Just a few days after the return of Indiana Jones to movie theaters, we get a substantial update on his long-announced and not-forgotten return to video games: the project in the hands of Bethesda and MachineGames will be an exclusive for Xbox and PC consoles, coming from launch to Game Pass. In other words, don’t count on dishing out lashes with the DualSense on PS5.
Although we have been able to see Indy on the banners of Bethesda and Xbox Game Studios games, until now they had not been officially announced on which systems their new video game would be available. Moreover, the way of confirming it has also been quite peculiar, since we have learned of a rebound during the process on the purchase of Activision Blizzard.
More specifically, this confirmation came to us through the statements of Pete Hines, Bethesda’s global publisher, in responding to the FTC on why Disney’s original agreement with Bethesda, which called for the release of Indiana Jones on various platforms, It was modified after the acquisition of Microsoft and its incorporation into the Xbox studios.
Hines’ response, according to can be read on The Vergeis that they killed two birds with one stone: the risks were eliminated [entendemos que comerciales y de desarrollo] of video games and so it was possible launch it on Xbox Game Pass premiere.
In my opinion, the main [motivo] is what I said about reducing risk and trying to get to a degree of safety
Also, you’re dealing with a license owner who’s going to get a lot of feedback about what you’re doing, so you have to add a huge amount of time to the deadlines.
Bethesda already addressed this same issue not too long ago: it was originally planned that games like Redfall would come to PlayStation, and they admitted that after the purchase of Microsoft it was a relief for them to be able to carry out the project and launch it on Game Pass without having to be concerned about the risks inherent in taking it to another platform.
It goes without saying that these types of decisions are not taken so lightly. However, it is also fair to keep in mind that the turbulent development of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, which should be an exclusive for PS5 with another of the great LucasFilm Games (and Disney) licenses, is being very complicated. precisely because of the deadlines, the budgets and the not so good feedback that its creators received from the licensees.
However, in the end we are in the same position: after being announced in the summer of 2021, we have hardly had any news about the video game of Indiana Jones from Bethesda or a small tentative release date. Although, who knows? Perhaps the FTC will make the hare jump these days.
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