PlayStation Exclusive 'Kena: Bridge Of Spirits' Rated For Xbox Series X|S

There's been plenty of news about Xbox games moving over to PlayStation recently, but how about one coming the other way? Well, 2021's Kena: Bridge of Spirits has just been ESRB rated for an upcoming Xbox Series X|S release

[shadowT]

Kena was original announced as console exclusive "for a limited time"..

[Inverno]

Not to mention it's also been on PC, so not exclusive at all.

[ravens52]

"Console" Exclusive.

[DickyD1226]

So Xbox has no exclusives?

[Cacabunga]

Finally.. i think they said it would be time exclusive for like 6 months.

[badz149]

@DickyD1226

never has.

[Juancho51]

Console exclusives are exclusive to certain consoles … really not hard to comprehend unless you’re a salty gamer fighting an imaginary console war.

I just got this game on the PS+ Catalogue to redeem some points on the rewards program, it’s not mindblowing, but it’s a very pretty action adventure game. Not thrilled about it but i pick it up randomly sometimes when i take a break from my usual fare.

[Inverno]

It may be "exclusive" to a certain console but it's still multiplatform because it's on more than one platform.

[Jin_Sakai]

Amazing game. I wish they’d make a sequel.

[Eonjay]

Its available on PS Plus for anyone to try.

[Sonic1881]

It should go the Nintendo switch as well

[Profchaos]

I was thinking this would make a good launch title for the switch 2

[roadkillers]

Ah, I was hoping Sony would purchase them.

[Elda]

Kena is owned,developed & published by Ember Labs studios & it was a "limited" PS console exclusive. PS having it as a console exclusive for 3 years is enough time to pass it on to another console platform.

[VersusDMC]

It's just hack journalism saying 3rd party exclusives going to other competing platforms is the same as 1st party. Shall we say that Nintendo games are going to other consoles since No More Heroes 3, Octopath and Monster Hunter Rise got ported to other consoles? Dumb.

[Crows90]

It's also called fake News journalism or bad journalism, misinformation...so many names for it.

[Abnor_Mal]

Okay might be showing my age, but back in the days, way back it was called yellow journalism.

[DOMination-]

So defensive lol..

If we're so concerned about third party now, can we apply the same logic to games like FF7 Rebirth, Stellar Blade & Helldivers which I regularly see people on here spouting as First Party or "Sony Games"

[VersusDMC]

@DOM

If you want to say sea of thieves going to PS5 is the same as Kena going Xbox then go crazy.

It's as dumb as saying Horizon going to xbox is the same as Cuphead going to PS5.

[neomahi]

Microsoft began buying timed exclusives and timed DLC starting with GTA IV back on Xbox 360. This didn't used to be a practice until then. I don't ever recall this being a thing

[VersusDMC]

Pretty sure the PS2 gen had 3rd party exclusives. Panzer dragoon orta, Jet set , dino crisis 3, steel batallion for xbox. Nintendo had Capcom exclusivity for a bit on RE4, Viewtiful Joe and REmake. Onimusha, Gta, Final Fantasy for Sony.

Probably way more than that.

PS1 gen as well...but most exclusives then were developers chosing cartridge(N64) over CD. You could bring up the Saturn but i believe it just didn't get ports because it had a horrible launch in the states.

[Gamer75]

Timed exclusivity was a thing before Xbox existed

[Lightning77]

Not even remotely true or maybe you're too young . This practice has been going on since Sega, nintendo and PS1 days.

[porkChop]

Not true. Timed exclusivity existed before Xbox even entered the console business. Sony did it, Nintendo did it, and Sega likely did as well.

[Profchaos]

I recall this was a practice as early as the NES however Nintendo wrote in their licensing agreement if you want to make games for NES they must be exclusive to the console. Given the closest competitor at the time was the master system they were the only real act in time and the Atari had bombed hard that gen. Nintendo would also threaten to stop supplying games to retailers if they sold unlicensed third party games which and retailers would then be faced with the choice of hey do we sell this tengen garbage or so we want Mario easy choice there was a lot of legal battles in those days.

Also noteable in the more modern era was the Capcom 5 Nintendo got 5 exclusive titles from Capcom.

In the PS1 and N64 era exclusive games were mainly because the system architectures were vastly different it was a huge undertaking to port a game I done recall either company paying for exclusivity and the biggest name games often found their way onto both platforms with bespoke editions like quake 2.

