In the last year, Xbox has undergone some remarkable changes. The protracted rivalry with PlayStation that underpinned a decade-and-a-half of console exclusives appears to be coming to an end, as Xbox is now actively porting games to PlayStation 5.
It began with Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment and Sea of Thieves, and continued with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Oblivion Remastered, and Forza Horizon 5. The latter is actually PlayStation 5's best-selling game of 2025 so far, an event I didn't anticipate happening so soon after Microsoft's absurdly expensive acquisition of Activision-Blizzard in 2022.
Xbox has yet to release anything on the Nintendo Switch 2, but reports have all but confirmed that ports are planned in the near future. Pentiment was released on the original Switch last year, meaning it's also available on the Switch 2.
According to a recent report from The Game Business, Xbox is preparing to announce more PlayStation 5 ports "in the coming weeks." There are no specifics as to which games will be arriving on PlayStation, but we can speculate on some of the likely candidates.
Avowed and South of Midnight are two games already rumoured to be getting...
