Xbox's 'Mythic Achievement' Trophy Clone Reportedly Leaks Online
A new report says Xbox's long-rumored answer to the Platinum Trophy, called Mythic Achievements, has surfaced in leaked detail. Microsoft has said nothing official yet.
Somewhere in Redmond, someone is presumably drafting the celebratory blog post, the one that will describe an entirely new idea for rewarding players who finish everything a game asks of them, and somewhere in a PlayStation trophy list from roughly a decade ago, that idea is already sitting there, gleaming, faintly amused.
According to a report from TrueAchievements, relayed by Polygon, Xbox's answer to the Platinum Trophy has leaked in detail ahead of any formal unveiling. The system is reportedly called Mythic Achievements, and it works, TrueAchievements says, exactly as you would expect if you have ever owned a PlayStation: players unlock the Mythic once they have earned every one of a game's base achievements, with challenges added later through DLC or patches left out of the count. It is, in other words, a Platinum Trophy with a different name stitched onto the same garment, and nobody involved in reporting it seems inclined to pretend otherwise.
This outlet covered the earlier version of this story on the 19th, when an insider first floated the possibility that Xbox might finally build its own version of the achievement Sony players have been chasing since the PlayStation 3 era; you can find that piece, Xbox May Get Its Own Platinum Trophy, Insider Claims, for the earlier stage of the rumor. What has changed since is specificity, not confirmation: TrueAchievements' report, as carried by Polygon, describes mechanics rather than merely gesturing at intent, but Microsoft itself has offered no statement, no blog post, and no acknowledgment that Mythic Achievements exists at all. Treat the details as a leak that happens to be unusually detailed, not as an announcement wearing a disguise.
One does recall, of course, that Xbox has floated grand unifying gestures before, entire ecosystems promised and quietly reorganized before the first anniversary; a trophy system copied wholesale from the rival console is at least a modest enough ambition that it might actually survive contact with a release calendar. Whether it does depends on Microsoft deciding, at some point, to say the words itself. Until then, the players earning these Mythics will be finishing games in a system that Sony finished designing a long time ago, under a new name, waiting for the paperwork to catch up.