Leaked via Xbox Brazil.
Welp, whoever said it was going to stop with XIV is looking pretty stupid now. Just one less classic IP PlayStation was able to hold onto. At this rate I think you should all expect XVI to appear on Xbox early 2024, maybe not even that far before Rebirth on PS5. And, you'll most likely get Rebirth on Xbox by the end of 2024.
Just seeing the gradual erosion of PlayStation's iron-clad association with JRPGs is...something. Still no mention of PS (or Nintendo) in ads for Persona 3 Remake and Metaphor. Very good chance Persona 6 could be Day 1 on both PS5 and Xbox Series (how wild will it be if it's Day 1 Game Pass but you're stuck paying $70+ on PlayStation?). An increasingly likely possibility future mainline Final Fantasy games are Day 1 on PS and Xbox (no more timed exclusivity for Sony). That's already in addition to Dragon Quest having been gone multiplat.
The Xbox fanatics will try shouting "But more people able to play it Day 1 is better!", ....yet clam up when people point to once-multiplat games and IP that were coming to PlayStation, now no longer going there due to Microsoft acquiring big 3P publishers. You don't see them ever bring up the fact Microsoft does just as many 3P timed exclusivity deals and Sony. Where are these people saying games like Ravenlok and STALKER 2 should be on all platforms Day 1? That the PS5 version of Starfield should not have been cancelled?
That's because it has never been about "more games for everybody". That was a ruse on the equally fraudulent pro-consumer mantra Phil Spencer and the rest of Xbox rode upon the past few years. It has always been about removing what makes PlayStation unique, from PlayStation for these people. It's also why they want more PS 1P ports to PC, even Day 1. It won't stop for them until PlayStation is like Xbox, except Xbox will also have many things PlayStation no longer does. That's the death of PlayStation.
And, well, Sony seem more than willing to help that right along. PlayStation 5, home of the timed exclusive 1P & 3P games with cheaper, better versions on PC months later. You can't even really fault Microsoft here: they are making plays and getting scores. It's Sony who seem asleep at the wheel.
But I'll wait until someone chimes in about record-breaking console sales (which were 1 million under target for the previous fiscal quarter, necessitating new pricing promotion and discounts BTW) mainly off momentum from 2018-2022 releases, of games created under pre-Jim Ryan/Herman Hulst leadership, to try disproving what's been said here.
Lol.