Tag: Xbox
News You Can Buy a Fully-Fledged PS5 for the Same Price as a Less Powerful Xbox Series S Right Now
A no brainer
There was a lot of hand-wringing at the start of the generation about the lower-powered Xbox Series S and its potential impact on the PS5. For many armchair analysts at the time, Microsoft had stumbled upon a masterstroke: its more affordable next-gen hardware would help get consumers through the door, and paired with the seemingly...
News Xbox Partner Preview Officially Confirmed for 20th November, Includes 'Brand New Reveals'
Will be worth a watch for PS5 users
It feels a little odd to be talking about a potential Xbox Partner Showcase here on Push Square, but with the company releasing pretty much all its games on PS5 nowadays, it only seems right. Anyway, yes, it sounds as though Microsoft is planning an Xbox presentation in the very near future. That's according to...
Talking Point If Xbox Drops the Cost, Would You Be Happy Still Paying for PS6 Multiplayer?
Pay to play
Rumour has it that, with Microsoft's upcoming Xbox hardware, the company plans to drop the requirement to pay for access to online multiplayer. If that really is the case, Sony's PS6 could be the only next-generation console still charging for the privilege. Obviously we won't know for certain whether this will happen until it happens,...
News 'We Want to Be Everywhere, on Every Platform': Microsoft CEO Once Again Commits to PS5
"The best way to innovate is to have good margins"
Microsoft has, for the umpteenth time, committed to a multiformat future. In an interview with TBPN, as transcribed by Game File, CEO Satya Nadella spoke for several minutes about his company’s gaming business without once saying the word ‘Xbox’. He pointed out that, following the firm’s...
News Xbox Boss Believes Sony's Strategy of Console Exclusives Is 'Antiquated'
"The biggest games in the world are available everywhere"
Xbox fans against the organisation’s multiformat strategy may want to close their eyes now, as boss Sarah Bond is signalling her company has no plans to explore exclusivity again. In an interview with Mashable, she pointed out that all of the biggest games in the world are available...
News Sony Game Helldivers 2 Is Proving a Monstrous Success on Xbox
Hey big seller
Do you remember when we reported August’s USA sales charts? Helldivers 2 was missing from the Xbox charts, which we immediately posited as an error. Analyst Mat Piscatella, who publishes the data, said he’d investigate – and here we are. The third-person shooter is a massive success on Microsoft’s machine. So,
"Dominant firms become too-big-to-care"
Everything that ex-FTC chair Lina Khan said would happen is happening. Those of you who followed the drama around Microsoft’s unprecedented near-$70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard will recall Khan was one of the few voices against the buyout. She argued, at the time, that consolidation would...
News Even More Xbox Price Increases Make PS5 Look Like a Good Deal
$20, $50, and $70 increases for Xbox consoles
More expensive than it was at the launch, the price of a PS5 has been heavily affected by the current climate and tariffs imposed by the USA government. It now costs $550 for a base unit with a disc drive, but hey, it could be worse — what if it was $650? That's apparently the new price of an Xbox...
News Even More Ex-Xbox Executives Speak Out About 'Tension' of Game Pass
"I saw short sighted decision making"
If there’s anyone best placed to speak on the impact of Xbox Game Pass, it’s ex-Bethesda boss Pete Hines, who left the publisher in 2023. Hines enjoyed a wildly successful 24 years at the company, and so he saw first-hand the consequences of Microsoft’s acquisition. And while he admitted that he’s been...
News Sony's Helldivers 2 on Xbox Gamble Is Absolutely Paying Off
Now the platform's "Top Paid" game
As Forza Horizon 5's sales on PS5 justify Microsoft's multi-platform efforts, Sony's decision to put Helldivers 2 on Xbox Series X|S is also looking to be a worthwhile success. Just one week after release, the port is considered the "top paid game" on the platform and is in first place on the "best seller" list...
News Helldivers 2 Xbox Sales Estimates Predict a Helluva Start for Sony's Live Service
Will it change PlayStation's thinking?
We reported recently how the late port of Final Fantasy 16 – which wasn’t included in Xbox Game Pass – had flopped on the Microsoft machine, so all eyes have been on Helldivers 2 to see whether it would resonate on the green machine. Aside from MLB The Show, which is not technically publ
News Meltdowns on Social Media As Sony Markets Its Upcoming Xbox Port
"Pack it up, console warriors"
If you’ve happened to visit the cesspit that is X (or Twitter) this weekend, then you’ll have seen the meltdowns over Sony’s decision to market one of its upcoming games. The official PlayStation.com page for Helldivers 2 has now been updated to reference the release on Microsoft’s machine, which will be...
