Today, Paradox Interactive has delivered the unfortunate news that Cities: Skylines 2 has been delayed on console "to provide the best experience for our players" on Xbox and PlayStation. While the PC release remains on-track to launch on October 24th (including on Game Pass), the Xbox version will now arrive in Spring 2024.
The team gave a brief explanation for this delay in a tweet posted earlier today:
In an accompanying forum post, the dev went into a bit more detail on why Cities: Skylines 2 isn't ready to launch this year on Xbox and PlayStation - despite the PC version being locked and loaded for release next month.
"Hello City Building Enthusiasts! We are sharing an update with you on the upcoming launch of Cities: Skylines II. We are hard at work preparing the game for our release on October 24th. While doing so, we have realized that we need more time to reach the quality targets we have set for Console.
As we want to provide the best experience for our players, we are updating the release window for Xbox and PS5 to Spring 2024. The additional time allows us to focus on matching the quality and performance across all platforms. We’ll share more updates on the console release window soon."
Hopefully we get a more solid Xbox launch window for Cities: Skylines 2 real soon. In the meantime, check out what else is coming to Xbox Game Pass next month down below!
Disappointed by this news? Or do you have enough of a backlog anyway? Leave your thoughts on this delay in the comments.
[source forum.paradoxplaza.com]
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I had a feeling this would happen, not entirely sure why just a "console version will be late" feel.
Looks good but who has time play anything with all the games coming to gamepass its been crazy and there's still a load more come this year gamepass is the best deal I've ever seen I think Me and everyone had been spoiled
Reviewers are being especially mean about buggy games so more time in the oven. I personally like destroying cities but each their own…
I am a big paradox fan. I have been playing their games since EU 1 man that was a long time ago I am really old. While I have no interest in this game I feel like they are one of the few companies that still really loves what they do and cares about their customers and games. Paradox fans are the best customer reviews to read on steam when they have a bad expansion or what they feel like is a bad expansion to one of their many games. the delay if it means a better console port and more people getting a better opinion of the types of games they make can only be a good thing.
Looking forward to this but happy for it to be moved out - I imagine I'll still be playing Starfield and will have started Forza Motorsport so this to move to a quieter time of year suits me
I was going to play on PC game pass anyway but still unfortunate for console. I am really looking forward to this one.
FM and this were my October games. Shame it’s delayed, I would have picked up some DLC for the original months ago. But i stopped playing with this coming
This is one of my most anticipated upcoming releases but I’m actually happy with the delay. Got too much on outside of gaming in the next few months and barely scratched the surface of BG3.
Probably a smart move there are lot of games out at the moment
26 days before release and they suddenly realise it needs another six months of work, at the PC version sudden needs a massive spike in the minimum system requirements.
I love the first C:S but I’ve a feeling this game has been far too rushed, and the creator videos I’ve seen online have done nothing to change my mind.
It's a congested end of the year for games so I don't mind this too much!
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