Both Xbox maker Microsoft and PlayStation publisher Sony have a wide array of games exclusive to their consoles (PC releases aside), but not every exclusive is permanent, or even developed first-party by a studio the companies own. These third-party timed exclusives tend to eventually make their way to the platform directly competing with their original one as a result, and on Wednesday, it was announced that this is happening with STALKER 2 coming to PS5 later this year.
Though developer GSC Game World created the highly anticipated open-world survival shooter sequel with help from Xbox and Microsoft, it's not owned by it, and thus became free to publish the game on PlayStation after a timed exclusivity period ended. Now that it has, the studio plans to port STALKER 2 to PS5 in "late 2025."
