What you need to know
- Helldivers 2 is a third-person co-op shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios that released on Windows PC and PS5 in February.
- The game quickly became a massive hit shortly after its launch, with fans falling in love with the game's chaotic action and hilarious Starship Troopers-inspired satire. Unsurprisingly, many Xbox users have been asking for a port of the game.
- However, Helldivers 2 is published by Sony and is a PlayStation console exclusive, so whether the game eventually gets an Xbox version or not is up to Sony.
- Arrowhead community manager Thomas "Twinbeard" Petersson explained this on the official Helldivers 2 Discord server on Wednesday morning, noting that Sony might bring the game to Xbox "if both partners think it would benefit them from a financial/brand standpoint."
- An Xbox release could help raise Helldivers 2's player count higher, and would also mean lots of extra profit. However, Sony has to weigh the value of this against the game's ability to help sell PS5 hardware.
