Helldivers 2 Xbox port requires "both partners" to agree on something, reveals Arrowhead

Arrowhead has explained to fans what is required for Helldivers 2 to finally land on Xbox Series X/S consoles.

[P_Bomb]

Make a trade? Helldivers for…I don’t know. What game would PlayStation mains like to see?

[just_looken]

Microsoft has already tossed games on playstation like grounded/seas of thieves soon halo.

Perhaps sony would allow xbox to do what they wanted before and put gamepass on playstation then sony put a store on xbox. We need competition if these console are going digital there is a reason courts stepped in on mobile phones only having one store.

[gigoran8]

maybe if it were games from 2024 instead of 2020 and 2018

[just_looken]

@gigoran8

Those games are already on playstation so what you want day one games now from xbox? like a starfield port asap?

This would defeat the point of exclusives then at least give it a year or 2 like sony does for pc or like i siad in my comment but a xbox store on playstation then a playstation store on xbox.

[DodoDojo]

Gamepass would cannibalize game sales like it has on Xbox, Sony isnt going to let that happen. Sony was reluctant to even let EA Play on their system.

[Bathyj]

If you want competition on consoles we just need to have more than one good console. Not putting everything on everything .

[derek]

@just_looken, what you're describing isn't competition it's the opposite of competition.

[Gamingsince1981]

"Those games are already on playstation so what you want day one games now from xbox? like a starfield port asap?" Why would you want to punish playstation players with starfield? Seems cruel and unecessary, not even xbox fans want that game.

[Tedakin]

Uh they're already seeing Indiana Jones, Hi Fi Rush, Sea of thieves, and more.... Seems a fair trade for 1 game.

[just_looken]

Oh that is right forgot about those

[repsahj]

No please! Let Sony and Nintendo do what they do best, and if Microsoft doesn't want to be the Third player, let's wait for a new one.

[InUrFoxHole]

Lol trade for what? MS has been more than generous to sony gamers. Sony should reciprocate.

[Shane Kim]

By buying up the competition?

[InUrFoxHole]

@Shane Kim
Actually you could say that. Compare how many studios sony has purchased then brought those games to xbox vs. How many MS has.

[Knightofelemia]

If I remember correctly the MLB jumped in and told Sony to port the Show to other platforms. As for porting this game to a third platform I can see Sony weighing on the pros and cons. But a game this popular it would be nice to port it to a third option means more sales. Last thing you want to do is piss off the fans.

[dveio]

Pure speculation:

• I could imagine Sony don't want Helldivers 2 in Game Pass, if Microsoft would only want players to have it in Game Pass.

• I could imagine Sony would want to build the IP even more. Helldivers 3 whenever it will release, from everything they've learned already, could have the potential to be even more fun, even more stable (yep!), just bigger & better as an IP itself.

• Would Microsoft even want their rival's online shooter on its console platform in competition with Doom, Wolfenstein, Gears, Halo and CoD?

• Human factor of envy, feuds, prior exclusive deals and buy-outs.

[just_looken]

If sony wanted to build the ip it would have not let the support studio die
https://www.gamesindustry.b...

Or stop the arrowhead mods posting fury porn on the official discord
https://www.reddit.com/r/As...
https://thatparkplace.com/h...

Then you had sony forcing account creations then stopped it but still is banned in alot of areas 90% pc player population drop
https://gamerant.com/helldi...

But hey its n4g get that copium bottle sony will save this ip

[dveio]

"If sony wanted to build the ip it would have not let the support studio die"

If you would actually read the sources you post, which I do to sustain a level of unbiased discussion, you'd know that this support studio has no legal ties with Sony. But is owned by a Swedish parent company called Enab Global.

But hey, it's you again that doesn't follow up on your own nickname and just look things up from time to time.

Right?

[trez1082]

Jesus. Do you actually believe what you type or just hate reality? No saving needed when helldiver is in a better place right now. What level are you on it ? I’m lvl 61 and stopped playing because of the nerfs and since September the game is much better and we came back and strong.

https://www.polygon.com/imp...

https://www.thegamer.com/he...

Real gamers play games and will suppport great games and helldivers 2 is a great game and the ip is stronger than ever. I swear the success and continued success of this game has done things to some. It’s just a game and a great one. Arrowhead fixed the nerfs and the game is better than it was at lunch and players came back. Fact.

[just_looken]

@dveio

Did i say sony owned the studio? please wise elder show were i said that

Sony could have purchased the studio instead of firewalk you know have a studio that knows about the live service space not one that is a glorified indie space but hey firewalk hazah.

@trez1082

It went from almost half a million to a 18-26 thousand now its around 35 thousand at peak best after they listened to the community with feedback
https://steamdb.info/app/55...

