Xbox is still angry that PlayStation is gatekeeping Bloodborne

The all-new PlayStation vs Xbox fight continues, as Microsoft carries on justifying its planned acquisition of Activision.

For anyone out of the loop, Sony has quite understandably been expressing its concern that buying out Activision would make Microsoft too powerful of a competitor (particularly since it’ll own the Call of Duty franchise if the deal goes through). What’s followed has been a whole load of back and forth arguments, including Microsoft claiming that PlayStation’s game’s are better than Xbox’s, and that Sony already has far more exclusive titles.

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Anyway, as reported by Windows Central, in Microsoft’s latest response to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the company pointed out how many desirable third-party games are PlayStation exclusives, and gave a few specific examples. It’s fair to say that there’s a few that the company are still feeling a bit salty about.

“In addition to having outright exclusive content, Sony has also entered into arrangements with third-party publishers which require the ‘exclusion’ of Xbox from the set of platforms these publishers can distribute their games on,” Microsoft’s response reads (via Windows Central), “Some prominent examples of these agreements include Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix), Bloodborne (FromSoftware), the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix) and the recently announced Silent Hill 2 remastered (Bloober Team).”

I’m sure Microsoft wouldn’t be the only ones happy if Bloodborne became multiplatform - the 2015 title is widely considered to be one of FromSoftware’s greatest games (if not the greatest). Many are still holding out for a new-gen remaster, but it sounds like if it were to happen, it’d still be a PlayStation exclusive.

What’s also interesting is the mention of Silent Hill 2 - we already knew that the remake was a timed PS5 console exclusive, but this new response seems to indicate that it won’t be going anywhere else beyond its PC release. It’s a shame, but definitely nothing that Xbox users aren’t already used to.

Topics: Fromsoftware, Microsoft, PlayStation, Sony, Xbox, Bloodborne