Square Enix’s action-RPG gets a major delay and announces its new release date. The teams want the franchise to continue and don’t want to rush things.
It was dated May 24, 2022 on PlayStation 5 and PC, but Forspoken will be late as hell. Square Enix justified this decision in an official press release.
Ambition but not enough time
While we thought the Forspoken release was set in stone, that is no longer the case. In fact, as you can read below, The game is pushed back to October 11, 2022 on PS5 and PC
Forspoken follows the adventures of Frey, a New Yorker who is catapulted into the beautiful and cruel world of Athia. Frey must use her new magical abilities to traverse vast landscapes, face monstrous creatures, and return home.
Obviously it was a complicated choice for the developers even if it had to be. The latter want Forspoken to become a real franchise… and so it’s better that it doesn’t stumble over the carpet in the first opus. Because of this, the studio wanted to delay the release of the title and use the extra time to refine their baby.
This is in contrast to the director’s previous reassuring remarks, but after all, the software was still quite mysterious. As proof, our preview, where we finally came out with a lot of questions.
Forspoken in October 2024 for the Xbox Series?
This delay has another consequence: Forspoken will be coming to Xbox Series X | much later appear p. For now, it’s a temporary two-year PlayStation 5 exclusive that will land on Microsoft consoles. And that inevitably shifts everything.
So if the game had been available on the Xbox Series from May 24, 2024, it will not be before October 11, 2024 from now on. At least.
