Sony-Published Helldivers 2 Gets Shock Release Date on Xbox Series X and S

Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox Series X and S adjacent period successful a daze announcement that sees Sony people a crippled connected PlayStation's rival consoles.

Arrowhead’s explosive co-op third-person shooter launches connected Xbox connected August 26, 2025, a livestream confirmed. Remarkably, that's the aforesaid time Microsoft releases Gears of War: Reloaded connected PlayStation 5.

In a station connected Xbox Wire, Helldivers 2 Game Director Mikael Eriksson commented connected what this motorboat means to the studio.

“We cognize gamers person been asking for this for immoderate clip and we are truthful excited to bring much Helldivers into our game," helium said. "We person truthful overmuch much successful store for the aboriginal months and years – and the much players we person the much stories we tin tell! The combat for Super Earth has lone conscionable begun.”

Crossplay crossed each platforms is confirmed, which means PC, PlayStation, and Xbox players volition beryllium capable to play together.

Helldivers 2 launched connected PC and PS5 successful February 2024 and was a uncommon unrecorded work smash deed for Sony. It is the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios crippled of each time, selling an unthinkable 12 cardinal copies successful 12 weeks.

While subordinate numbers connected Steam, which Valve makes public, stay steadfast a year-and-a-half connected from the record-breaking launch, the Xbox merchandise volition no-doubt boost the subordinate excavation adjacent further.

Still, Helldivers 2's merchandise connected Xbox comes arsenic a large surprise. Sony, typically, does not merchandise PlayStation Studios games connected Xbox, preferring alternatively to motorboat connected PlayStation consoles lone and, successful an expanding fig of cases, PC. MLB The Show, developed by Sony's San Diego Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, is an objection and does motorboat connected Xbox, albiet nether the MLB banner. Sony besides precocious released LEGO Horizon Adventures connected Nintendo Switch, PS5, and PC.

Clearly, the erstwhile impenetrable walls of console exclusivity are coming down. Microsoft, which lone yesterday made sweeping cuts to its gaming concern arsenic portion of an eye-watering circular of layoffs affecting implicit 9,000 staff, is all-in connected PlayStation. The aforementioned Gears of War: Reloaded marks the erstwhile Xbox-exclusive series' debut connected PlayStation, Hellblade 2 hits PS5 successful August, and Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 releases connected Sony's console successful October.

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