‘The industry is changing,’ says Phil Spencer on Indiana Jones’ PS5 release

Following a strategy that has translated into positive numbers, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the new great original Xbox which will also appear on the rival console, the PlayStation 5. Confirming rumors, the game will be a temporary exclusive on Microsoft’s console and PC. Scheduled for release on December 9th, the game will arrive on Microsoft’s console. Sony a little later, in 2025.

As reported by our fellow company, GameViciociting a live broadcast of Microsoft already Gamescom 2024the head of Xbox commented on the decision to bring the game to PlayStation.

“We said we would learn [lançando quatro jogos no ano passado]. We said we would watch. What I see when I look is that our franchises are getting stronger, our Xbox players are as high this year as they’ve ever been.”

New times, new approaches

Spencer emphasized that the industry is changing. And that these changes also involve new approaches to some issues, such as the distribution of titles:

“We run a business. That’s definitely true within Microsoft. The bar is set high for us in terms of the delivery we have to give back to the company. People are looking for ways to grow. The industry is changing.”

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“I think we as fans, as gamers, just have to anticipate that there will be more changes in how some of the traditional ways of building and distributing games, that’s going to change. The result has to be better games that more people can play.”he completed.

With this new bet, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle of Fire joins a list of other Microsoft titles that have ended up on PlayStation:

• Hi-Fi Rush;
• Pentiment;
• Sea of Thieves;
• Grounded.

Decisions like this help to understand the good numbers celebrated by Microsoft, as the 500 million monthly active users mark across all platforms and devices that Xbox is on. As Microsoft CEO Sayta Nadella emphasized when revealing this brand in July, “our content pipeline has never been stronger”, in addition to reinforcing that the decision to continue offering its IPs to new audiences will continue:

“Finally, we’re bringing our IP to new audiences. For example, Fallout made its debut as a TV show on Amazon Prime this quarter. It was the second most-watched title on the platform, and hours played on Game Pass for the Fallout franchise increased nearly 5x from the previous quarter.