As a longtime gamer who’s seen the rise and fall of many platforms, I must say, Microsoft’s strategy with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has me intrigued. It’s like they’re playing a game of chess, moving their pieces strategically, one move at a time.
Starting today, December 9th, the highly anticipated Xbox exclusive game “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle” is now available for everyone who owns an Xbox, a PC, or has a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Unfortunately, PlayStation 5 users will have to wait until Spring 2025 to get their hands on this adventure game. In a recent interview, Matt Booty, President of Xbox’s game content and studios, explained Microsoft’s reasons for releasing Xbox games on competing platforms.
On a title-by-title basis, we’re carefully deciding matters of exclusivity and release timing for each game. This is a stance that Xbox leaders, including myself (Booty), have expressed previously.
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Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head of gaming, stated that each of their numerous studios finds themselves in slightly distinct situations regarding exclusivity. Moreover, he didn’t delve into specifics about how this applies to the situation. As for when a game might appear on rival platforms after Xbox, the choice must take into account the production schedules, according to Spencer.
“We want to make sure there’s a great experience for our Xbox players, and then the gap between [when it becomes available on PlayStation] is as much a production decision as it is anything else. This is a game that was in production before we acquired Bethesda, even,” Booty said.
In 2020, Microsoft made the announcement that they were set to purchase ZeniMax Media, the corporation that oversees Bethesda Softworks (also known as Machine Games’ parent company), and the transaction was finalized in 2021.
Following the acquisition of ZeniMax by Microsoft, they accepted that making certain Bethesda games exclusive to Xbox, such as Starfield and The Great Circle, could result in significant losses in game sales – potentially totaling in millions. At the time, Microsoft expressed their intention to counterbalance this loss through increased Game Pass subscriptions and boosted hardware sales.
By February 2024, Microsoft announced that Game Pass had amassed 34 million members. However, they’ve yet to disclose an updated number since then. We do know that the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 significantly increased subscribers. As for Xbox consoles sales, according to a US-based video game research firm Circana, sales for both the Xbox Series X|S dropped by 18% in October 2024 compared to the same month in 2023. It’s important to note that PS5 and Switch sales also saw a decrease during this period within the US market.
The game “The Great Circle” is set to arrive on PS5 in Spring 2025, although Microsoft has not specified a release date or provided further details about the PlayStation version of the game as of now. If you’re interested, don’t forget to check out TopMob’s review of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and consult our guides hub for tips on getting started.
In the previous year, a few games from Microsoft, such as Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush, have made their way to PlayStation (and Nintendo Switch in certain instances). For quite some time now, Minecraft by Microsoft has been available on both PlayStation and Switch.
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2024-12-09 18:39