Xbox Games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft, and Forza Horizon 5 Top Sony’s PS5 Sales Charts

Microsoft’s multiplatform strategy is intelligibly paying disconnected erstwhile it comes to launching connected PlayStation 5 arsenic good arsenic Xbox Series X and S and PC.

Confirmation comes from Sony itself, via a PlayStation blog station that revealed the top-selling PlayStation Store games for April 2025.

In the U.S. and Canada, the apical 3 spots connected PS5's non free-to-play download illustration were each taken by Microsoft games: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft, and Forza Horizon 5.

It was a akin concern successful Europe, with Forza Horizon 5 connected top, followed by The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, past Minecraft.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which Microsoft backed by signing a woody for a day-one Game Pass motorboat arsenic good arsenic an quality successful Xbox showcase broadcasts, besides appeared precocious up connected some charts.

And let’s not hide Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, from Microsoft-owned Activision, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, from Microsoft-owned Bethesda, some of which look successful the charts.

What does this archer us? That bully games, whether they travel from Microsoft oregon otherwise, apical the income charts. That’s possibly nary surprise. It’s besides nary astonishment to spot these games bash good connected PlayStation. The PS5 was screaming retired for a crippled similar Playground’s fantastic racer, Forza Horizon 5, truthful its April motorboat connected the console was hotly anticipated. Then there’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, which is scratching that Bethesda itch crossed PC and console, and the eternally fashionable Minecraft, adjacent much fashionable present with the Minecraft movie going viral and breaking records.

This is present the caller mean for Microsoft, which conscionable announced Gears of War: Reloaded for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation coming successful August. It seems inevitable that Halo, what was erstwhile the flagship Xbox exclusive, volition besides marque the jump.

Last year, Microsoft’s gaming main Phil Spencer said determination were nary “red lines” successful its first-party lineup erstwhile it comes to going multiplatform — and that included Halo. Speaking to Bloomberg, Spencer said each Xbox crippled is up for grabs erstwhile it comes to making the multiplatform jump. “I bash not spot benignant of reddish lines successful our portfolio that accidental ‘thou indispensable not,’ ” helium said.

Spencer has said Xbox’s multiplatform propulsion is successful portion astir bringing successful much wealth to Microsoft’s gaming concern — with the unit connected to present pursuing its eye-watering $69 cardinal acquisition of Call of Duty shaper Activision Blizzard.

“We tally a business,” Spencer said successful August. “It’s decidedly existent wrong of Microsoft the barroom is precocious for america successful presumption of the transportation we person to springiness backmost to the company. Because we get a level of enactment from the institution that’s conscionable astonishing and what we’re capable to spell do.

“So I look astatine this, however tin we marque our games arsenic beardown arsenic possible? Our level continues to grow, connected console, connected PC, and connected cloud. It’s conscionable going to beryllium a strategy that works for us.”

As erstwhile Xbox enforcement Peter Moore told IGN past year, bringing Halo to PlayStation volition person been a taxable of treatment astatine Microsoft for immoderate time.

“Look, if Microsoft says, wait, we're doing $250 cardinal connected our ain platforms, but if we past took Halo as, let's telephone it a third-party, we could bash a billion… You got to deliberation agelong and hard astir that, right?” Moore said.

“I mean, you conscionable got to go, yeah, should it beryllium kept? It's a portion of intelligence property. It's bigger than conscionable a game. And however bash you leverage that? Those are the conversations that ever hap with, however bash you leverage it successful everything that we would do?

“It's had its ups and downs, but look, Xbox wouldn't beryllium what Xbox is without Halo. But yeah, I'm definite those conversations are happening. Whether they travel to fruition, who knows? But they're decidedly happening, I'm sure.”

Microsoft does look a imaginable backlash from hardcore Xbox fans who are already disgruntled aft what they consciousness is simply a devaluing of the Xbox arsenic a console, the deficiency of exclusives, and Microsoft’s selling strategy for its gaming business. Losing Halo to PlayStation could spark yet different aggravated response, but Moore told IGN that won’t deter Microsoft from doing what’s close for its business.

“The question would be, ultimately, is that absorption capable not to marque a cardinal concern determination for the aboriginal of not lone Microsoft’s business, but gaming successful itself?” Moore said. “Those hardcore are getting smaller successful size and older successful age. You've got to cater to the generations that are coming through, due to the fact that they're going to thrust the concern implicit the adjacent 10, 20 years.”

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].