Rumours grow of Starfield, Indiana Jones & more Xbox games coming to PS5

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Hot on the heels of the leaked Hi-Fi Rush cross-platform cosmetics, there’s further reports and rumours that Microsoft are planning to bring more Xbox exclusive games to PlayStation 5 in the coming months and years, including Starfield, the upcoming Indiana Jones game, Halo and more.

Per reporting by XboxEra, Microsoft are planning to launch Starfield on PS5 sometime after the Shattered Space expansion is released on Xbox and PC – expected to arrive later this year. As part of this effort, Microsoft has invested in additional PS5 dev kits to support ongoing development units, beyond those that would have come to the company through the Bethesda and Activision Blizzard acquisitions.

Further to that, The Verge is also reporting that Microsoft is now considering bringing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to PlayStation 5 after the initial Xbox and PC release. This after all the hullabaloo of the original agreement with Disney having to be rewritten to allow them to publish it exclusively on Xbox – as revealed during the Activision Blizzard acquisition court cases – though this would theoretically still be a timed exclusive.

And if you thought this was all just going to be Bethesda’s games becoming timed exclusives, then you could be wrong. All of these are fresh rumours coming after a leak/report/rumour posted on Discord in January that Microsoft would be effectively going fully cross-platform, all the way down to Halo appearing on PlayStation consoles.

All of this would be utterly seismic for the games industry as a whole. Microsoft just through a ludicrous $68.7 billion at Activision Blizzard to acquire Call of Duty, Diablo, Candy Crush and more, and was dragged through the courts to give assurance after assurance that they would keep this company’s work cross-platform and sign away cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft.

That in and of itself came after several years of mass acquisitions, from independent studios like Ninja Theory through to ZeniMax and Bethesda, and angering