Hellblade 2 could be released for PS5 ‘pretty soon’, it’s claimed
Ninja Theory’s Hellblade 2 is reportedly coming to PS5
Microsoft is reportedly bringing Hellblade 2 to PlayStation 5, and it could do so sooner rather than later.
That’s according to Windows Central executive editor Jez Corden, who mentioned Microsoft’s plans for Ninja Theory’s game on X on Tuesday.
Sony today announced plans to hold a 40-minute State of Play presentation on Wednesday, which will focus on upcoming PS5 games.
“Hellblade 2 time maybe? :)”, Corden wrote in response to the State of Play news.
On the subject of whether the game will be released for Sony’s console at some point, he added: “Not if, ‘when!’ and when is pretty soon from what I’ve been hearing.”
Xbox announced last February plans to bring a wave of games to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, in what appeared to be a significant change of strategy, starting with Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves and Grounded.
Later, Microsoft announced Doom: The Dark Ages for Xbox Series X/S, PC, and PS5, and confirmed that a PS5 version of its Indiana Jones game will be released this spring.
Forza Horizon 5 will also be released for PS5 this spring, Microsoft announced last month. And just last week, Xbox revealed plans to bring Age of Mythology: Retold and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition to Sony’s console this year too.
Last November, Microsoft’s gaming CEO Phil Spencer reiterated that the company won’t rule out any first-party Xbox game potentially coming to rival platforms such as PlayStation and Nintendo in the future.
Matt Booty, Microsoft’s president of game content and studios, also told Variety in December: “We are very much making the [exclusivity and windowing] decisions on a game by game basis. And each of our studios is in a little bit of a different position.
“There’s also the production timeline on a game, so the decision on spacing comes there first. We want to make sure there’s a great experience for our Xbox players, and then the gap between [when it becomes available on PlayStation] is as much a production decision as it is anything else.”
