X Helldivers 2 dev says Xbox release is possible, but Sony makes the call

What you need to know

  • Helldivers 2 is a third-person co-op shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios that released on Windows PC and PS5 in February.
  • The game quickly became a massive hit shortly after its launch, with fans falling in love with the game’s chaotic action and hilarious Starship Troopers-inspired satire. Unsurprisingly, many Xbox users have been asking for a port of the game.
  • However, Helldivers 2 is published by Sony and is a PlayStation console exclusive, so whether the game eventually gets an Xbox version or not is up to Sony.
  • Arrowhead community manager Thomas “Twinbeard” Petersson explained this on the official Helldivers 2 Discord server on Wednesday morning, noting that Sony might bring the game to Xbox “if both partners think it would benefit them from a financial/brand standpoint.”
  • An Xbox release could help raise Helldivers 2’s player count higher, and would also mean lots of extra profit. However, Sony has to weigh the value of this against the game’s ability to help sell PS5 hardware.

Arrowhead Game Studios’ chaotic co-op shooter Helldivers 2 rapidly became a colossal hit and one of the best PC games when it launched on Windows PC and PS5 in February, with players falling in love with the game’s high-octane action as well as its hilarious Starship Troopers-style satire. It’s not surprising, then, that Xbox users have been clamoring for a release on Microsoft’s consoles since its release — but since it’s a PlayStation console exclusive, it’s ultimately up to Sony to greenlight an Xbox version, which is what Arrowhead has told fans throughout 2024.

The studio’s community manager Thomas “Twinbeard” Petersson reiterated this to players in a statement on Wednesday morning, though he included some additional context that goes over why the PlayStation maker might eventually agree to bring Helldivers 2 to its rival console.

“Who says it couldn’t? It’s not up to us but to Sony and Phil to duke out, but hypothetically speaking, if both partners think it would benefit them from a financial/brand standpoint, it could. If Sony believes it won’t though, it won’t,” Petersson wrote in reply to someone asking about an Xbox port in the official Helldivers 2 Discord server.

If Helldivers 2 came to Xbox, I’m sure tons of its users would enlist in the fight for Super Earth. (Image credit: PlayStation Studios)

Ultimately, this really isn’t anything that we didn’t already know, though Petersson’s comment reminds me of the reasons why Microsoft and Xbox brought Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded, and Sea of Thieves to PlayStation earlier this year. At the time, Xbox head and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer explained that the former two were smaller titles that were no longer selling much, while the latter pair are live-service “community” games that benefit from having as many players as possible.

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