Abstract
- Consistent with Xbox insider Jez Corden, Microsoft considers Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga exclusivity a “mistake”.
- In spite of the primary recreation being a timed PS4 unique, the sequel simplest introduced on Xbox and PC.
- Stories surfaced previous this yr that Microsoft was once bearing in mind a PS5 port, however there is been no phrase as of but.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice at the start introduced as a timed PS4 unique, arriving on Xbox a yr later. However bizzarely, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 did not release on PlayStation day one, and there is been no reliable phrase on whether or not it is going to ever come to the platform.
That is as a result of Xbox got developer Ninja Principle in 2018, folding Hellblade into its exclusives catalogue. On the other hand, this seems to have backfired, as insider Jez Corden claims he “heard [Microsoft] believe Hellblade exclusivity a mistake” (as reported through Push Square).
It is a throwaway tweet, so take it with a grain of salt. However it is value noting that The Verge reported in Might — previous to it even liberating — that Microsoft was once bearing in mind a PS5 port amidst worries over its efficiency.
Hellblade 2 in the long run did not promote smartly, most likely because of a mixture of exclusivity and launching day one on Recreation Move. However even at the subscription carrier, it simplest ranked twelfth, striking it in the back of Fallout 76 (as reported through IGN). Gross sales-wise, it ranked thirty seventh in its unencumber month, making it the twenty first most-played recreation on Xbox Sequence consoles.
Xbox’s Unique Technique Is Obviously Converting
Remaining month, Xbox head Phil Spencer stated that there are not any “crimson strains” round exclusives anymore. Anything else may just release on PS5 going ahead. We are already seeing this with Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle which can release on Sony’s platform subsequent yr.
It was once additionally printed right through The Recreation Awards that The Outer Worlds 2, from developer Obsidian Leisure, can be launching on PS5 subsequent yr. It in reality looks as if, as Corden stated, the age of Xbox exclusives is coming to an in depth.
Following her trials and tribulations in her debut recreation, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 sees the titular protagonist once more need to fight the darkness so as to release others from a tyrannical regime.