News Xbox Game Pass May Make Devs 'Wage Slaves', Says Ex-PlayStation Exec
"I'm not a fan of the Netflix of gaming"
A sprawling – and quite insightful – article about the current state of the games industry has been published by GamesIndustry.biz, featuring interviews with the likes of Circana’s Mat Piscatella. But it’s former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden’s thoughts that are going viral, as he’s chimed...
News PlayStation the Driving Force Behind Xbox's Helldivers 2 Port
"It was all PlayStation"
PlayStation management has been credited as the ones pushing to get Helldivers 2 on Xbox Series X|S, rather than the lead developers within Arrowhead Studios. In response to fans on Discord (via Windows Central), the developer's CEO Shams Jorjani said any praise for making the Helldivers 2 port onto Xbox Series X|S a...
News Innocuous Days Gone Tweet Attracts Xbox Fans Like Flies to Slaughtered Freakers
"Is it really happening?"
It’s happening again, folks! A cryptic post from Sony first-party developer Bend Studio has brought out a bunch of bad actors within the Xbox community, all begging for a port of the supposedly “Xbox coded” open world game, Days Gone. As spotted by our friends at
Rumour Sony to Put More First-Party PS5 Games on Xbox
"Would anyone care?"
Following on from the confirmation of a Xbox Series X|S version for Helldivers 2 and the debate surrounding a Sony job listing suggesting the company has multi-platform plans, a reliable insider has claimed more first-party PS5 games are indeed on their way to Xbox. NateTheHate, who has developed a reliable track record over...
"The line's pointing up and to the right"
Earlier this month, Microsoft cut an astronomical 9,000 jobs across its entire business, with its Xbox division struck particularly hard. This led to the cancellation of multiple in-development projects, including The Initiative’s Perfect Dark and Rare’s Everwild, all of which would have likely released...
News Helldivers 2 Xbox Announcement Prompts Avalanche of Spider-Man Port Begging
Green goblins
If you have an active interest in PS5 and haven’t abandoned X (or Twitter) yet, then you’ll no doubt have found yourself inundated with an avalanche of Marvel’s Spider-Man port begging this week. In the aftermath of Helldivers 2’s announcemen
News Stolen PS1 WipEout Games Axed from the Xbox Store
Wiped out
A new release on the Xbox Series X|S consoles this week has been yanked from sale, after it appeared to infringe on Sony’s software. The shameless Anti-Gravity Racing WipEout seemed to include slightly edited emulated versions of the original WipEout and its successor WipEout 3: Special Edition, with minor texture changes and button...
News Xbox's Promising MMORPG Sounds Like the Most Baffling Cancellation
Xbox execs "blown away by an upcoming game. Then they cancelled it."
Screenshot taken from The Elder Scrolls Online. As the dust settles on a devastating week of Microsoft layoffs and Xbox game cancellations, those in the know are now starting to share what they heard about the scrapped projects. The decision to cancel Everwild and Perfect Dark...
News PlayStation Is Bringing Helldivers 2 to Xbox, Out on 26th August
Port to Xbox Series X|S confirmed
Sony and Arrowhead Studios have revealed that they're porting their incredibly popular co-op game Helldivers 2 to Xbox Series X|S, due for release on 26th August 2025. This is a full version of Helldivers 2, costing $40, and is published by PlayStation Publishing on Xbox Series X|S. It's now available to pre-order...
News Mass Xbox Layoffs Begin, Everwild and Perfect Dark Both Cancelled
Perfect Dark developer The Initiative shut down
The significant layoffs affecting the Xbox division — first reported earlier this week — have now begun, says Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier. In a fresh ar
News You Can Now Launch First-Party PlayStation Games Through the Xbox PC App
And everyone's talking about it
In a social media environment which encourages being as antagonistic as possible, we suppose it was only a matter of time before a video of a first-party PlayStation game launching directly from Xbox’s new PC app went viral. For those of you who haven’t been following the news, Microsoft has been worked on an...
"There are multiple participants who drive the game industry"
Sony’s said that competition from rival console manufacturers drives it to innovate, although it’s not overly worried about Xbox’s potential exit from the business. PlayStation boss Hideaki Nishino was asked rather bluntly during an investors meeting whether he believes it’ll be...
News Yep, PlayStation's PC Games Will Be Playable on Xbox's New Handheld System
Everything on everything
You probably saw this over the weekend, but Microsoft has now formally announced its upcoming handheld device, the ROG Xbox Ally. Made in partnership with Asus, the machine is essentially a handheld PC running Windows, and it will allow you to play your Xbox library natively, via the cloud, or remote play. What's more,...