So yeah again wow congrats you got less than 10% of the original players back i played the first game for a long time till that community died have not played my 30 character on hd2 ps5 in awhile it got stale to me because it has 0 new content over the first game.

Yeah it was a success at first but now its stable

[dveio]

@looken

"Did i say sony owned the studio? please wise elder show were i said that"

Then why did you blame Sony that it died?

Listen, I don't want go nuts here now on either you nor that support studio that is owned by a Swedish parent company and that seems to have absolutely no legal ties with Sony.

All I wanted to say is:

Relax and read your sources from time to time.

And don't always exaggerate things so much.

What in the blue hell is going to happen to Helldivers if a Swedish parent company decided to close a studio that worked, in whatever way, on Helldivers 2?

I'll tell you.

Sony is most likely going to evaluate how they'll replace this workforce. And most certainly it's not by buying out a firm entity that's tangled legally to a Swedish parent company.

But by maybe try hiring indiviual people that lost their jobs.

That's usual practice in the job world out there.

[trez1082]

“ it was a success at first and now it’s stable “ is that you describing a game that needs saving or a successful game?

“ that community died have not played my 30 character on hd2 ps5 in awhile it got stale to me because it has 0 new content over the first game.“

You just said at its worst it had 18-20 on steam alone and that’s a dead community ?
You say you played on pa5 and yet keep talking steam numbers…I mean the game shows how many players are on ps5 so why don’t you show that too or better yet, why don’t you combine both as you should?

And less content than hellsiver 1? If you played the first one as you’re claiming than you should know that the second one is a third person shooter and not a top down shooter. Do you even understand the difference between the the two?

Hard to believe anything you’re saying. I’m on the Reddit community and can tell you the game is a big success and I don’t even see why you’re trying so hard to downplay it. It’s just a game and a good one. It’s a win for Sony no matter how you cut it and if they were to announce a third game that things would sell millions.

[just_looken]

@trez1082

Its a sony ip no matter what they do say or i show on here i will always getting mass down voted

top down shooter to a first person shooter WOW everyone get the president its a major achievement

same guns/planets/enimes/tanks/mech s progression around what the community does

But again its a sony ip so we are not allowed to say anything bad about it.

[Hedstrom]

Sony doesnt really need Xbox player base when its so small in comparison to their own. Xbox on the other hand need the PlayStation player base because it is so large and that they have bought studios for 80 billion dollar. They need to get a as large player base as possible to put their games on and start getting value for their investment.

[Sonic1881]

That's the same thing I was thinking

[Obscure_Observer]

Gonna save your comment for later. Your predictions are funny. Like the one you did about Black Myth winning GOTY.

[Sonic1881]

I have several GOTY contenders this year, including BMW. My GOTY actually changed after I played ASTRO BOT. But BMW is still one of my favorite games this year. I don't know what your comment has to do with what I said to Hedstrom🤔

[Obscure_Observer]

Your GOTY changes based on Metascores rather on what you actually play. We both know that.

Let´s see how your predictions regarding BMW winning GOTY will turn out.

"I don't know what your comment has to do with what I said to Hedstrom🤔"

Oh yes, sorry. I got carried away about your funny predictions and I forgot to mention about your comment.

Sony actually needs all player base they can get. Helldivers community on PC is their biggest and since people are jumping off Helldivers for the next big thing (COD?), they could see an increase infusing Xbox players to help and keep their most succesful GaaS game (after Destiny) afloat.

That´s why I saved your comment. The moment Sony change their minds about Helldivers and Xbox, I´ll come back to you.

[goken]

@0bscure

Wukong not winning GOTY isn’t a reflection of anything. Since it’s clear the games media in the west has a hard on for discriminating against wukong and stellar blade.
Wukong’s win percentage was intentionally lowered by IGN.
While golden joystick didn’t even bother to nominate stellar and wukong.

Not winning due to bias and discrimination doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to win

[Giga_Gaia]

Sony would never do that. Microsoft needs to put their games on Playstation because Xbox is too small. The opposite is not true. Sony doesn't need Xbox, so they don't need to put their games on Xbox.

[repsahj]

Microsoft wants to take the multiplayer road, they should not force Sony to take that road as well.

[OldDuffer]

Sony will never publish this game for xbox, why would they bother to do that? They have an exclusive platform to promote and you dont do that by making your best IPs available elsewhere.
If you want to play Helldivers 2, you play on PC or buy a PS5. Its that simple.

[Npugz7]

How about PlayStation owners get a ODST theme pack

[Kekewei]

Microsoft does not release their games on playstation out of kindness, they just desperately need playstation to make up the sale loss from gamepass. But Sony doen't need xbox. Sony owe nothing to Microsoft