PS5 is getting two more Xbox exclusive games this year

Microsoft has announced adjacent much Xbox games are coming to PlayStation 5 successful 2025, and apt Nintendo Switch 2.

After a hesitant commencement to their multiformat strategy successful 2024, Microsoft present seems to beryllium doubling down connected its efforts to enactment the PlayStation 5, insisting that determination are ‘no reddish lines’ erstwhile it comes to what games could beryllium brought over.

Microsoft has already confirmed Indiana Jones And The Great Circle and Forza Horizon 5 volition merchandise connected PlayStation 5 this year, portion different archetypal enactment titles similar Doom: The Dark Ages and The Outer Worlds 2 volition motorboat connected Sony’s console alongside the Xbox Series X/S version.

Less than a week aft Forza Horizon 5’s PlayStation 5 announcement, Xbox has announced 2 much archetypal enactment games for Sony’s console – and it’s large quality for strategy fans. 

Here is what you request to know.

New Xbox games coming to PS5

Age Of Mythology: Retold and Age Of Empires 2: Definitive Edition are some coming to PlayStation 5 this year. The former, which is simply a remastered mentation of 2002’s archetypal Age Of Mythology, volition travel to the console connected March 4, portion the second is slated simply for ‘spring’. 

The accomplishment of Age Of Mythology: Retold connected Sony’s console coincides with the motorboat of a caller Immortal Pillars expansion, which includes a Chinese pantheon, a run inspired by Chinese mythology, and 7 caller maps.

This enlargement arrives connected PC and Xbox Series X/S connected the aforesaid time arsenic the PlayStation 5 version, with cross-play support. All aboriginal updates volition rotation retired crossed each platforms simultaneously pursuing this date. 

Age Of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, a remaster of the 1999 archetypal crippled with improved visuals and each erstwhile DLC, volition besides motorboat connected PlayStation 5 with a caller enlargement – though developer World’s Edge is keeping details nether wraps until spring. 

As for Age Of Empires 4 players, Microsoft has announced 2 caller expansions for 2025. The first, Knights Of Cross And Rose, volition motorboat successful the spring, and includes a caller solo mode and the quality to ‘lead 2 well-known armies inspired by history’. There are nary details connected the 2nd expansion, but it volition partially absorption connected ‘shorter and repeatable experiences’. 

The beingness of these ports suggest Age Of Mythology: Retold and Age Of Empires 2: Definitive Edition could beryllium successful the pipeline for Nintendo’s Switch 2 arsenic good – particularly arsenic they would some showcase the console’s mouse-like functionality.

Microsoft has confirmed Xbox games are coming to Nintendo’s adjacent console, but hasn’t named immoderate existent titles yet. It seems wide that Nintendo has told 3rd enactment publishers not to marque immoderate announcements until the Nintendo Direct successful April.

Beyond these titles, rumours suggest Microsoft is readying to merchandise a batch much Xbox games connected different platforms this year, including Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

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