So I REALLY riled up Xbox console obsessives yesterday, hey? I got literal death threats - the most I've had so far - and claims that I hate Xbox, for saying E-Day should come to PS5 (without also saying Saros and Wolverine should go multiplatform). Xbox is in a VERY different situation to PlayStation, and for the record: - Saros and Wolverine are single-player only. Gears is built around online Versus, co-op, and Horde, and E-Day's new Horde Siege is PvE. Those modes need a player base to stay alive, and more platforms = more players in lobbies. - I think multiplayer games should be multiplatform, full stop. That includes Helldivers 2, Marvel Tokon, Concord (lmao), E-Day, and anything multiplayer for PS Studios. Helldivers 2 going to Xbox was GREAT for that community, and I want that for Gears, too. Console warring, be damned. - Xbox already puts its games on Steam, which isn't the Xbox ecosystem either. If it's any consolation, I think Saros should come to Steam later, too. - A PS5 version of E-Day was almost done but cancelled. Meanwhile, Xbox is laying people off to cut costs, including at The Coalition, while sitting on a port that could make it money during this reset. - Gears isn't going to sell Xbox consoles. That ship has sailed, and it's never coming back. My view is that Xbox is keeping the faithful happy with a couple of sacrificial lambs now as the company moves them over to a unified Windows ecosystem via Helix. Sorry if that opinion annoys you, but that's my read. So yeah, I still think E-Day should come to PlayStation. And no, that isn't me picking a side in the cOnSoLe WaRs. I'm an analyst, I play games on all platforms, and I'm not part of that shite (unlike the death threat brigade). The nuts part is that I'm a pretty big Gears and Xbox fan. Hell, during the Activision Blizzard buyout negotiations, I actually consulted for Xbox. I own a Series X, and I'll be playing E-Day on it tomorrow. Not that it matters (or impacts my analysis, clearly), but I've actually enjoyed Xbox exclusives more than PlayStation ones this year. There's an Xbox game in my GOTY top 5 and no PlayStation ones, and now that I've played Wolverine, with nothing else Sony on the 2026 horizon, it'll stay that way. Xbox is clearly shifting away from console and towards other ecosystems, and I think Gears should be part of that. Hilariously, I've probably played more Xbox games than a lot of the death threat crew (71K+ gamerscore, cringe lol). Enough with the death threats lol.