Hell freezes over: Xbox game became the most downloaded game on PS5 in May

Fans Xbox was thrilled when the company announced that it would be bringing some of its exclusive games to other platforms. But Microsoft’s bet is paying off, as one of its games was most downloaded on PS5 in Europe and North America in May. Near Sea of ​​ThievesVery good offer from Rare.

The data was confirmed by PlayStation itself through its official blog. This shows PS5 players’ interest in accessing products that, if limited to consoles, were previously only available on Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S.

The most curious thing about this matter is that Sea of ​​Thieves This is an “old” game considering how the video game industry has evolved in recent years. It’s worth remembering that Rare’s game debuted on Xbox One and PC in 2018. It then spread to the Series X and Series S, although a native version for those models was only released this year, shortly before its release on PS5. .

In the European ranking Sea of ​​Thieves took first place among the most downloaded games in May, released GTA V In second place. The third was F1 24And Top ten they completed it Assassin’s Creed Mirage, helldivers 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, TopSpin 2K25, Fallout 4, Who’s your daddy?! And Star Blade.

Meanwhile in the USA and Canada Sea of ​​Thieves was located higher Mad NFL 24, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, helldivers 2, GTA V, NBA 2K24, MLB Show 24, Star Blade, Fallout 4 And Who’s your daddy?!

Sea of ​​Thieves had a great debut on PS5

Sea of ​​Thieves It was one of the first Xbox games to be released on PlayStation.. Its appearance on PS5 was announced in February along with the release Grounded, Pentiment And HiFi Rush. It is expected that in the near future, new exclusives from the Microsoft console will move to its eternal competitor. There are even rumors that people from Redmond work in remaster from Halo for the Japanese platform.

Let’s keep in mind that while players may have added it to their wishlist in February, Rare’s It debuted on PS5 on April 30.. It means that Sea of ​​Thieves managed to take first place in the download rankings in its first month of existence in the PlayStation catalog. This is certainly a very positive sign for Microsoft’s plans to expand its presence on Sony consoles.

It is worth recalling that already in April, the Redmond-based publisher became the publisher with the largest number of games (7) among the 25 best-selling games for PlayStation. Of course, the data was somewhat “misleading” as it included headlines such as Call of Duty, Overwatch 2 or Fallout 4which was added to Microsoft’s catalog following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard and Bethesda.

What from Sea of ​​Thieves is more direct demonstration about the success that Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer can achieve with their new multi-platform strategy. We’ll see how everything goes, but the first results are more than encouraging for the corporation.