Helldivers 2 proved this year that there is still room in the video game industry for new online multiplayer games to succeed, studios just need to get a little more inventive. Helldivers' success is made even more impressive by it being locked to PlayStation and PC with no Xbox availability in sight. The sequel might find its way to Xbox one day though, and Arrowhead's boss has shed some light on what needs to happen to get Helldivers on PlayStation's rival platform.
Arrowhead's community manager Thomas "Twinbeard" Petersson was asked about a potential Xbox port on the Helldivers 2 Discord. Twinbeard confirmed that Arrowhead would love Helldivers 2 to be on Xbox, but it's up to those at the very top of the Xbox and PlayStation trees to make that happen.
It's not up to us but to Sony and Phil [Spencer] to duke out, but hypothetically speaking, if both partners think it would benefit them from a financial/brand standpoint, it could. If Sony believes it won't though, it won't.
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