In case you missed it, there have been a lot of reports recently about Xbox exclusives being ported over to rival platforms. The latest of these rumours concerns one of Microsoft's biggest franchises, the third-person shooter series Gears of War, which is apparently being considered for a port to PlayStation.
This comes from Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb, known for weighing in on hot topics with some degree of insider information. Speaking on his usual show, he says Gears of War is one he's heard is "definitely under consideration", stressing that this doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen.
As mentioned, it joins a growing list of Xbox-only franchises that are said to be making the leap to other consoles. This all got started with rumours about Hi-Fi Rush, which has since looked more likely with mounting evidence. Since then, we've heard reports from various sources saying Starfield, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and more are being considered for ports.
It's also been reported that Microsoft had been planning to address this change in strategy later this month, but because of all this gossip, it may be forced to put out a statement sooner rather than later. While these are all still just rumours for now, the sheer quantity of them must surely be leading to something.
[source youtube.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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Let’s get it over and done with Microsoft.
Stop making hardware and become a massive publisher only.
Get it done let your fans know and we can move on and get these games on Sony and Nintendo consoles.
All these Microsoft stories are gaining a lot of traction - I wouldn't be surprised if we hear something from them soon
Finally. Now I just need to invent a time machine so I can travel back to 2006 and show this article to Xx_SniperBro_666 and prevent the console fanboy wars from ever happening in the first place.
While I do believe that some games will come (namely Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves, maybe Starfield) people are running rampant with these rumors now and just spewing whatever at the moment
I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Microsoft transforming into SEGA.
Gamepass will be on Playstation by 2026
****, how are we supposed to differentiate between GoW (God of War) and GoW (Gears of War) on a PlayStation website now?
@ShogunRok Not forgetting Gems of War too.
We commit to put COD on PlayStation for at least 10 years and…every other game we make.
I think rumors are going too rampant…I can see a few games making it to PlayStation (I am totally convinced about ES6 now) but all these rumors seem a bit too much if they are staying in the console maker market. There’s barely any reason to buy an Xbox now if you have a decent PC, this would make it just extravagant.
@Perturbator @ShogunRok I laughed.
Reminds me of the leaked Gears of War 3 PS3 build from a few years ago, crazy times.
Tainting Playstation holy consoles with chainsawed Locust content... That's sacrilege, I tell you!
: )
So who do y'all think could potentially replace Xbox in the console race? Apple? Valve? Google? Ringling Bros? BP?
I always said it’s a win/win for them to release on other platforms whilst offering a cheaper offer via their GP. They’re going to make a lot of money back quicker so it’s not like this is the end of MS as a gaming entity. Sadly, it’s going to upset a lot of fans who have heavily invested into their ecosystem.
When they got the Activision buy going I always wondered how they could afford to have a game like Doom become platform exclusive when it’s been a ip that has always been available to any system that wants it.
This just seems so surprising but in a good way. Like world peace is suddenly happening before our very eyes.
And is Phil still radio silent? The coward.
@ShogunRok
Maybe just add in an extra letter at the beginning?
GOOW=God of War
GEOW=Gears of War
That's my suggestion. 😄
Xbox console is coming built into the ps5 next
Forza will be next in the rumour Mill if it hasn't been already.
@HotGoomba Nvidia should make its own "full-powered" console to compete with AMD.
@ShogunRok Just say "Gears" in reference to Gears of War: "Gears series", "Gears 1", "Gears 2", etc.
@HotGoomba Apple have ZERO interest in the console gaming business. Their focus is elsewhere such as automobiles, movies, health wearable advancements, building their own in house silicon and so forth. I very much doubt they want to invest in bringing out a console when their biggest rivals in Silicon Valley is potentially winding down their hardware side.
@HotGoomba no one, everyone will focus on cloud while Nintendo and Sony do their thing. It'll be like buying an analog radio in 2024 (which btw Sony keeps making)
Microsoft needs to address this. Basically their entire catalogue is being rumoured for PS5 at this point. The only one I haven’t really seen mentioned yet is Forza.
@BusyOlf xbox ecosystem is merged with PC so any accounts don’t lose anything . i wish all consoles would merge with PC, thats the best thing that could ever happen
Would LOVE to play Gears on PS5!
I only played the first one on 360. My cousin and me use to play gears and resistance fall of man switch back and forth from PS3 and 360 back in 2006/2027. Wold definitely be interested in playing a port on PS5.
