
It's been almost a couple of months now since Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launched on Xbox and PC, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that the game has surpassed four million players on those systems so far.
Nadella was speaking as part of the earnings results that were announced last night, where he used the opportunity to highlight the game's positive reviews along with its headline-grabbing milestone. Here's exactly what he said:
"And we saw rave reviews of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which has already been played by more than 4 million people."
As you probably know, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will soon be heading to PlayStation 5 as well, which means this player count is almost certainly set to grow by at least a few more million over the coming months - especially when adding in all the Xbox and PC folk who just haven't got around to playing it yet!
If you're in that boat, don't forget that Indiana Jones is playable with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass right now, and members of the former can also play it with Xbox Cloud Gaming - even on an Xbox One if you want to!
What do you make of this player count for Indiana Jones? Let us know down in the comments below.
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Still playing through it at the moment its a very good game very relaxing and just like the movies the game and looks so so good the cut scenes are so real looking!
It's on Game Pass.....
So what's so great about 4 Mio players?
I guess maybe 200.000 players bought the disc version and the rest installed it through Game Pass.
It looks nice, captures the movie atmosphere but as a game I think it's a bit weak. At least from the bit I could play of it.
The AI is dumber than a pile of rocks, the puzzles are easy and the collect the stuff for reasons is just over done.
If folks had fun good for you and if you haven't finished it I hope you continue to do so. For me I think it was over hyped & it certainly underdelivered as a game.
@Nintendo4Sonic
You have to remember Indiana Jones isn’t a popular franchise anymore. The last two movies in the franchise bombed and this game was a gamble to be honest. It’s mostly for the existing Indy fans (who grew up loving the movies, like I did) and it’s full of fan service. In the light of this I think it’s doing very well and I hope we will get a sequel as I loved the game from start to finish.
@gollumb82 Being an 80s kid, it really was a fun game! Bugs aside, I was even able to 100% it. That snake section though...never want to do that again, hahaha.
It's a truly wonderful game if you're a fan of the films and an excellent adventure game regardless. If I had to nitpick I wish Gina's ambient dialogue was a little less immersion breaking at times but that's really all I can come up with. I'm sure a likely sequel will improve on many aspects as all great game series by talented developers do. I'm nearing the end but absolutely loving it.
Great game, and solid start, hope more players jump in and we get a sequel.
@gollumb82 Tbh the I think movies bombed because Harrison Ford is a old age pensioner at this stage it's just not believable and screams desperation from the studio the old films are timeless though!
@FarmDog08
Yeah, it was rather scary (coming from someone playing Alan Wake 2 right now haha). But it had to be there, right? Indy is famous for his ‚love’ of snakes 😉
@Ricky-Spanish
Honestly, I liked the last one quite a bit 😜 but you’re right. It was a nostalgia trip for old Indy fans and the young generation just saw an old guy trying to do stunts haha.
The way Satya comments on Xbox and gaming really makes me think he sees it as Microsoft's entertainment push and answer to Amazon and Apple's massive success in entertainment thus. Which if that's true, you have to wonder how Microsoft has seen Xbox before? Like was it that cute little side project? I mean like the original Xbox launched before the first iPhone even, and yet Apple has grown far far more in consumer entertainment. Imagine if Microsoft had invested more in Xbox from day one.
@gollumb82 Haha, I love how they showed his development for "love of snakes" in The Last Crusade in the flashback sequence. That also happens to be my favorite movie in the series. Haven't seen the newest one yet.
I just looked into this a bit more and saw that (via unmissable achievements) only 12.21% of players have completed the game. That's a real shame. It's FAR better than that!
In fact only 29.27% have finished the first hub, the Vatican, and moved to the next location. Hope this picks up as I want more.
@gollumb82 you're right with this. And so, it's not bad, that it reached 4 million players.
But it doesn't change the fact, that it was only downloaded with Game Pass on most systems.
And if that's a success for the studio and years of development, is another question.
Indiana Jones is my GOTY 2024. It's a shame only 4 million people tried it, and the completion percentage is so low. I think Game Pass is a great value, but it really hampers stuff like this.
Indy is the best game Xbox has put out in a long time and it went largely ignored. There's over 30 million Game Pass subscribers and 4 million people played it?
@TheGameThrifter I loved it too, but there are an insane amount of bugs. I only experienced a few, but others hit game breaking bugs. People may be holding out on that.
Loved the game but 4 million seems a low number to me given its on game pass… its really good so hopefully it takes off and more players try it and then a strong release on Playstation so we get a sequel 🙂
Tbh I expected more hype especially given pretty big views on youtube trailers and such. Steam numbers were weak too.
Great game though and thats what matters in the end of the day. And definitely its getting solid sales on PS, so we might see a sequel.
Loved every minute of it. One hell of a good adventure.
......and that helps recover the costs making the game? How?
Say studio gets 3% of game pass $19.99 which is .599. At approximately 4,000,000 people. Let's just say it's $2.4 million.
If game was $30 million to develop, looking at loss $27.6 million. The business model absolutely not sustainable.
Going be really hard change my mind we'll not see game pass hit $50 a month by 2027.
@Nintendo4Sonic Sounds like you're on same track as me. See my post above.
Satya Nadella: we are thrilled to take your money and this didn't flop, now forget about Redfall.
In all honesty, excellent work from the team on making this game. Looks great, sounds great & a whole lot of fun. If it means more Indie, by all means brag away!
@GuyinPA75 agree, game pass isn't sustainable and most people on PC are gonna bootleg games anyway. It'll just be like Xbox Live Gold again at some point. Online play should be free & some type of membership still makes sense to get discounts or early access to games.
I would've bought a lot more games without game pass. So that's hundreds of dollars they're missing out on.
It's going to sell well very on the PlayStation, quite possibly half as much again or maybe even more, and will effectively seal the fate of every Xbox exclusive thereafter. I doubt anything on the Xbox will be anything more than a timed exclusive once the bigwigs see the dollars rolling in from Indiana Jones (and that will possibly be the case for older releases too)...
It'll sell a few more million once it releases on PlayStation.
@GuyinPA75 What if you owned the studio making the game and owned Gamepass …. Would that change your math to 100%?
@AlwaysPlaying What if you owned the studio making the game and owed employees but unable to make payroll due to costs outweighing the expenses…. Would that change your math to 100%?
Also known as - - Business 101.
@GuyinPA75 yeah, Game Pass isn't a good thing.
Rookie numbers!!
Jokes aside good game became a little old toward the end but untill a great experience overall.
@wildcat_kickz
And MS get some extra profits, the game will get more followers, and probably some money back to Machine Games so they can make another great game. Wins across the board.
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