News Final Fantasy 16 Is No Longer a PS5 Console Exclusive, Gets Superb Artwork to Celebrate
Out now on Xbox
In case you didn't hear, Final Fantasy 16 is no longer a PS5 console exclusive. As was announced during the Xbox Games Showcase, the big-budget action RPG is now available on Xbox Series X|S as well, having already released for PC back in September of last year. You may recall that Sony had actually helped out with the development...
News PS5's Share of Active US Players Is Slowly Beginning to Pummel Xbox
Well on top
While those of you who live in Europe and Asia will know Xbox has been little more than a footnote for quite some time, USA has remained somewhat of a battleground for Sony. We know from Circana data that PS5 tends to sell the most units on a monthly basis, but it’s still been somewhat competitive, with Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo...
News Xbox Is Stepping Up Its Backwards Compatibility Efforts Again, to the Envy of PS5 Fans
Blasting from the past
Where Microsoft has stumbled, Sony's got a lot of things right over the last couple of console generations — but one area where PlayStation fans would love to see an improvement is backwards compatibility. Funnily enough, backwards compatibility and general game preservation are something that Xbox has been excelling at for...
News PS5 Pro Is No Longer the Most Expensive Console You Can Buy
For now, anyway
PS5 Pro is no longer the most expensive console you can buy. It’s unclear how long we’ll be able to say that, because Sony has been no stranger to bumping the price of its products this generation. But as we publish this, the supercharged system has been usurped by the 2TB Xbox Series X Galaxy Black. In the
News Xbox Now Selling PS5 Games for $80, Joins Switch 2 in Price Increase
Consoles, accessories also go up in cost
Microsoft has announced it's raising the prices of all its Xbox Series X|S consoles, accessories, and games, effective as of today. Most importantly for PS5 owners, the Xbox games Microsoft ports to Sony's current-gen console will now cost $80 going forward. Previously ported games, like Indiana Jones and...
News Xbox Is Absolutely Dominating PS5's Pre-Order Charts
It's a takeover
April is shaping up to be a big month for Xbox – and it’s mostly because of PS5. It looks like Sony stalwarts are salivating at the prospect of Forza Horizon 5 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, because both titles have rocketed to the top of the PS Store’s pre-order charts. MachineGames’ movie spin-off occupies the...
News Fans Unsure Whether Sony Will Block PS5 Games on Xbox's Rumoured PC Hardware
The console war is changing
If the rumours are to be believed, the next Xbox is not a console – at least, not in the traditional sense. Various reports from reliable websites such as Windows Central and The Verge have hinted that Microsoft’s future hardware plans include a successor to the Xbox Series X|S which functions similarly to a PC...
News After Gobbling Two Publishers, Now Xbox Has Been Sniffing Around Ubisoft's IP
According to a disgruntled shareholder
Microsoft has spent close to $100 billion on historically third-party publishers and developers over the past few years, but now it’s been sniffing around Ubisoft’s intellectual property as well. A disgruntled shareholder of the embattled French firm recently accused the company of failing to disclose...
News Could the Next Xbox Get a Head Start on PS6?
Rumourmonger claims devkits are already out
A rumour doing the rounds on social media today claims the next Call of Duty is currently in development at Infinity Ward, and will release in 2026 on various platforms – including a supposed next-gen Xbox. The rumourmonger, TheGhostofNoHope, is said to be well-connected when it comes to the...
Rumour Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Will Launch on PS5 During Xbox's Summer Showcase
Shadow drop incoming?
There's no smoke without fire, and it seems the blaze is getting bigger. We're now hearing rumours about the unannounced Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, which will allegedly be simultaneously announced and released in June. This comes from known leaker eXtas1s, speaking in a recent YouTube video. According to eXstas1s, Tony...
Rumour Xbox's Fable, Killer Instinct, More to Join Forza Horizon 5 on PS5
Just a matter of time?
It seems the floodgates may have well and truly opened, as a new report has claimed knowledge of even more Xbox first-party games heading to rival platforms, including PS5. Spanish site Vandal recently posted a story about Microsoft's multi-platform strategy, and according to its sources, Killer Instinct and St
News Xbox Was December's Biggest Publisher, and 64% of Its Sales Were on PS5, PS4
Your PlayStation is an Xbox
For the month of December, Xbox was the biggest video games publisher in the world — according to a recent number-crunching analysis. The data comes from Ampere, which states that $465 million was spent on games owned and published by Microsoft, making it the largest publisher of them all last month. This shouldn't...
