Xbox boss Phil Spencer says ‘The end result has to be better games that more people can play’ following Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s PS5 announcement

Indiana Jones is now a timed-exclusive

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Perhaps the biggest announcement of Gamescom Opening Night Live,Indiana Jones and the Great Circlehas officially beenconfirmed for PlayStation 5after previously being set to launch as an Xbox and PC exclusive title. Now, CEO ofMicrosoftGaming Phil Spencer has explained the surprise release, calling it a business move for the company.

During theMicrosoft Gamescom livestream, Spencer was asked what the decision to bringIndiana JonestoPS5could mean for future Xbox releases in relation to its ongoing multiplatform push, which recently saw the likes ofPentiment,Grounded,Hi-Fi Rush, andSea of Thievesmake their way to more platforms.

“Obviously, last spring welaunched four games, two of them on the Switch, four of them on PlayStation, and we said we were gonna learn,” Spencer said. “We said we’d watch. I think at Showcase, I might have said, from our learning, we’re gonna do more.

“What I see, when I look, our franchises are getting stronger. Our Xbox console players are as high this year as they’ve ever been. So I look at it and I say, okay, our player numbers are going up for the console platform. Our franchises are as strong as they’ve ever been.”

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Spencer continued, alluding that the multi-platform push is also part of bringing more money intoMicrosoftfollowing the publisher’s$69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

“We run a business,” he said. “It’s definitely true inside of Microsoft the bar is high for us in terms of the delivery we have to give back to the company because we get a level of support from the company that’s just amazing and what we’re able to go do.

“So I look at this [as], how can we make our games as strong as possible? Our platform continues to grow, on console, on PC, and on cloud. I think it’s just going to be a strategy that works for us.”

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circlewill launch as a timed exclusive on December 9 forXbox Series X|S and PC, before coming to PS5 in Spring 2025.

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