Summary

• Recent rumors about Hellblade 2 coming to PS5 are false, according to Microsoft insider Jez Corden.
• Phil Spencer announced four Xbox titles were coming to Nintendo and PlayStation, but there has been no mention of Hellblade 2.
• Hellblade 2 remains an Xbox exclusive for now and is touted as one of Xbox's biggest releases of 2024.

An Xbox insider has responded to recent rumors that have claimed Ninja Theory is porting Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 to the PlayStation 5. Reports of more Xbox-exclusive titles going multi-platform have become more common since Xbox CEO, Phil Spencer, announced four of the platform's first-party games would also be going to Nintendo and PlayStation devices.

In early February, prior to Spencer's multi-platform announcement, The XboxEra Podcast's Nick Baker suggested that Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 and Starfield would be among the Xbox-exclusive titles coming to other platforms, and the rumors surrounding a Hellblade 2 PS5 port resurfaced during the latest, March 9 episode of the Xbox Infinite Podcast, in which host Riskit4TheBiskit made these claims citing "four separate sources." A day later, responding to a post by Idle Sloth on X, Microsoft insider and Managing Editor at Windows Central, Jez Corden, promptly dismissed this rumor, stating that "as of right now, [it] is completely false."

Hellblade 2 Coming To PS5 At Launch Was Unlikely

Xbox's Multi-Platform Releases Haven't Been New Titles

Although Spencer didn't reveal it at the time, it is now known that the four Xbox titles that have gone multi-platform as part of the company's new strategy are Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush. At the time, Spencer debunked rumors surrounding Starfield and Indiana Jones and The Great Circle going multi-platform for now, although there was no mention of Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2.

Spencer stated that the titles Microsoft considered for multiplatform release were over a year old, with a couple of them being community-driven, enabling Microsoft to continue to invest and build upon them, likely referencing Grounded and Sea of Thieves, the latter of which is the most pre-ordered game on PlayStation at the time of writing. None of the titles in question were launch exclusives, so even if the multiplatform strategy does seem to be a success - and it is shaping up to be - Xbox will likely keep some of its big AAA titles such as Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 as timed exclusives at least.

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is being marketed as one of Microsoft's biggest console exclusives of 2024, and won't be out on Xbox Series S/X and PC until late May. Therefore, even if Microsoft and Ninja Theory do look to bring the game to PlayStation at some point, it won't be for quite some time.

Sources: Nick Baker/X, Riskit4TheBiskit/YouTube, Idle Sloth/X, Jez Corden/X