Specs for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for PC have been revealed, and you might want to shield your gaming rig's eyes if you don't want to hear it scream in fear.
Bethesda revealed the PC specs for Indiana Jones and Great Circle on its official website, and they definitely suggest some optimization issues. I mean, I bought a new RTX 3060 Lenovo Legion laptop less than a year ago and I'm worried about it keeping up with the minimum gaming configuration, which requires a 2060 Super GPU and an i7-10700k CPU.
Interestingly, the specs also say “GPU hardware ray tracing required” even at the lowest graphics settings. That would mean that all of Nvidia's older 10-series GPUs simply won't make the cut.
Meanwhile, if you want the best visual and performance experience with “full ray tracing requirements,” you'll need an i7-13900K CPU, which doesn't exist, and a 24GB RTX 4090, which does exist but doesn't exist. for more than $2,000 online just with the card.
Beyond the obvious implications for PC gamers, which alone are surprising given that the game is arguably the biggest first-party Xbox release of the year, you also have to wonder what this means for console gamers, particularly those with the Xbox Series S. I'll reserve judgment until I can try it out for myself, but suffice it to say that these PC specs don't give me hope for the performance of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in general.
For everything else on the horizon, here are all the upcoming Xbox Series X games we know about.