Viewers of Gamescom's Opening Night Live may have been surprised by the announcement that Machine Games' Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PlayStation 5 in Spring 2025, especially considering Xbox head Phil Spencer did not mention Indiana Jones as one of the Xbox exclusives coming to PlayStation earlier this year.
In February, Spencer revealed four Xbox exclusives were coming to PlayStation. These games ended up being Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded and Sea of Thieves. While some are claiming that Spencer 'lied' about Indiana Jones, that's not quite true, he merely neglected to mention Indiana Jones.
During Gamescom's Xbox live-stream, Spencer gave his thoughts on Indiana Jones coming to Xbox. "What I see when I look is that our franchises are getting stronger, our Xbox console players this year are as high as they've ever been, so I look it and I say, our player numbers are going up for the console platform, our franchises are as strong as they've ever been - and we run a business," Spencer began.
"It's definitely true inside of Microsoft that the bar is high for us in terms of the delivery we have to give back to the company,...
