Xbox Game Studios’ pirate-themed co-op multiplayer game Sea of Thieves was the best-selling game on the digital PlayStation Store in Europe last month.
According to the officialPlayStation Blog, the game was number 1 in its top 20 most downloadedPS5games in Europe for the month, not counting free-to-play titles.
In all, four of the top 10 games in Europe –Sea of Thieves,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,Groundedand Fallout 4 – are owned byMicrosoft.
In the US and Canada, Sea of Thieves charted third, behindHelldivers 2andStellar Blade. It was joined in the top 10 by fellow Microsoft gamesModern Warfare3 and Grounded.
Sea of Thieves was originally released forXbox OneandPCin March 2018, when it became the first exclusive title from Microsoft to launch onXboxGame Pass day-and-date with its retail release.
The game was the last of four former Xbox console exclusives to be ported to other consolesas part of a February announcement.
Pentimentwas the first of the four games to be released, and is now available on PS5,SwitchandPS4. This was followed byHi-Fi Rush, which came to PS5 on March 19.
Third wasObsidian‘s co-op survival adventure Grounded, which was released on PS5, PS4 and Switch on April 16, with cross-play supported across all formats.
Finally, Sea of Thieves set sail on PS5 on April 30, and including cross-play support to enable new players to interact with the existing Xbox and PC players.
Last month Microsoft CEOSatya Nadellasuggested thatXbox was starting to reap the rewardsof its increased multiplatform focus.
“We are committed to meeting players where they are by bringing great games to more people on more devices”, Nadella said during an earnings call.
