Cities: Skylines 2 made its PC Game Pass debut last October, with the promise of a console release to come in Spring 2024. Well, we're now in Spring 2024, and the team at Paradox Interactive has an update for us regarding Cities: Skylines 2 on Xbox Series X|S.
In short, the team is delaying its Spring-time target, due to "struggling to get Cities: Skylines II to the necessary level of optimization for a console release". The game is still due to come to console, and Game Pass, but we're going to have to wait a bit longer for it.

On the team's current timeline, it's expecting to assess an early build of the console version this month - with a "release build" not expected to be ready until October 2024. And even then, "some uncertainty remains" regarding these dates and that eventual console release.
"We have been struggling to get Cities: Skylines II to the necessary level of optimization for a console release, but are now hopeful that an upcoming build delivery in April will demonstrate sufficient progress for us to progress with a release candidate, and then a release build targeted for October.
Before we have seen and evaluated the progress made in these builds however, we will not be able to confirm the release date, and even then, some uncertainty always remains. Our ambition is to deliver the experience that you all deserved at launch, but it will take time."
In the meantime, if you have a beefy enough PC you can play the game right now through Xbox Game Pass, while us console players will have to hold our breath for a good while longer.
Are you waiting for this one? Let us know if you'll be playing Cities: Skylines 2 on console!
[source forum.paradoxplaza.com]
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After seeing the mess they made of optimising for the PC release, I wouldn’t be surprised if this eventually gets cancelled, for console. Either that, or it’ll be a rather stripped-down version that makes its way to console.
Just give me the original SimCity or SimCity 2000 on steam. I prefer those 2 over the current city builders.
They couldn’t even make the first instalment properly . Why allow you to keep building if it makes the game unstable
As long as it’s no longer a steaming mess by the time it hits console, I’ll be happy. I don’t get why they released it so early and in such a poor state. They could have done some kind of early access or preview or whatever instead…
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