With Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, It's Clear Xbox Has Figured Out Exclusivity

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Peter Hunt Szpytek

Published Apr 21, 2025

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Console exclusives aren’t what they used to be. They used to be the reason to buy a console. ♑You want to play Halo? You need an Xbox. You want to see what’s up with Uncharted? Get a PlayStation. That model worked fo🐟r a long time to incentivize console sales, but as gaming has gotten more mainstream and game budgets have increased exponentially, the exclusivity model has limited success stories in the industry, not increased them.

It’s been clear that Xbox has struggled to find its footing in the current exclusive landscape for the past several years, but with the launch of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, it seems like the company might have struck go꧙ld.

Or maybe found a golden idol? Th💞e ‘Disc of Destiny’?

Console exclusivity as w𝓰e’ve known it might be a thing of the past, and it could be all thanks to Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones And The Timed Exclusive

Indy and Gina enters a wooden hut to find Aran in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launched on December 9, 2024, on Xbox and PC. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:It reviewed well with critics and . As far as creating something to drive console sales goes, The Great Circle was everything a publisher could want. The buzz surrounding the game was largely positive, so the types of people who feel compelled to play every game that’s at the center of the gaming conversation would have a reason to turn on their Xboxes or, even 🐈better in Microsoft’s eyes, go out and buy an Xbox just to play the game.

While the game was successful on Xbox and PC, the full range of its success hasn’t even been fully realized yet. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle finally launched this week on PlayStation 5and considering it was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:one of the PS5’s best-selling pre-🌄orders, it’s likely going to continue selling well, expanding its already vast playerbase even mor🎉e.

This release stra🥃tegy is really smart because it gave PlayStation fans two options. After the game launched and reviewed well, PlayStation owners could go buy an Xbox to play the game if they can’t stand the FOMO, or they can wait just a few months and buy the game once it launched on PlayStation. For Xbox, this is the best of both worlds when it comes to selling games to a wide audience and for using those games as an incentive to pick up a new Xbox.

The ‘Console Wars’ Are Finished

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle image showing the Nazi Villain Emmerich Voss.

This isn’t the first of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox’s first-party timed exclusives that later jumped to PlayStation. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hi-Fi Rush, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sea of Thieves, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pentiment, and Grounded all launched on 🏅PlayStation last year after being Xbox exclusives for over a year. While those games are all great, they felt like they were testing the water to see if there was an audience of PlayStation fans who would be interested in playing Xbox’s titles on their preferred platform.

Clearly, the t💮est worked, and now Indiana Jones is lea✤ding the way for a new type of Xbox exclusivity. First-party triple-A titles will launch first on Xbox platforms and then eventually make their way to PlayStation to reach a whole new audience. With Forza Horizon 5 coming to PlayStation just a few weeks after The Great Circle, it’s clear that Xbox is not interested in ignoring the PlayStation audience.

There are still some recent Xbox first-party games that haven’t been given the cross-platform promise, like Avowed and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:South of Midnight, but given how stro༺ng of a push we’ve seen with Xbox’s cross-platform offerings, it feels like just a matter of time before they’re on PlayStation’s storefront.

In Phil Spencer’s own words, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox “lost the worst generation𝄹 to lose”, so now it’s trying to figure out how to reach as many people as possible with the platform it has. Console exclusives have changed, and Xbox understands that by ꦕcutting out PlayStation fans, the company is cutting out a large portion of its potential audience.

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:‘console wars’ are over, and it seems like Xbox might have survived by hiding from the nuclear blasts 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in the Xbox Series X fridge.