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New Platforms, New Players: Four Fan-Favorite Xbox Games Coming to Nintendo Switch and Sony Platforms - Xbox Wire

Today, we announced the four fan-favorite Xbox games coming to Nintendo Switch and Sony platforms this spring. Our studios have drawn on their multi-platform experience to open their worlds to even more players.

news.xbox.com

• Sea of Thieves, the shared world adventure game from Rare, will be coming to PlayStation 5 on April 30 – and will be available to wishlist by PlayStation 5 players starting tomorrow, February 22. Having built a passionate community of more than 35 million players from around the world, the support of cross play for Xbox, PlayStation and PC will allow players to experience epic pirate adventures with friends on more platforms.

I will take any PS5 owner out on my Seinfeld fleet to teach them the game.

If there are three others, we'll sail on my Galleon; Serenity Now.

Two others can sail on my Brig, Summer of George.

If there's only one other, we'll duo on No Sloop For You.

 

[Warnen]

Now Sony players can feel the disappointment the rest of us had to endure.

That said haven’t played in years but man what a good looking waste of a game at launch.

 

[GladiusFrog]

PlayStation players are in for a treat, Best Pirate game ever made!

Rare knows excellent game design. See you on the High Seas.

 

[MisterXDTV]

 

[ManaByte]

I will take any PS5 owner out on my Seinfeld fleet to teach them the game.

If there are three others, we'll sail on my Galleon; Serenity Now.

Two others can sail on my Brig, Summer of George.

If there's only one other, we'll duo on No Sloop For You.

 

[Mr.ODST]

Wonder if they will do a special ship design for Switch and PS players, my ships are decked out in Halo, Ori and Original Xbox gear (if you got a series X/S you got the Original Xbox look for your ship). would be pretty cool for those players

 

[Tsaki]

Skull & Bones got beat up by Helldivers and will get killed by Sea of Thieves. RIP.....

 

[ManaByte]

Wonder if they will do a special ship design for Switch and PS players, my ships are decked out in Halo, Ori and Original Xbox gear (if you got a series X/S you got the Original Xbox look for your ship). would be pretty cool for those players

 

[cash_longfellow]

Full crossplay is cool. I might check this out.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[ManaByte]

Full crossplay is cool. I might check this out.

 

[Beer Baelly]

Announcement overload!

 

[Pelta88]

You know who right now like...

 

[TexMex]

I will take any PS5 owner out on my Seinfeld fleet to teach them the game.

If there are three others, we'll sail on my Galleon; Serenity Now.

Two others can sail on my Brig, Summer of George.

If there's only one other, we'll duo on No Sloop For You.

 

[mejin]

MS surely is rushing with the launchs. More incoming soony.

 

[ManaByte]

Me when I log in on the PS5 version and get 150+ trophies popping:

 

[Mossybrew]

Looking forward to finally playing Sea of Thieves. Grounded looks pretty cool as well. I imagine these will be at a budget price like $ 40 I'm hoping.

 

[MaKTaiL]

Is Sea of Thieves F2P?

 

[Jaybe]

The game had pretty water. That’s the only positive I can give it. Found it boring.

 

[saintjules]

Xbox - Learn how we're bringing Pentiment, Grounded, Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi RUSH to more players

At Xbox, we strive to create games that inspire, entertain, and connect players from around the world. As a publisher and platform we are committed to meeting players where they are, by bringing more games, to more people, and on more devices. And at the heart of all we do are our players, and...

www.neogaf.com

 

[Kilau]

Just played this again with K KellyNole last night after a long break. It’s an amazing experience, don’t skip this game PS players. Still best water in all of gaming too.

 

[GladiusFrog]

Do you think we will be able to transfer our progress to the Sony platform?

If that's the case I'll go from my old rickety PC to PS5 in a heartbeat.

 

[DR3AM]

No Switch version?

 

[ManaByte]

Still best water in all of gaming too.

The water in Seas of Plenty or Ancient Isles during the day at 120fps is amazing.

 

[nial]

I never thought I would ever see a Rare game on PlayStation.

