As of the last half of the year, Microsoft has been making a lot of moves with their Xbox brand … so much so that they’ve been looking at other platforms to feature their content on. Most recently, they decided to bring Halo: The Master Chief Collection to Steam. Now according to a new report, Microsoft was actually at one point looking into bringing Halo: The Master Chief Collection to PS4 … and still may be. This report comes from a former IGN PlayStation journalist, known as Colin Moriarty, during a recent episode of Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast. According to Moriarty, Microsoft was at one point looking at bringing the collection of Master Chief games to PS4 a few years ago. Whether Microsoft is still interested in this is unclear, but you would think they’d still be willing to play ball … especially now with both Sony and Microsoft partnering up for cloud gaming.
“I have it on good authority that Master Chief Collection was being talked about on PS4 years ago. Like, I have that on great authority,” said Moriarty while speaking to co-host Chris Ray Gunn.
Moriarty says that he wouldn’t be surprised if he saw Xbox games coming to PS5 in the next few years, pointing out that he doesn’t think the Xbox brand is going anywhere and it will eventually bring its games everywhere. A few years ago, this was suggested by Microsoft themselves and it was seen as a wild suggestion that they would actually do this — but now seeing the moves Microsoft is making with Xbox, it’s completely on the table. It’s obvious that Microsoft believes the future of gaming is software/services and not hardware. Of course, this would undermine any and all reason to own an Xbox console over a PlayStation console.
Anyway, as usual, take this all with a grain of salt like any unofficial report. That being said, Moriarty has proven to be a reliable source in the past — especially when it comes to scoops involving PlayStation, which he religiously covered at IGN for many years.
As mentioned above, Moriarty doesn’t say whether or not Microsoft is still interested in bringing the collection of games to PlayStation consoles, but at the very least it sounds like those discussions were had between Xbox and PlayStation. And something tells me they won’t be the last discussions held between the two about the latter’s games being on former’s systems.
Personally, I don’t think any of this will happen as it would be too much of a hit to Microsoft’s wallet if they were to do this. As I stated above, yes, you can make your money back from the software (aka the games you sell to the public), but if your console isn’t selling to the people that it needs to and to become a success, then there is no point to have a console out on the market to compete … but I could be wrong. As always, feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you think. Will Xbox ever publish its games on PlayStation?
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