Xbox wades cautiously into a multiplatform future | Opinion

Back in February, Microsoft ended a few torrid weeks of swirling speculation (not helped by its own cryptic pre-announcement of a forthcoming announcement) when it revealed that four of its formerly exclusive games – Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded – would be launching on other platforms.At the time, the company stressed the point that these were older games, each having launched more than a year previously, and highlighted Starfield and MachineGames’ upcoming Indiana Jones title as exclusives that were not included in the announcement.Nonetheless, it would have taken a bit of wilful delusion not to anticipate that this was only the beginning of a broader strategic turn – and sure enough, at Gamescom this week the other shoe finally dropped, with a Spring 2025 launch date on PS5 being announced for Indiana Jones and the Golden Circle, just a few months after the early December launch on Xbox and PC. Read more
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