@get2sammyb totally agree. If this isn’t true it’s doing a lot of damage and MS need to squash it. If it is true why wait to tell us any longer?
Also forza is the one game I do want from Xbox!
If Gears comes over then MS have become Sega. I've been saying all along MS will go 3rd party and well here we are.
I would buy Gears of War that's the only XBox game I'm interested in
Wow thats interesting.we will see.microsoft need to say something.and i want the next doom to be on ps5 also.word up son
Idk what this all means, but I really hope PS will still have console competition. Good lord, it will be awful if they don't.
A few weeks ago it was a no smoke without fire situation, now it's a raging inferno.
What's even more telling is that these rumours have been going on for weeks and yet Phil Spencer (a man who is never short on things to say) has been very quiet.
Xbox decided they want to start selling some games, eh?
Well they gotta start recouping that 66billion purchase some how...
@MrMagic
It's not like you can trust anything he says, anyway. It's perhaps better this way.
@Perturbator console fanboying started LONG before 2006 my friend
@gymratAmarillo Yeah I don't care about cloud at all, so while I commend you for trying to pull off the illusion that you have the authority to speak for all people, you missed the mark pretty egregiously.
My fave games from the 360 era.. the first 3. Would love to play them coop again
If Microsoft left the console making business and became a publisher, I wonder what will happen to gamespass. Sony are not going to let them release other third party games on it as it would eat their sales commission and with no xbox economy, I don't think publishers will want their games on their if its not reaching the required console audience. Would Microsoft only gamespass be enticing? Love to know the attach rate of ea access on playstaion as that's the only other ganes subscription on playstation at moment
I guess you don’t spend around $90 billion in acquisitions since 2018 and expect shareholders to wait for massive profits from the growth. Letting PlayStation and Nintendo users contribute to Microsoft’s Xbox growth will be letting the genie out of the bottle. Shareholders won’t let those revenue streams disappear if allowed.
It sounds like threw money to help Xbox, then wanted to put it all on Gamepass, realized the lack of word of mouth from not being on PS and the lack of actual sales didn't help the bottom line, and now are trying to fix the billions they used on publishers in a way that doesn't make a lot of sense.
I think MS's Xbox management has simply been a disaster and throwing money around has made some people actually want to see a return sooner.
Xbox has been terribly mismanaged ever since the first 2/3rds of the 360's lifespan ended.
Sounds too crazy to be true, but crazier things have happened.
@lacerz Definitely, Xbox has been so tragically mismanaged for ages now.
It wouldn't surprise me if they one day try sell the publishers they bought for a profit or break even and then try a more traditional strategy of cultivating good games if they get a big management shift.
@gymratAmarillo @BusyOlf Can't believe that BP has no interest in the console market.
Besides what Bethesda does this is really the only franchise from Xbox I’d really care about. Would love to platinum the first 3 on PlayStation
Did you guys just make 4 separate articles from 4 different writers for this lol
I’d love to see Gears of War come to PlayStation. Let’s not forget that there was a build of the game for the PS3. I’m curious though — if this turns out true will we get a remastered trilogy, or just the series as it is now ported over? Either way, I’ll be there day one. The original trilogy still looks gorgeous and holds up remarkably well.
This what happens when the series S is beating X by 3:1 and playstation out selling xbox at 3:1 which is a weird coincidence.
I can imagine MS’s thought process with this. They buy $60B worth of studios and IP that mostly sold on PS and are thinking they don’t want to forfeit that revenue so continue to release titles like CoD etc on PS.
Then they’re thinking well if we’re releasing half of our portfolio, why not the other half?
Doesn’t make sense for MS to only release the games that used to be on PS from their acquisition. What’s the difference between those games and MS’s existing IP now… nothing, they’re all under the same umbrella.
@OldGamer999 not a xbox shutdown.
i see microsoft going the switch way and just publish a windows platform system like the lenovo go.
and throw everything on every system.
microsoft knows xbox games never sell on xbox.
the 10+ million for halo 3 was due to being included with the system (i even own one).
These rumours can not be real..I can see one or two games coming from Xbox to PS BUT gears of war?? Naww that's a main game for Xbox when you think Xbox I always remember halo and gears before any other game
I would lose it if Killer Instinct (original and/or remake) makes the jump, I have been contemplating getting an Xbox for years just for that series so bring it over here Phil!
@tangyzesty and I don't care if you care about cloud or not LOL. My opinion was about the big companies not consumers.
