Summary
Xboxcommitting to releasing its games on other platforms must have been a difficult decision to make. The continued rollout of its exclusives onPS5will upset a lot of Xbox owners, but a quick look atPlayStation’s top-selling pre-orders will help drown out those complaints.
April will be a big month for Xbox exclusives arriving on PS5 withIndiana Jones and The Great Circlearriving on the rival platform on April 17, and thenForza Horizon 5following in the fictional archaeologist’s footsteps on April 29. The decision to release the Xbox exclusives on PS5 appears to have been a good one as those two games are the top two best-selling pre-orders on the PlayStation Store right now.
If you head tothe PlayStation Store’s pre-order section, the games available are sorted by best-sellers as a default. That’s why The Great Circle and Forza Horizon 5 are the first two games you’ll see. Technically the first four since their premium editions are up there too. Perhaps expected for Indy since pre-orders only just went live, but it’s particularly impressive for Forza to be holding firm a month after its PS5 pre-orders first became available.
PS5 Owners Really Want Xbox Games
The Evidence Is Right Here, It’s Undeniable
If you check out some of the other most sought-after pre-orders on PS5 right now, that the top two slots are occupied by Xbox games becomes even more impressive.The First Berserker: Khazanis the third best-selling pre-order, unsurprising considering it launches tomorrow, andDeath Stranding 2is right after it.
Indy and Forza’s pre-orders outpacing Death Stranding 2’s is the most surprising part of all this. The Death Stranding sequel is a PlayStation exclusive, and considering the hype behind itfollowing its release date reveal, you’d have thought it would be the best-selling unreleased game on PS5 right now. It seems, for now at least, PS5 owners are more interested in picking up a couple of incoming Xbox games.
If you weren’t already convinced that the PS5 Xbox port floodgates are well and truly open, this is unequivocal evidence that Xbox made the right decision. It has rolled the dice on making its exclusives available on other platforms, and clearly, people with PS5s want that. Evidence continues to surface suggestingStarfield will be ported to PS5in the future, and if Indy and Forza’s pre-order sales are anything to go by, it now feels inevitable that we’ll be playingHalogames on PlayStation consoles sooner rather than later.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
WHERE TO PLAY
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events ofRaiders of the Lost ArkandThe Last Crusade. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power known as the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them - Indiana Jones. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in this cinematic action-adventure game from MachineGames, the award winning studio behind the recent Wolfenstein series, and executive produced by Hall of Fame game designer Todd Howard.
Forza Horizon 5
With Forza Horizon 5, Playground Games takes its open-world racing game to a fictional version of Mexico, containing plenty of races, missions, and collectibles to be found. It adds local weather fronts for more diversity, more than 600 vehicles, and the return of the Eliminator battle royale mode.
