The huge, widespread success that Helldivers 2 noticed within the months following its launch ensured that it will finish 2024 as one of many yr’s greatest games- however after all, as a PlayStation-published title, there are a lot of 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 type of recreation.
Being a PlayStation recreation, you’d suppose that there’s no likelihood Helldivers 2 would ever launch for Xbox, however apparently sufficient, developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios’ neighborhood supervisor Thomas Petersson (a.ok.a. Twinbeard) doesn’t appear to suppose so. In a message within the recreation’s official Discord server, Petersson not too long ago said that Helldivers 2 may 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 less than us, however to Sony and Phil to duke out, however hypothetically talking, if each companions suppose it will profit them from a monetary/model standpoint, it may. 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 accessible on Xbox Collection X/S.
Apparently sufficient, it was claimed earlier this yr that Sony was in “very, very early preliminary discussions” about the potential of bringing Helldivers 2 to Xbox. Learn extra on that via right here.