News Xbox Boss Wants to Beat PS6 on Hardware Capabilities, Not Necessarily Games
"Let’s build innovative hardware that people want to use to play"
The gap between the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 is growing dramatically, and there’s a good chance it’ll get even bigger in 2025. Microsoft, in response, has effectively ripped off the band aid and is in the process of rebranding as a third-party publisher. Last week, boss
News This New Xbox Controller Looks Exactly Like a PS5 Pad
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
It won’t surprise you to learn we’ve always erred on the symmetrical sticks side of the fence, and while we won’t judge anyone for preferring asymmetrical sticks, we can confirm there’s a special place in hell reserved specifically for you. Seriously, though, with PlayStation being the faraway...
News No Xbox Games Are Off the Table for Release on PS5, Says Phil Spencer
No "red lines"
Ever since Xbox's initial steps into multiplatform releases, fans have been wondering where the company will draw the line. Earlier this year, a quartet of previously Xbox-exclusive titles made their way to PS5 and PS4 (Sea of Thieves, Pentiment, Grounded, and Hi-Fi Rush), and with a new comment from top exec Phil Spencer, it sounds...
News Death Stranding Gets a Surprise Xbox Series X|S Port, Out Now
Kojima Productions now owns the IP
Death Stranding has received an unexpected port to Xbox Series X|S, available now at a sale price of $19.99. This is the Director's Cut version of the game specifically, which first released for PS5 in 2021. Kojima Productions has also shared it now has full ownership of the Death Stranding IP. Given the fact the...
Project Latitude continues
The ongoing will-they-won't-they story surrounding Xbox and its plans to release some of its games on rival platforms continues apace. After some dubious online scuttlebutt, Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, appears to have inadvertently nullified rumours that this strategy is slowing down. A leaker who goes by eXtas1s...
News PS5 May Soon Be Unchallenged by Xbox in Some Regions
Microsoft could be pulling its consoles from some countries
As the sales of Xbox Series X|S continue to collapse, it’s beginning to look like PS5 may have a free run at some markets as Microsoft effectively exits them. While it’s still an evolving story with many mixed messages, it sounds like the Redmond firm will cease shipping consoles to...
Random Xbox Boss Complains About X Button After Being Handed PS5 Pad
He's worried he may Push Square instead
A video clip of Xbox boss Phil Spencer at the Tokyo Game Show has gone viral after he jokingly complained about the position of the b:X button on the DualSense controller. “The b:X button’s in the wrong place,” he laughed. “b:X is supposed to be over there.” He then pointed to the position of the...
News Xbox on Bringing Exclusives to PS5: The Industry Is Changing for All of Us
Spencer continues to talk
Xbox boss Phil Spencer never misses an opportunity to speak publicly, and at Gamescom today he’s been chatting as part of an official livestream. Asked specifically about his company’s decision to bring Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to PS5,
Rumour Xbox to Announce a 'Big' Game Coming to PS5 at Gamescom
Might be Forza Horizon 5
A big gaming event is just around the corner, and as usual, rumours have begun appearing from every direction. The latest scuttlebutt doing the rounds online starts with Shinobi602, a notable source currently working at Keywords Studios; apparently, Xbox will reveal the next of its first-party titles going multiplatform...
News 'PlayStation's Blessed with Marketing Budgets We're Not Able to Enjoy,' Xbox Bigwig Bemoans
Marketing man doesn't mince his words
Microsoft is in a dire position in Europe, with the latest round of data suggesting PS5 is outselling the Xbox Series X|S by a ratio of almost 10:1 on the continent. One of the reasons for that enormous discrepancy all comes down to brand awareness, and Sony has spent the past 30 years carefully and effectively...
News Xbox Really Wasn't Happy with PlayStation's Call of Duty Marketing Deal
Phil Spencer says Microsoft won't do "slimy platform things"
Microsoft has spent $69 billion on Activision Blizzard, so now it calls the shots when it comes to juggernaut franchise, Call of Duty. Of course, previously, starting with Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 in 2015, Sony had marketing dibs on the series, which meant it could advertise annual...
News Xbox Explains Why It Shuttered Beloved Hi-Fi Rush Developer
"I have to run a sustainable business"
Hi-Fi Rush released on PS5 earlier this year to the same kind of critical acclaim it had already received on Xbox Series X|S and PC – then Microsoft decided to unceremoniously shut the studio down. Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who has been curiously quiet in the aftermath of the closure, piped up during an IGN...
News Xbox Bigwig Confirms Many More Microsoft Games Are Coming to PS5
"You are going to see more of our games on more platforms"
Phil Spencer, the talkative head honcho of Xbox, has confirmed his company will be bringing more of its games to other platforms, like PS5. After its bemusing business meeting earlier in the year, the executive would only officially commit to four ports, all of which are already available:...
