One of the big questions surrounding Age of Empires 4 is this: Is it coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X and/or Xbox Series S? The game is available today with Xbox Game Pass for PC, and the reception to it so far has been fantastic. With such a phenomenal new release, many are hoping it could eventually make the jump to Xbox consoles - similar to Gears Tactics. Is this a pipedream? Or is there some possibility it could happen?
Let's take a look.
Unfortunately, the answer may not be what you want to hear. While there's been some hope it could be coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, it seems, for now, there are no plans for a console release.
With this being said, there is still some hope for console players. Back in April, Adam Isgreen, the creative director on Age of Empires 4, spoke to XboxEra (47:53) about the possibility of a console release in the future.
While he didn't have anything to announce, he did mention the "hurdles" the team would have to overcome to port the game to various Xbox systems. However, he added that the team is hearing the community and the team is "thinking about it" and told fans to "stay tuned".
There may be nothing concrete to confirm at the moment, but fans shouldn't give up hope. There are dozens of petitions on the Age of Empires forums requesting a port to consoles and it's great to see the team at World's Edge are listening. Will it happen? We're not sure, but it doesn't sound entirely out of the question if the demand is there.
Would you like to see Age of Empires 4 on Xbox consoles? Drop us a comment and let us know.
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Give it 6 months it will drop on Xbox
Yeah I think they wanted to perfect it on its native platform rather than constrain themselves to having to make it work on console(more specifically work with a controller) day one.
@elpardo1984
Like Flight simulator. Focus is good.
2 big reasons I havent upgraded to a series X, 1-I cant FIND ONE!, I-I'm not keen on upgrading just for MFS, no matter how badly I wanna play it. One game just ain't enough. Age would be another major incentive. The worst thing I've heard from Phil S this year was him bragging on how Age 4 played on the Steamdeck....honestly Phil, wth?
I'm through three missions plus the tutorial which was pretty good. My opinion so far is that it's a lot of fun and I'm terrible at these types of games. Let's put it this way in the capturing of York mission my king spent most of his time dead in enemy territory and I lost completely to another 3 rd group. So ya I need to get better but it's lots of fun
No information is a massively different statement to not planned.
I hope it's coming. I want to play it, but my portable PC is too weak for running this game properly. I want to see it shining in Xbox Series.
Hell, even if they did a early access version that was only keyboard and mouse, that would be enough.
They are literally sitting on a very well reviewed first party game that isn't even available on console, yet being branded as an Xbox game.
Yes, I know Xbox is now an ecosystem of console, PC and cloud, but it's only available on one of those.
Big opportunity missed in my opinion.
Here's hoping it does!
Yea, they must port it at some point. They should not miss any possible exclusives.
Age of empire, and all RTS strategy games in general will work better on consoles as long as one can "skip movement" associated with placement and movement - something a lot of people have thought of.
Usally they avoid letting you use continous movement, but gives you a grid over places to place something. If you here press next in form of stick movement, you go to next placement area. Grid density can be adjusted.Grid area of course can be moved.
In this way you can in a fast way place something, as fast as yo do it with the mouse.
With movement, they give you a direction and an one dimentional grid where the density is adjustable. Instead of having to wait until correct position, you can just skip movement time so to speak.
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