The game, announced almost two and a half years ago, will not be coming to PlayStation 5, so we’ll be looking for the hat-wearing treasure hunter only on Xbox Series and PC.

The FTC vs. Microsoft case has already started (admittedly, it is not yet the weekend of hearings on the antitrust lawsuit, that will have to wait until August) so that the US Federal Trade Commission can win an injunction to prevent Microsoft from closing Activision Blizzard King’s acquisition. ZeniMax Media can no longer do so because the Redmond-based company has owned it for several years and thus owns Bethesda, including all the studios and IPs under it.

A statement from Pete Hines, Bethesda’s head of marketing and communications, writing in The Verge confirmed that the Indiana Jones game would be like an Xbox exclusive by default: no PlayStation 5 version, Xbox Series/PC/Game Pass release only, so Microsoft (after closing the $7.5 billion deal for ZeniMax) modified the deal with Lucasfilm Games (aka Disney) because it was initially a multiplatform game.

Why was Bethesda tempted by Xbox Game Pass? “In my view, the primary one is what I said about reducing risk and getting to a degree of certainty. You’re dealing with a licensor who’s going to have a ton of feedback on what you’re making, add a lot of time to your schedule,” Hines said of the original story-having game, which will be produced by Todd Howard, who is currently working on the final refinements to Starfield.

It’s undoubtful that the Indiana Jones game is the one that most of MachineGames are working on, so Wolfenstein III isn’t expected to be around these days after two spinoffs released in 2019, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, weren’t successful. There was a rumor in 2021 that the studio had another project in the works, but we still don’t know what that might be.

At least The Outer Worlds 2 could be multiplatform, according to Stephen Totilo of Axios, but Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty said they have yet to decide on exclusivity. Obsidian has released the first part for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch. But the publisher was not Bethesda, but Private Division under Take-Two…

Source: WCCFTech