Games That Coming to Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5

With a new wave of hardware, gaming technology advancements, but that’s not always obvious on launch day. New consoles are usually paired with a mediocre launch game slate, with developers taking time to take full advantage of modern hardware. Although Tetris on the Game Boy, Halo on the original Xbox, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Switch are some standout launch titles that will still be remembered, very few consoles have come with more than one or even two games deserving of being named device vendors.

With the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S  and Sony’s PlayStation 5 next week, considering the great-looking Tetris Effect: Linked port, the all-new Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and the Demon’s Souls remake, to name a few, that’s planning to stay largely real. But there’s one upside here that can’t be denied: this is the first time you can take your current library, whether physical or digital and carry it to a new device with you in modern console history.

This gives players unparalleled flexibility to determine where they want to play and what efficiency advantages are worth updating to. And technology such as cross-platform play and now even cross-generation support would allow individuals who do not update to continue to play with their mates.

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Yes, both consoles come seven years after the previous iteration of console hardware, within days of another. Both have just a tiny handful of titles that can be considered next-gen experiences genuinely. Most are merely remasters or titles of cross-generation with small bumps in output. The small encouraging news is that to fill the void better, there are also a few big-name franchise launches. With Black Ops Cold War coming the same week as the unveiling of new consoles, Call of Duty is an obvious one. The same is true in Valhalla, the current Assassin’s Creed.

But the even better news is that Sony and Microsoft have promised to help close to any game in the libraries of current console consoles, in addition to 4 K and solid-state drives and other spec updates. Each Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One game that is currently playable on existing Xbox One hardware (minus Kinect games) will be playable on the X / S Series. At the same time, Sony is committed to maintaining “the vast majority” of over 4,000 PS4 games.

Concerning purchasing a new console, this changes the equation a little. You don’t have to leave what you played on your old computer anymore and start over again. And due to some truly consumer-friendly efforts such as Xbox Smart Distribution and related update plans, many of the games we already buy or expect to purchase in the next few months will not only work on the new consoles but will also come with free updates from the standard PS4 and Xbox One models in most situations. Sony is also launching the PlayStation Plus Series, a library of free online PS4 titles.

One major dilemma that leaves us with: how do you know what new games are coming out on which platforms and when? There’s also the painstaking parsing method on whether a gaming company gives away a free next-gen update of a cross-gen title, charges a little more, or launches a next-gen-only game.

We also assembled an extensive list covering all-new console platform launch slates on day one and rolling out in this holiday season and beyond 2021.

It will have 30 entirely optimized titles that will officially count as launch games when the Xbox Series X releases on November 10th. Two days later, on 12 November, the PS5 will be released, and it will have 20 players. (This covers only completely updated games and not what is strictly backward compatibility enabled. The list also excludes games such as Sony’s Ghost of Tsushima that can but are still not fully optimized, benefit from next-gen hardware.)

Here’s a list of games released on both platforms every day, especially missing titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, which will start shortly after launch day and will not be available by 12 November. Often, despite having been published on other systems such as the Nintendo Switch in the previous decade, certain titles are noted as console exclusives; we only concentrate on when a title is exclusive to either the PS5 or Xbox Series X / S, and timed console exclusives are regarded as first-party permanent exclusives before a publisher or producer has a clear cross-platform release date to share.

This includes games that may have been previously released without release dates, such as Elder Scrolls VI and the Fable remake, for instance, and games previously available in the above table. We also decided to list release dates only for games for which the publisher decided a particular date for both the day and the month.

The announced launch day lists touch the forthcoming PS5 and Xbox Series X game libraries’ surface. There are hundreds of more titles on the way in the weeks after release. And 2021 is filled with new updates and complete cross-gen game optimizations that can further pad out what is possible to enjoy on your new device of choice. We have assembled the list below to help you appreciate each game coming out during the holiday season of this year and what has been reported for 2021 so far.

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