As of last week, it's also officially passed 3 million units sold on the console, putting it ahead of 2024's Game of the Year-winning Astro Bot; Alinea Analytics expects Team Asobi's platformer to hit that milestone "by the end of the summer." Microsoft's business strategy with Xbox has increasingly emphasized multiplatform releases and features, with the "This is an Xbox" ad campaign, the upcoming Xbox Ally handhelds, a renewed focus on Xbox Play Anywhere, the growth of Xbox Cloud Gaming, and, of course, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate all coming to mind. Though the overall performance of all of these games on PS5 was mixed, Sea of Thieves and Grounded were quite successful; the former sold 2 million copies on the platform as of late March, with Grounded achieving 432,200, leading to Microsoft briefly taking over the PlayStation Store.
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Published at: 2025-07-23 23:00:00
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