Microsoft’s big Xbox hit, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, debuts on Sony’s PlayStation 5 on April 17.

It’s part of Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer’s strategy to take “Xbox everywhere” and debut even the biggest exclusives on the Xbox platform on other platforms. This has been controversial for gamers who wonder why they ever bought Xbox hardware, but that’s part of the trade-off. There have been endless debates on social media about how Microsoft should keep the crown jewels like its Indiana Jones game as a reward for its loyal Xbox fans. It so happens that Indiana Jones was my favorite game of 2024.

But Sony has a much larger audience of PlayStation fans who are willing to pay Microsoft to play the game. Plus, Microsoft has already had a six-month window of exclusivity for Xbox/Windows.

Since Sony has a larger installed based and a dedicated crop of hardcore gamers, this kind of game from Microsoft’s Bethesda studio could do even better on the PS5 than it did on the Xbox Series X/S. And that helps Microsoft reinvest its profits in bigger and better games for Xbox in the future.

Microsoft has a collector’s edition with cool stuff and will include Indiana Jones downloadable content, dubbed The Order of Giants, for the Sony edition. I like this game a lot, as it was my favorite game of 2024.

I liked the hilarious trailer with Troy Baker, who voiced Indiana Jones for the game, and Nolan North, who voiced Sony’s signature adventure game Uncharted with the lead character Nathan Drake. Baker and North banter about joining forces.

North represents the best of action-adventure gaming on the PlayStation, while Baker and the Indiana Jones game have set a new bar for the genre on the Xbox.