Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is now confirmed to be arriving on PS5 in spring 2025, not long after it initially releases later this year as a timed exclusive. That was set in stone – following plenty of reports and rumoursduring yesterday’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, and now Xbox boss Phil Spencer’s said some thing about what went into the decision to bring the game to Sony’s consoles.

Obviously, this is all a part of Xbox’s ongoing plans to do more multiplatform things, as outlined in that podcast earlier this year, with Grounded, Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush, and Pentiment, having all been brought to fresh platforms so far.

During one of Microsoft’s Gamescom 2024 livestreams, Spencer was asked about the whole Jones on PS5 thing. Acknowledging that those four games outlined above made the jump as part of Xbox doing some “learning”, the exec said he’s seen Xbox’s “franchises are getting stronger” and “Xbox console player [numbers] are as high this year as they’ve ever been.”

Read more