🏆 PlayStation’s Platinum Trophy is widely considered more desirable than Xbox’s Achievement system, which has lagged behind in popularity
🙏 Xbox is finally planning to introduce an equivalent to the Platinum Trophy later this year
🥳 This update comes after user feedback requested a way to celebrate earning 100% in games
🔜 Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed the team is actively working on a solution to address this long-standing request.
Forget the DualSense controller or Tempest 3D Audio. One of the most appealing features of the PlayStation ecosystem is earning a Platinum Trophy. It’s an award that signifies you’ve earned every achievement, and for many, it’s become a huge draw over Microsoft’s Xbox Achievements.
Xbox may have pioneered Achievements, but Sony introduced Trophies later in the PS3’s lifecycle. Sony’s take has become more popular, but at long last, it seems like Microsoft will finally have an answer to the coveted Platinum Trophy.
Xbox revealed it is implementing some of the most requested features from the recently launched Xbox Feedback site, including the ability to record voice clips and party chat alongside gameplay captures.
Xbox is also introducing new ways to view Achievements, prompting one user on X to ask Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, “When [are] you gonna solve the Platinum trophy equivalent with Achievements?”.
Surprisingly, Sharma responded saying, “[The] Team is working on something for later this year!”
It may seem insignificant, but Microsoft’s Achievements system has long been viewed as inferior to Sony’s, even though Sony essentially copied the idea and refined it.
If Xbox finally introduces a Platinum Trophy equivalent, it'll close one of the few remaining gaps between its Achievements system and PlayStation's Trophies. More importantly, it continues Microsoft's recent trend of responding to player feedback as it builds toward the launch of its next-generation console, Project Helix, and the launch of the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition console.
Up next: Xbox 360 games are finally heading to PC and Project Helix, according to a leaked document
Adam Vjestica is The Shortcut’s Senior Editor. Formerly TechRadar’s Gaming Hardware Editor, Adam has also worked at Nintendo of Europe as a Content Marketing Editor, where he helped launch the Nintendo Switch. He also runs a retro gaming YouTube channel called Game on, boy! Follow him on X @ItsMrProducts.