Rare's Sea Of Thieves was probably the most high-profile Xbox game to make the switch to PlayStation 5 earlier in the year, and Microsoft's multiplatform move seems to have paid off for the Xbox owner already.
In a new post over at the PlayStation Blog, Sony has detailed its software sales charts for May 2024, and Rare's pirate adventure tops the list in both the US and Europe. Yep, Sea of Thieves is officially the best-selling PS5 game in both regions for May 2024.
While we're not super surprised by this — SoT also topped the EU charts back in April — it's still fantastic to see - and it's also kind of wild that Xbox will be making a huge cut on these chart-topping PS5 sales. As for Rare, they'll no doubt be happy with a huge surge of new Sea of Thieves players this year.
In regards to what Xbox players can look forward to in future, the team has unveiled that Sea of Thieves Season 13 is landing on July 25th across all platforms - as announced by Microsoft at the Xbox Games Showcase.
Surprised to see Sea of Thieves do so well on PS5, PXers? Drop your thoughts on this news down below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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"it's still fantastic to see"
You sure? this just signals to Phil to open the flood gates faster and more wider for every single game with a Xbox logo to go to PlayStation which would then result in Xbox going third party 😐
but xbox has no games how come suddenly they want to play them
Sea of Theives dropping in the middle of a Playstation content drought was perfect timing.
I wonder if this was intentional on Microsoft's end...
This is a great thing for xbox.
@Tecinthehead and you haven't realised that that is the final aim yet???? Xbox simply can't compete with PlayStation on hardware sales and they've finally realised it, what better way to make money. The PS5 install base is more than double that of Xbox it makes absolute perfect sense for them to do this.
I remember when Xbox worked with LG .. I wish the found a way to build the console within the tv as a lifetime partner
it's still fantastic to see - and it's also kind of wild that Xbox will be making a huge cut on these chart-topping PS5 sales
Completely agree. Hopefully some of that huge cut will be siphoned towards other projects at Rare, like Everwild and whatever else they might be working on etc.
I'm also sure Sony are not exactly upset by news like this 😉. And Congrats to Rare!
Gaas games should be multiplatform and crossplay, there is no point from a business prospective to lock them on one system!
Any good for a single player?
@Jedge396 You can play on a safe server. You can’t get to pirate legend but you can play by yourself or with just your friends. There is tall tales that include lore. You can fish too. Or do most of the quests with each faction. It’s fun solo. It’s fantastic with friends.
GTA5 being no.2 best seller on PS5 in Europe is worrying. How old is that game?
Its a worrying trend for the industry that an old game outsell anything modern. Where’s all the new stuff pushing next gen gaming at?
And yet PlayStation gamers still refuse to admit Xbox has the most fun diverse gaming library.
@Tecinthehead
Precisely and that's likely the aim. Expect a lot more Xbox games on PS in the near future.
Lol at the fanboy comments on ”Xbox has no games but now they want to play them”… Every gamer wants to play all the good games that are out there. If you have to choose one platform to play on you pick the one that is best for you, be it Playstation, Xbox or Nintendo. Doesnt mean there arent games they want to play on other platforms.
Also, I dont believe anyone saying their ”rival” platform has no games they want to play, thats just childish fanboy *****!
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