The huge, widespread success that Helldivers 2 noticed within the months following its launch ensured that it could finish 2024 as one of many 12 months’s largest games- however in fact, as a PlayStation-published title, there are numerous 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 specifically has an enormous built-in viewers for precisely this type of recreation.
Being a PlayStation recreation, you’d assume that there’s no probability Helldivers 2 would ever launch for Xbox, however apparently sufficient, developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios’ group supervisor Thomas Petersson (a.okay.a. Twinbeard) doesn’t appear to assume so. In a message within the recreation’s official Discord server, Petersson lately acknowledged 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 assume it could profit them from a monetary/model standpoint, it may. If Sony believes it gained’t although, it gained’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 out there on Xbox Collection X/S.
Apparently sufficient, it was claimed earlier this 12 months that Sony was in “very, very early preliminary discussions” about the potential for bringing Helldivers 2 to Xbox. Learn extra on that by way of right here.