 

[ManaByte]

Do you think we will be able to transfer our progress to the Sony platform?

If that's the case I'll go from my old rickety PC to PS5 in a heartbeat.

They say it's cross platform. Will be the same as the Steam version, require a MS account to login.

 

[Wooxsvan]

lol that was funny

 

[ManaByte]

Is Sea of Thieves F2P?

Nope. $40.

 

[Little Chicken]

No Switch version?

I don't think it could handle it.

 

[ManaByte]

I don't think it could handle it.

It could. It runs on Unreal 4 and still runs on the Xbox One. Probably saving it for the Switch 2 launch though.

 

[LordCBH]

I don’t usually care for this type of game and I still ended up enjoying this with friends when they convinced me to get it on steam like two years ago, so it’s pretty good.

 

[user friendly]

Wonder when development started on these ports?

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Little Chicken]

It could. It runs on Unreal 4 and still runs on the Xbox One. Probably saving it for the Switch 2 launch though.

Oh I was thinking more of the online side. Are there any online open world games on Switch that are similar? I can't really think of any.

Edit: they've managed to put Grounded on it so who knows.

In any case, yeah I also expect to see it on Switch 2.

 

[Spyxos]

Now Sony players can feel the disappointment the rest of us had to endure.

That said haven’t played in years but man what a good looking waste of a game at launch.

Try it again, it turned out pretty damn good.

 

[FrankWza]

 

[ManaByte]

Wonder when development started on these ports?

Doesn't take much. They did the PS5 patch on the PC/Xbox yesterday. Actually improved the PC client as a result (added DX12 support).

Try it again, it turned out pretty damn good.

Season 11 revamped progression and it's even better now. You can go to level 100 with each trading company now (up from 75) and after 100 it works like old CoD prestige where it resets down to level 1 again and you level up to 100. Each time you prestige you get a ring.

 

[dotnotbot]

Neat, I will check it out once it arrives to Playstation Plus catalog

 

[GladiusFrog]

Now Sony players can feel the disappointment the rest of us had to endure.

That said haven’t played in years but man what a good looking waste of a game at launch.

It's a completely renovated game now, There is a lot of content and changes since the early days.

If you like Adventure, Pirates and Excellent game design this game is for you.

The passion and love from the developers shines through in this one, I love it.

 

[PontiusFeeb]

I know a lot of people love this game, but I just can’t stand it. The last time I played it was for the Monkey Island expansion, and it was a pain in the ass to start the expansion and the only way to save was to finish a whole episode. Absolute crap.

 

[Schmick]

This must be soo exciting for Rare.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

This must be soo exciting for Rare.

Genuinely seems that way from the video.

 

[Schmick]

I know a lot of people love this game, but I just can’t stand it. The last time I played it was for the Monkey Island expansion, and it was a pain in the ass to start the expansion and the only way to save was to finish a whole episode. Absolute crap.

There's multiple check points when playing through the missions. You can return to the game and the latest checkpoint by selecting the Tale from the Captains table.

 

[skyfinch]

See of Theif and Foamstars in the same year?! PlayStation is no joke.

 

[Neofire]

Now Sony players can feel the disappointment the rest of us had to endure.

That said haven’t played in years but man what a good looking waste of a game at launch.

Nah i am good lol

 

[TexMex]

Me when I log in on the PS5 version and get 150+ trophies popping:

Certainly possible, but unfortunately doesn’t work most of the time on cross platform/cross save releases.

 

[ManaByte]

Certainly possible, but unfortunately doesn’t work most of the time on cross platform/cross save releases.

It does with SoT. Everything is server side (it's a MMO) and it tracks EVERYTHING.

They usually turn off achievements at the start of a season due to the server load. But then when they turn them back on you get them retroactively.

 

[Woody337]

Is Sea of Thieves F2P?

Ummmmm no. Thats kinda the point. Microsoft needs ROI in a bad way.

 

[RayBoy]

 

[Mr Moose]

I wish the character models weren't ugly as fuck I might've picked it up. Nice water though.