Last year, Microsoft released Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for Xbox and PC. While the game was celebrated at the time, it failed to reach the peak of the sales charts. Interestingly, with the game now available on PS5, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has managed to top the weekly sales charts for the first time.
As reported by industry analyst Matt Piscatella of Circana via BlueSky, “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was the best-selling video game in the US during week ending April 19th, following its PS5 launch”. Adding further context, Piscatella continued, “It was the first time the title reached #1 on the weekly charts.”
Of course, this is not to say that the game failed during its initial launch, with Microsoft confirming earlier this year that the game has exceeded 4 million players.
It’s worth noting that being a first-party Xbox game, Indiana Jones was available day-one on Game Pass PC / Ultimate, likely impacting its placement on the Circana charts (due to its use of Dollar sales as the metric for calculations).
Even so, it is interesting to see Microsoft’s first-party Xbox titles in some ways perform better on PlayStation than their own system. That said, more sales for Indiana Jones is a win for Microsoft, no matter the platform of choice.
It will be interesting to see how Forza Horizon 5 performs on PS5 when it launches soon.
KitGuru says: Did you pick up Indiana Jones on PS5? How many copies do you think it sold prior to the PS5 version’s launch? Will Forza be their biggest game yet on PS5? Let us know your thoughts down below.
