Avowed Is the Latest Xbox Game Studios Title Headed to PlayStation

Avowed is the latest Xbox Game Studios instauration to caput to PlayStation, developer Obsidian announced today.

This quality came arsenic portion of an interrogation connected the New Game+ Showcase, wherever Obsidian developers shared that the February 17 motorboat connected PS5 would coincide with the game's promised day update connected each platforms.

The day update contains a fig of long-requested features, including a New Game Plus mode, a Photo Mode, the quality to play 3 caller races (Aumaua, Orlan, and Dwarves), a caller limb type, the quality to alteration quality successful the overworld, and a fig of different asked-for upgrades.

Pre-orders for the PS5 mentation volition spell unrecorded today, and the update volition beryllium disposable for escaped for those who already ain it connected different platforms.

Avowed came retired astir a twelvemonth agone (hence the day update), and we gave it a 7/10 astatine the time. While we said it has "awesome worldbuilding and stellar quality writing", it besides "plays it rather harmless with a by-the-numbers phantasy adventure."

Avowed's determination to PlayStation is portion of a larger inclination of Xbox releasing its first-party games connected its rival platform, including precocious Forza Horizon 5, Doom: The Dark Ages, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and adjacent Halo.. It's a strategy that seems to beryllium moving for them good successful immoderate respects - successful 1 4th of past year, six of the 10 best-selling games connected PlayStation were Xbox-published. And its enactment has publically embraced the thought that consumers find level exclusivity to beryllium "antiquated."

Will this strategy service them good arsenic hardware prices skyrocket and players gravitate much toward everlastingly games? We took a stab astatine guessing however Xbox's 2026 volition go, and you tin work those predictions here.

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