@Juanalf This is not Phil's call. I think he's going to be out at Xbox within the next year, if these rumors turn out to be true.
@0niguy Gears of War is not the system seller it once was. Halo, which is also rumored to be coming to PS, would be a far bigger bombshell.
I heard Fable is coming to PS, my source you ask? Trust me
@theSpectre maybe not but definitely a one the top Xbox games definitely sold me on buying a 360 at the time
I think these rumours started off legit sounding but now spiraled too far that people are just adding every game to fuel the fire.
I honestly think it's just the Bethesda games that are coming to playstation due to contractual reasons triggered by low revenue.
I hope it’s true. Microsoft should exit the console hardware market and just be a publisher. Let Sony have monopoly, would please a lot of diehard Sony fans.
Best would be if Nintendo follows suit.
Tell ya what MS, I'll be happy to call you friend and accept your push to 3rd Party if the following comes true:
1) Gears on PlayStation
2) Talk to any x360 dev you second partied into a PS5 remaster, namely Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, and Blue Dragon
3) when all is said and done give me no reason to hold onto my X360 anymore and sell my Xbox Series X so I can buy all this *****.
@ShogunRok Just call it “Gears” and be done, it’s short enough and works better than calling God of War “God.”
@Relygon Sony should follow suit too. Intellivision can then release the Amico and take over the world with no competition.
These rumours have gotten way out of hand. I wont believe anything about this matter until it's confirmed.
I could see Starfield, Sea of Thieves and Hi Fi Rush coming to PS5, but somehow have a hard time believing that Microsoft would allow any of their Trinity of top franchises (Halo, Gears and Horizon) to be considered. They should allow Insomniac to bring over Sunset Overdrive.
@0niguy but there will be no xbox , only microsoft game studios.
@Kraven I'd say it'll be a trilogy , it'll sell like hot cakes on ps
If they just bring over the trilogy, which I’ve played, we’re talking about games that are a decade old, it’s basically the same thing as the Uncharted trilogy going to PC. They can then put out a new game that’s Xbox only. I don’t think a decade old trilogy signals the end of Xbox. The poor sales signal the end of Xbox, but not GoW.
Can you all imagine getting a platinum trophy for Halo or Gears? lol
Excellent i love the gears of war series.
Always wanted to play Gears Of War but never wanted to buy an Xbox. Really hope this happens! At this rate, throw in Halo and Sunset Overdrive and I'd be over the moon about it all!!
If there's no more Xbox that's actually sad news, means competition would go away and Sony will have a blast pulling off all of the Anti consumer practices, even with Xbox on the scene that barely stopped them.
That would be amazing to see Gears on PlayStation. Would buy instantly. The only franchise on Xbox I'm interested in. Personally Microsoft should throw in the towel on the Xbox brand, like Sega did. Even though I wish Sega was still making consoles.
Just care about starfield at this point 🤩 maybe hi fi rush as it seems ok, never seen the reviews for it, this is on fire atm
Remember its just rumors guys. Doesn't mean they are true.
@ShogunRok call it only Gears
@ShogunRok with symbols obviously ⚙️ and ♎
Gears and Doom - make it so.
@JalapenoSpiceLife What happened to it being called "starfailed" which it is. Gone from starfailed and xbox has no games to slobbering over the thought of Xbox games coming to playstation, it's just gonna be another situation where a game nobody likes for example redfall and ghostwire coming to a different system.
You're all fools if you think Sony is co-operating with Microsoft to get game pass and Xbox games on their system, literally the same company who reneged on Skyrim/fallout mods and for years refused to do crossplay with switch and Xbox, the only way you'll be getting starfield or any big release like that is if the big wigs at Sony crawled to Phil Spencer and begged him, if they didn't then there is no way Spencer just approached one and offered them a deal because past experiences show Sony isn't big on co-operation
I'll take it with lost odyssey
Ok... so when is the PS3 version Epic did tests of for Gears 3? XD
Who knows at this point what is true and what is made up.
That aside I mean cool I guess? To have their IPs for more Microsoft money I guess..... We getting Microsoft like the Sega Saturn/PC days Sega went for to make money as Saturn wasn't doing well or prepping for third party transition?
Microsoft doesn't have to they can still have a console it's not like companies can't bend the rules to have a product serve a purpose and still publish wherever as long as the other companies are ok with it right or have a third party publisher publish for them in other regions it used to be in the past but for any version of the game?
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