First-Party PlayStation Game Could Be Coming to Xbox Soon

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First-Party PlayStation Game Could Be Coming to Xbox Soon



Summary

  • LEGO Horizon Adventures is reportedly coming to Xbox consoles.
  • The game’s Xbox port may arrive by early 2025.
  • Developed by Studio Gobo and PlayStation-owned Guerrilla Games, LEGO Horizon Adventures debuted for the PS5, Switch, and PC in mid-November 2024, and seems to have underperformed commercially.



An Xbox version of LEGO Horizon Adventures is in the works, according to a recently emerged report. The game’s purported Xbox port is reportedly planned for release in the immediate future.

Although developed by Sony subsidiary Guerrilla Games in collaboration with Studio Gobo, LEGO Horizon Adventures is already available on non-PlayStation platforms, having been treated to a day-one release on both the Nintendo Switch and PC. Neither Guerrilla nor PlayStation have yet given any indication that even more versions of the game are in the works.

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The possibility of a LEGO Horizon Adventures Xbox port was raised in a December 15 report by Algerian news outlet Just Play It. In addition to claiming that the game is on its way to Xbox, JPI asserts that its debut on Microsoft’s consoles is only a few months away at most, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. LEGO Horizon Adventures could hence reach Xbox consoles between December 2024 and early 2025, the report concludes.



LEGO Horizon Adventures Has Seemingly Underperformed at Launch

Although JPI doesn’t have a substantial track record of credible leaks to speak of, its report gained some legitimacy after being picked up by Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, who was the first to report on the existence of LEGO Horizon Adventures back in May 2024. JPI speculates that an Xbox version of the game could be Sony’s response to its seemingly lackluster launch sales. According to data scraped by SteamDB, LEGO Horizon Adventures peaked at 602 concurrent players on Valve’s platform following its mid-November 2024 debut. As such, its PC launch seems to have gone even worse than Concord‘s, making it likely that Sony’s sales targets for the game—no matter what they were—weren’t met.


Be that as it may, it’s dubious whether the game’s purported Xbox version could truly be motivated by its lackluster commercial performance. If JPI’s prediction of an early 2025 launch is accurate, the Xbox port was likely greenlit long before LEGO Horizon Adventures was released and flopped.

Seeing a first-party PlayStation game reach Xbox consoles would be unusual, but not entirely unprecedented. The annual entries in the MLB The Show series, developed by Sony-owned San Diego Studio, have been available on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S since 2021. All of them were even day-one Xbox Game Pass releases, even though Sony had nothing to do with that decision. Instead, it was MLB Advanced Media—an MLB subsidiary responsible for publishing the Xbox Versions—who opted to put San Diego Studio’s baseball games on Microsoft’s subscription service.

Sources: Insider Gaming, SteamDB

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