Indiana Jones will be exclusive to PC and Xbox

Are you a fan of the most famous film archaeologist, have a PlayStation 5 at home and hope to play the upcoming Indian Jones game from MachineGames and Bethesda, despite the fact that Bethesda is now owned by Microsoft? So you can stop hoping.

The start of a federal lawsuit between the US Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft, which is just one of many aftermath of Microsoft’s attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, has shown that Indiana Jones from the creators of later installments of the Wolfenstein series, produced by Todd Howard. by Bethesda Game Studios (The Elder Scrolls saga, latest Fallouts) it will only be released on PC and Xbox.

Previously, there were rumors that Indiana Jones could avoid Microsoft’s attempts to make every new Bethesda game exclusive to its ecosystem. And that’s simply because Bethesda signed a deal to develop a new Indy game with Disney, which owns Lucasfilm, as custodian of the entire Indiana Jones brand, before Microsoft acquired Bethesda and parent company ZeniMax Media. It was again during the FTC litigation confirmed head of marketing at Bethesda Pete Hines. The latter, in response to a question from a FTC lawyer, stated that the original contract called for the game to be released on multiple consoles.. But the problem is that after the completion of the acquisition, the deal with Disney and Lucasfilm was changed..

The result of this modification is, of course, a console exclusivity for the Xbox. What is the reason for the change? Hines said Bethesda entered the deal as a small independent publisher, but now the company is in a very different position under Microsoft.. Which is quite ridiculous explanationsince Bethesda, as a company that owns such strong brands as The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein or DOOM, and which has been holding its conference at the traditional E3 exhibition for several years in a row, may hardly considered a small publisher.

The trial was also supposed to take place announcement that Microsoft’s plan to release selected Bethesda games not only on PlayStation but also on Nintendo consoles remains in place. But Indiana Jones is just one of many reasons why we shouldn’t put too much faith in something like this at the moment. Currently, it looks like Microsoft just lied by acquiring ZeniMax and Bethesda.. After all, too promised to honor all commitments and agreements entered into prior to completion of the acquisition. And now we learn that just after the buyout, the deal that originally included a multi-platform release was changed only to give Xbox another exclusivity.

Unsurprisingly, this is a pretty nasty situation from the point of view of Sony and PlayStation users, so we can assume that poor Indy will become another argument in the endless debate between Sony and Microsoft fans. In the same time it’s a brand with a history going back several decades, when no one at Lucasfilm was too picky about platforms for new games..

And before someone in the comments under this article pulls, for example, Spider-Man from Insomniac Games, we would like to point out one important difference – Marvel once foolishly sold part of the rights to Spider-Man to Sony, which may still now do with him on the playing field almost everything that comes to mind. However, Disney did not sell the rights to Indy to anyone.. In a sense, this means that we can blame Disney and Lucasfilm for the current situation, where both companies even allowed an additional modification of the contract with Bethesda at the initiative of Microsoft. After all, they have already allowed the release of the upcoming remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic only on PC and PS5, although it was originally a series intended primarily for the original Xbox. In addition, Sony should partially finance the development of the remake.

In any case, it now seems that Microsoft – as well as Sony – is determined to enter into an ongoing war of consoles and acquisitions, despite the corpses of those who were at the opening of the Ark of the Covenant. And this the possible sequels to the decade-long and historically fundamentally multi-platform series that we mentioned a few paragraphs above are by no means guaranteed to be released on multiple consoles..

We remind you that Indiana Jones by MachineGames and Bethesda has no final title or release date yet. The game, which was officially announced in development in early 2021, should offer us an original story from when Indy was at the top.

However, it should be noted that not all games currently under Microsoft have a clear fate. The IGN server, for example, drew attention to the statement of the head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty, who said that regarding the possibility of releasing an RPG The Outer Worlds 2 from Obsidian and in the PlayStation version is yet to be decided.