The long-running trading card game Magic: The Gathering is also available in digital form, but a planned console conversion is now a long time coming.
Magic: The Gathering Arena was supposed to be playable on consoles later this year, but nothing is happening. The digital implementation of the trading card evergreen will no longer make it to Xbox or PlayStation in 2023; Hasbro boss Chris Cocks has now confirmed this.
Accordingly, the console version of the digital trading card game will not appear until 2024 or even later. However, there are currently no effects on the planned Steam version, since a PC version is already available anyway. Valve’s popular platform should continue to open in autumn 2023.
Cocks made the announcement during a call with investors on the company’s fiscal fourth quarter results. The Steam release is therefore the biggest thing for Arena for the time being, with the development team focusing above all on improving the gaming experience noticeably until then.
The console version will only be evaluated in the medium term, especially with regard to implementations for Xbox and PlayStation. Cocks describes this as an “interesting possibility” that will only become relevant for “2024 or later”.
In this respect, that sounds significantly different than it did in an investor talk in July last year. Back then, Cocks said Magic: The Gathering Arena would be coming to consoles sometime in 2023.
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