Xbox Considers Hellblade 2 Exclusivity a Mistake, It's Claimed 1

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 picked up a couple of richly deserved trophies at The Game Awards this year, but it launched with barely a whimper. While it’s not a perfect metric by any stretch, the Ninja Theory sequel debuted with less than 4,000 players on Steam, and its inclusion in Game Pass likely kneecapped its full-price sales.

To make matters worse, the previous game, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, originally launched as a PS4 console exclusive, with its narrative-driven approach appealing to players on Sony’s system. Following the Cambridge-based developer’s acquisition, the sequel skipped the PS5 entirely.

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There have been murmurs of a port now Microsoft is bringing much of its catalogue across to rival consoles, and Xbox snoopster Jez Corden has claimed on social media that he’s “heard it considers Hellblade exclusivity a mistake”.

While it’s largely an off-the-cuff comment without any evidence to back it up, this wouldn’t exactly surprise us. The game did little to boost the fortunes of the Xbox Series X|S, and likely would have sold handsomely on Sony’s machine.

It remains to be seen whether a conversion will ever arrive, but as Microsoft has pointed out recently, this is more about developer resources than anything else right now. If Ninja Theory has the time, then expect a port at some point.

[source twitter.com]