An insider has reported thatMicrosoftis considering releasingIndiana Jones and the Great CircleonPS5a few months after it launches onXboxin December 2024.
After weeks of rumours that smaller Xbox exclusives like Hi-Fi Rushand Sea of Thievesare going to be coming to PS5 at some point this year, a new report has opened the floodgates by claiming that huge releases likeStarfield and potentially even Halo could be arriving on PlayStation in the near future.
Although that already raises a ton of eyebrows about what Xbox’s new strategy is, one of the biggest questions it brings to the table is about the fate of future games published by Xbox. The biggest one on the horizon is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,which was recently shown off for the first time at the most recent Xbox Developer Direct.
According to The Verge, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is “tentatively” set to release on the PS5, although if that does happen it sounds like it won’t be until a few months after it launches on Xbox. The Verge also reports that The Great Circle is currently planned to release in December of this year, which makes sense considering the Developer Direct only said that it would release in “2024”.
Interestingly, as pointed out by The Verge,Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was originally planned as a multiplatform gamebefore Xbox bought Microsoft, something revealed in the FTC’s court documents.
Xbox’s plans for some of its games going multiplatform sounds like it hasn’t quite been finalised yet, with Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves seeming like the only sure-fire bets right now, but if Indiana Jones and the Great Circle does end up joining them, then it’s said to have a “rather short period of exclusivity”. The details aren’t set in stone yet, but it’s said to be staying on Xbox for “a few months” before moving to PS5.
Microsoft hasn’t yet confirmed that it’s bringing any games to other platforms, but XboxEra’s report on the matter claimed that an announcement was going to be made in the coming weeks, so it shouldn’t be too long until we hear more. That being said, it sounds like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s fate hasn’t yet been decided by Xbox, so its release window on that console and on PS5 could still be changed before the end of the year is up.
