{"id":303053,"date":"2025-07-30T05:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303053\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:03:11","slug":"eye-opening-ps5-sales-data-reveals-why-microsoft-is-porting-xbox-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303053\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye-Opening PS5 Sales Data Reveals Why Microsoft Is Porting Xbox Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ports of older titles are even outselling heavy hitters like Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows, and the baseball MLB series at the top end of the sales chart.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:bhqrrxt7yyfpwguioa7rwa7x\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lv52lhohp22y\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreifeyod7snfqnhywfcu237fpu62lg5o6vuygiudc4ab64k5pcc5ns4\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Pulling together our huge Q2 Games Market Dynamics report, which includes this chart (among, like, frankly too many others) and just kinda stared at this one for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Wild times in the console market these days. Imagine showing this list to someone in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:bhqrrxt7yyfpwguioa7rwa7x?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:bhqrrxt7yyfpwguioa7rwa7x\/post\/3lv52lhohp22y?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-07-29T21:31:50.243Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More ports of Xbox games are expected to be confirmed in the coming weeks, but even without those reveals, we know the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/gears_of_war_reloaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gears of War: Reloaded<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/senuas_saga_hellblade_ii_enhanced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senua&#8217;s Saga: Hellblade 2<\/a> are coming across this summer. Rumours suggest Microsoft is also working on PS5 versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/starfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starfield<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-one\/halo_the_master_chief_collection\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halo<\/a>, and more. Based on the huge sales boost a PS5 port can give a game, it&#8217;s clear to see why Microsoft is persisting with its multi-platform efforts.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the possibility Sony could be getting in on the act too, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/helldivers_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helldivers 2<\/a> has already been announced for Xbox Series X|S. More recently, a PlayStation job listing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/07\/ps5-fans-getting-really-carried-away-with-job-listing-which-implied-more-exclusives-could-be-ported-to-xbox-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested the company is looking into more ports<\/a>, but was later played down by a reliable insider.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been supporting the Xbox game ports to PS5 with purchases? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3lv52lhohp22y\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3lv52lhohp22y\" target=\"_blank\">bsky.app<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Croft\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he&#8217;s found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ports of older titles are even outselling heavy hitters like Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows, and the baseball MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111690,507,55,493,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-circana","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-ps5","11":"tag-sales","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114940438433038401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303053","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=303053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}