{"id":10116,"date":"2025-04-11T06:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10116\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:49:11","slug":"sony-wont-force-psn-on-xbox-pc-players-of-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10116\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Won’t Force PSN on Xbox, PC Players of Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sony<\/a><\/p>\n

Marathon<\/a> is the first major release from Bungie since Sony acquired the studio, and it\u2019ll be a big moment for both parties.<\/p>\n

While Helldivers 2<\/a> has been a huge success for the Japanese giant, it\u2019s still searching for the live service goldmine, and it\u2019s not going to get a better shot than with the latest and greatest from the creators of Halo<\/a> and Destiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the new game \u2013 which is set to get its big unveiling later this week<\/a> \u2013 will be available on Xbox Series X|S and PC on day one, as Sony always said it\u2019d never make the developer\u2019s games exclusive.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s raised questions about whether the release will require a PSN account to play on other platforms.<\/p>\n

But Bungie has been swift at putting a stop to speculation, writing on Discord<\/a> that its game will \u201cnot require\u201d PSN on Xbox or PC.<\/p>\n

As this is a cross-platform experience with cross-save support, you will still need a Bungie account, so we\u2019re not sure this changes much for those repulsed by the idea of entering an email address. But it should at least save the release from getting review bombed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Sony owns Bungie, so whether you\u2019re using PSN or one of the developer\u2019s own accounts, it\u2019ll still be keeping tabs on your progress.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s perhaps good to know players won\u2019t be kicking up a stink over which account is required \u2013 after all, Bungie needs to make a positive impression here, so it could do with as few distractions as possible.<\/p>\n

[source discord.com<\/a>, via icon-era.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marathon is the first major release from Bungie since Sony acquired the studio, and it\u2019ll be a big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6958,6961,418,6957,6959,12,3669,154,55,6960,68,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-10116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bungie","9":"tag-first-person","10":"tag-fps-shooter","11":"tag-marathon","12":"tag-multiplayer","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-online","15":"tag-playstation-5","16":"tag-ps5","17":"tag-sci-fi","18":"tag-science-fiction","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114318001002458703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}