[STEAM][PRESS]After Rare's Sea of Thieves Tops the PS5 Sales Chart, What's the Next Xbox Game to Go Multiplatform?

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’s decision to release some of its Xbox games on rival console the PlayStation 5 appears to be paying off, with Rare’s pirate adventure

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topping Sony's sales chart.

In a post on the

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, Sony revealed that Sea of Thieves was April’s most-downloaded PS5 game from the PlayStation Store in the EU, ahead of the likes of GTA 5 and Helldivers 2, and the third most-downloaded game in the U.S. Given Sony’s download chart does not include free-to-play games such as Fortnite, we can say Sea of Thieves was the best-selling PS5 game on the PlayStation Store in April, and right up there in the U.S.

There’s more good news for

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’s controversial multi-platform push. Obsidian’s

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also features highly in both the EU and the U.S. Elsewhere, Bethesda’s

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tops the PlayStation 4 chart for April in both the EU and the U.S. Fallout 4 also makes the EU top 10 PS5 list off the back of its recently released

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. Fallout 4’s newfound success is of course fueled by the breakout hit

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, but steep discounts will have helped, too.

And let’s not forget Activision’s

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is also an Xbox game, now

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owns Activision Blizzard. Overall, four of the top 10 games in Europe are Xbox games: Sea of Thieves, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Grounded and Fallout 4.

The success of Sea of Thieves on PS5 in particular may vindicate

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, a decision that sparked much debate within the Xbox core fanbase. It seems likely

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will release more of its Xbox games on PS5 and, potentially, the Nintendo Switch and its successor console. The question now is, which games are next?

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has so-far used games released over a year ago for its multi-platform push, as opposed to brand new games. With that in mind, perhaps one of the Forza games will speed onto PS5.

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is heavily rumored to be ready to announce the next mainline Gears of War game, as well as a Gears collection. Could Gears Roadie Run onto PS5, too?

The most dramatic move would be to bring Halo to PlayStation. But would

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actually go through with it? As former Xbox boss Peter Moore recently told IGN,

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. Perhaps we’ll find out during

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’s Xbox showcase event in June.

All this comes amid devastating cuts across

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’s gaming business, and after

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. In a recent interview,

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the closures were about ensuring the Xbox business ******** healthy for the long-term during what she called “this moment of transition.”

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at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld.

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