Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5 next year, it’s claimed

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will reportedly be released for PS5 next year.

That’s according to industry insider Nate the Hate, who has a track record of breaking stories prior to their official announcement.

Ahead of a planned Indiana Jones showing at Gamescom Opening Night Live on Tuesday, they claimed that Bethesda’s title will hit PC and Xbox Series X/S in December as a timed console exclusive.

“After this timed-exclusive window expires, Indiana Jones & the Great Circle is planned to come to PlayStation 5 in the first half of 2025,” Nate the Hate wrote on X.

Reports that Microsoft was preparing to announce plans to bring another big Xbox exclusive to PS5 emerged last week. At the time, Windows Central claimed there was a “large” chance the rumoured announcement could be related to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

The Verge also claimed in February that Xbox was considering bringing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to PS5 in the months following the game’s release for Xbox and PC.

Announced in January 2021, Indiana Jones is in development at MachineGames, the Swedish studio behind the modern Wolfenstein titles.

While the game was originally planned as a multiplatform console release, it was later confirmed that it would be an Xbox and PC exclusive, and a day-one title on Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service.

The terms of Indiana Jones owner Disney’s agreement with Bethesda were renegotiated after Microsoft acquired the studio’s parent company, ZeniMax Media, for $7.5 billion in 2021.

Disney’s head of gaming, Sean Shoptaw, told Axios last year: With “Xbox still being one of the bigger marketplaces for games, we didn’t feel like we were going to be overly exclusionary. We felt like it’s still going to reach a broad set of folks, and we felt, financially and strategically for the game, that made sense at the time.”

While it already had a strong foothold on rival platforms thanks to perennial best-sellers Call of Duty and Minecraft, in February Xbox announced plans to bring additional titles to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, starting with Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves and Grounded.

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