Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, one of this year’s big releases on Xbox, may also be headed to the PlayStation 5 under a rumored initiative at
Rumors have been in circulation for weeks that Microsoft might publish some of its exclusive games on competing consoles. Now a new report indicates that one of the most anticipated Xbox games of 2024 may also be a cross-platform release.
The Verge reported over the weekend that Microsoft is exploring the possibility of publishing a new game made by its Bethesda subsidiary, Indiana Jones and the Grand Circle, for Sony’s PlayStation 5, its primary competitor in the console market. We’ve reached out to Microsoft for comment.
This joins persistent rumors throughout January that Microsoft was already planning to bring a couple of its other console exclusives, such as Tango Gameworks’ Hi-Fi Rush, to the PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
Were this to go through, this would be approximately on par with the idea of Hulu licensing its original programming to Netflix or Disney+. There aren’t many precedents for this sort of move in the console gaming space.
That being said, this isn’t a particularly strange move for Microsoft, which has published Minecraft for every platform under the sun since it bought Mojang Studios in 2014. That includes its console rivals Nintendo and Sony, as well as iOS and Android. Minecraft is such a monolith in modern video games that it can be hard to remember that someone actually owns it — it just sort of exists, like mountains or the moon — but Microsoft has already been a cross-platform video game publisher for almost a decade.
