends
- Fallout 76
- Final Fantasy 16
- Red Dead Redemption 2
Please note: “Destiny 2” and “Oberwatch 2” are not the full games, but on the one hand about the upgrade in the Bungie game and the new season in the case of the Blizzard title. They are listed at 25 cents each. There are also several free-to-play games.
The current top 25 also only represents a snapshot and the games from Microsoft or the acquired publishers that are represented will not be at the top in the long term.
“Grounded” came, for example just on the market. “Sea of Thieves” is about to be published. And the “Fallout” games benefit from hype around Amazon’s “Fallout” series on Prime as well as a discount. Season 10 of “Overwatch” also started this week.
Biggest hardware leap in the new generation
The charts also make it clear why Microsoft is increasingly turning to competing platforms and publishing the once exclusive games for PS5 and Co: PlayStation and Nintendo have a significantly larger install base and offer significantly more sales potential than their own platform.
On the subject:
Ultimately, the question remains what Xbox President Sarah Bond means when she speaks of the “biggest technological leap in a generation” when it comes to the next generation. It sounds not after a hardware, which is just a more powerful console. From Hardware paradigm shift was the talk.
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