Xbox is selling a lot of games on PlayStation

This comes as Xbox just announced another multiplatform remaster with the original Gears of War, and ahead of the launch of Doom: The Dark Ages next week. What started as a trickle of Xbox games on the PS5 has turned into a flood. This, of course, is a great thing for players, with major game releases available on more platforms. But it’s also part of a slow and steady shift for the platform holders, which once heavily relied on exclusives as a means to move hardware. That’s still largely the case for Nintendo — don’t expect to see Mario Kart World anywhere but the Switch 2 — but Microsoft and Sony have been steadily pushing in another direction. While Sony has yet to release a first-party game on a rival console, it has made the PC a major part of its current strategy, with notable releases like Spider-Man 2 and soon The Last of Us Part II launching on PC after their PlayStation debuts. Part of the goal, according to Sony, is to use these PC games to eventually lure players back to ... Read full article.