Gears of War Could Make it to PlayStation 4

We’ve seen this headline time and time again before, but it’s never come to anything. The relationship between Epic and Microsoft on Gears of War has been fruitful for both parties, but the hope that the sci-fi shooter would someday make it to Sony consoles has been around as long as the PlayStation 3 has. And why not? They’re great games.

It’s possible. Outside of a kind of exclusive loyalty to Microsoft (and outside of any financial talks that might be happening behind closed doors), there’s nothing actually stopping Epic from going multi-plat.

The subject was brought up with Phil Spencer in an interview with Kotaku.

It’s Epic’s franchise. You and I both know that. I can’t make any assurances about anybody else’s franchise. I’m a huge fan of the franchise. I want to continue to work with Gears. I think there’s a lot of life left in that franchise. We had an internal discussion on it even yesterday. It’s something that’s active in discussion about what we can do with Gears. Obviously, I know [Epic’s management] Tim Sweeney, Mark Rein, Jay Wilbur incredibly well, so nothing to announce yet and I’d say, yes, there’s nothing even pending that I’m holding to announce, but I understand the importance of the franchise to the Xbox platform and to gamers—I’d say gamers first. It’d be great to do something forward with that franchise.

It’s not a confirmation, but more a clarification that it could happen, although it would seem Microsoft are keen to keep Gears of War so long as the fans are happy buying it.