Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is selling faster on PS5 than it did on Steam and Xbox, with over 100,000 copies sold since its launch last week.
That’s according to Alinea analyst Rhys Elliott (thanks, VGC), who quite rightly adds the caveat that the “overwhelming majority” of Xbox players “came in via Game Pass” and therefore didn’t need to “buy” the game if they were members of Xbox’s subscription service.
That said, it’s thought that in less than a week, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has sold 28 percent faster on PS5 than PC, shifting 117.2K copies on PS5 compared with Steam’s 91.2K in the same timeframe.
Alinea posits The Great Circle has been played by around five million players on Xbox.
The PS5 edition gets a handful of new features over Xbox, including DualSense compatibility, which gives you a visual indicator if enemies are on the lookout for Indy. Performance wise, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle “benefits from frictionless loading”, as well as “selective installation that prioritises your system language, and SSD optimisation, ensuring a seamless experience with faster streaming and loading”.
The game also included a PS5 Pro enhanced label on its release, which gives users higher and more consistent framerates when playing, as well as better image clarity thanks to its native 4K resolution and advanced ray tracing.
We awarded Indiana Jones and the Great Circle five stars on its release. “Indiana Jones really feels like he comes full circle (sorry) in this latest adventure. At long last, there’s an Indy game that nails both the puzzles and the kind of action we know so well from the films, and it does so with wit, charm, and a real eye for spectacle,” Katharine Castle wrote in Eurogamer’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review.
“Indiana Jones and the Great Circle makes a successful leap on to PS5 platforms and despite its delayed release, everything we loved about the Xbox experience is intact,” Digital Foundry’s Thomas wrote in his review of the PS5 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle port.