Microsoft definitely threw their wallet around that generation while Sony publicly stated they believed they no longer had to do this and their first party was strong enough to carry them which they went back on pretty quickly after Microsoft walked away with timed exclusive GTA and cod content that really hurt them.

[Lexreborn2]

Kena was a really good game, anything that helps it get more exposure is welcomed.

[purple101]

what's that one Sony did before Kena that was like Ninetndo's pikimin, I forget, I missed that and it looked fun, might try to grab on sale, it would be my second ONLY ever digital purchase, (as I don't think it was ever physical as its a small game)

[Crows90]

Not sure but Sony didn't do kena

[purple101]

okay smartie pants, "one sony paid for exclusivity, like they did with Kena"

found it anyway, was called "Bugsnax"

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[neomahi]

I don't think Pinkman and Kena are really the same thing. At the end of the day though, Ember Labs has a really talented animation team, but as game designers they're lacking. It was a really pretty game but, man was it frustrating! Areas you thought you could go but we're blocked off, poor level design, probably what Hellblade II is gonna end up being

[purple101]

Pikimin and bugsnax

Not pikimin & Kena

[GamingSinceForever]

That was a good game and surprisingly difficult.

[blackblades]

Not really, some parts a little bit. Should've tried hard mode.

[nitus10]

IMO the best way to play is to choose the easy mode first up to at least the first and second bosses then choose to restart on a harder dificulty with the hardest difficulty being very challenging.

Actually playing on easy mode allows you to find all the items including the "rot" (use your mask to look for footprints) without being that frustrated. By doing this you can always look at your easy saved game map to find to find all items if you eventually play on a harder difficulty.

[monkey602]

Great game!

[jznrpg]

Wow this came out around launch. Pretty good game though. Great to play with your children but you will need to help them

[Crows90]

Omg...what massive denial. This isn't Sony studios games coming to Xbox. Lol

[Terry_B]

It never was a ps exclusive game.

[RNTody]

You clearly didn't do your homework if you didn't know that this game was a timed exclusive - it even had timed exclusivity on Epic Games before going to Steam.

Great game, I loved it, visuals and music were awesome and DualSense features were great.

Try less hard to push the idea that exclusives are dying just because Microsoft gave up on them and needs to go multiplat to make up those acquisition costs.

[neomahi]

It just goes to show, if you're patient enough, anything is possible. It's a team that has potential. Sony could've really benefited from acquiring them, if I were CEO of SIE, I wouldve

[Psychonaut85]

Nice! Great game, now everyone will get to enjoy it.

[Software_Lover]

Never owned it on Playstation but I have it on PC. Good fun game.

[Friendlygamer]

This was a surprisingly refined action game, the boss variety blew my mind

[Spenok]

Such a great game. I hope people on Xbox support it as well.

[Charlieboy333]

Kena is not a Sony first party game or a Playstation IP. Try again.

[bigfish]

How many units is this realistically going to sell on Xbox?

[Knightofelemia]

Still a good game I enjoyed it the music was pretty good in it. Now Xbox players get to play it and enjoy it now.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Pure bullshit.

One of the many problems of today's journalism.

[anast]

"Limited time" Xbox writers are sales people.

[TheEroica]

Congratulations to the developers who get to sell their game to a new install base... It's likely that boot licking corporate shills will downvote it, but that's what you get with your modern day fanboys.

[46player]

As someone who has played through this game and beaten it, this is the best game. It’s been added to the Xbox library this year. Kena bridge of spirits is a fantastic game.

[Profchaos]

Games been out for like three years and has been given away as part of PS plus so I don't think they are making any more sales on the PS are of things.

I would think making this game a switch 2 launch title with a physical release would be a money maker.

Game was alright not amazing but it's visuals are stunning however gameplay was a but repetitive and you could tell the team didn't have all that much experience with level design as objectives like doors were not clearly identifiable

[Father__Merrin]

Was a timed exclusive. Bottom of barrel reporting

[Magatsuhi]

I mean, why bother releasing on a dead console?

[InUrFoxHole]

I think for the remainder of this gen I'm going to invest in coping skills and goal post movers... The writing is on the wall console warriors

[ocelot07]

Solid little title. We could do with more games like it as well as games like Kameo one of my favourite 360 games.