Well, some Diablo 4 release date reports are beginning to gain pace ahead of next month's The Game Awards event. Reported on by both Xbox Era and Windows Central, Blizzard is set to launch Diablo 4 in April 2023, with a blowout expected at The Game Awards 2022 this December.
Windows Central says a "sizeable marketing blitz" for Diablo 4 will kick off during next month's event, running right through to a rumoured release window of April 2023. Pre-orders are also expected to open up in December, with multiple physical and digital editions said to be in the works.
The WC report also details some of Blizzard's post-launch plans for Diablo 4. The developer is supposedly planning a "season-based live service" for the title, with Season 1 "tentatively scheduled for Q3", a few months after the game's initial launch.
As usual, all of these details are rumour at present and should be treated as such. We've got a couple of sources reporting on this though, and we know the team has been hosting internal Diablo 4 playtests as of late. Only a month or so until we find out for sure anyway, with The Game Awards 2022 going ahead on December 8th.
What do you make of this? Excited for Diablo 4 on Xbox? Let us know down below!
[source windowscentral.com]
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By that date, the acquisition will almost certainly had gone through and this would be able to launch directly into GamePass.
Blizzard is one of my favorite studios in the industry and this is my favorite IP from them. So i am beyond excited. I still play Diablo 3 on Xbox and PC. If this hits GP that is the kind of game that would get people to sign up and stay signed up for awhile. I hope they can hit this date and please don’t have launch issues like diablo 2 remake and Overwatch 2. Favorite studio or not that is a bad look and just not good business. EXCITED tho, Diablo 4 looks so good in all the videos.
If the acquisition doesnt go through in time i can imagine the sales will be practically nothing on xbox with people waiting for gamepass
Even if they don't own ActivBlizz by that time, there's still nothing to stop them from working out a Game Pass deal. Especially if they fully expect to have them acquired eventually.
I'm excited as the next person for Diablo 4, but what I'd really like is local co-op support on the Xbox port of the Diablo II remake.
I've basically done what I wanted to in D2R. Beat it on hell with every class on single player, killed Uber Diablo with my only SoJ for an anni, built some high runewords.
D3 has been shelved for a while for me. I played maybe 1 season a year, just got bored with the same grind again, but sometimes they would pull me back in for a week if the new mechanic sounded interesting enough.
So ready for 4! and everything they've said and shown looks good to me so far. Not worried about cosmetic mtx at all. If that supports a more robust seasonal content development team, then I can happily ignore the shop. D3 seasons revived the game but they were sort of tacked on, and by and large they were all the same, until the last few started mixing it up. From what they've said it sounds like there's a much more solid long term plan here than there was for D3
@Kaloudz the main reason I want the Activision deal to go through is for the incredible but dormant IP's they have. I would love to see Tony Hawk's Pro skater comeback (I genuinely loved tony hawk's underground and T.H.U.G. 2), then you have Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, Spyro the dragon, DJ Hero, StarCraft, True Crime, singularity, phantasmagoria & prototype plus many more that I don't even know. Point is they can really capitalize on IP that's been laid dormant.
On a side not I don't care about new COD games releasing day one on gamepass and in fact that doesn't make sense financially BUT gamepass would be a brilliant place for Microsoft to put the amazing back catalog of COD games. So many people would subscribe just to play COD4:MW, World at War, MW2, MW3, Black Ops & Black ops 2 & while these games are still technically playable via backwards compatibility, the games have been so long unsupported there's either no community at ALL or simply massive hackers. If Microsoft could salvage some servers these games would be EXCELLENT additions to gamepass. I have high hopes for this acquisition lol happy gaming ✌️
Would love to see this on Game Pass, but I don't even care. I'll buy this on day one if it's not.
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