Forspokens 'strategic' delay pushes it into early 2023

Date:
Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:15:59 +0000

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Square Enix has announced that its delaying Forspoken for a second time, pushing its release date into early 2023.

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Square Enix and Luminous Productions fantasy RPG Forspoken has been delayed for a second time, with its release now pushed into early 2023.

The announcement was made in a tweet from the official Forspoken account, which reads, "As a result of ongoing discussions with key partners, we have made the strategic decision to move the launch date of Forspoken to January 24, 2023."

The statement doesnt give any indication that the game is in any particularly bad state. In fact, it says that "all game elements are now complete, and development is in its final polishing phase which all sounds promising.

The statement closes out with a promise that fans can look forward to a further update on the game later this summer. An update on #Forspoken. pic.twitter.com/sRLvXX2kjS July 6, 2022 See more

Prior to this delay announcement, Forspoken was expected to launch on PS5 and PC on October 11 2022. Shifting a release date into an entirely new year can feel like a lot but its only a matter of a few months, which isnt a huge amount of extra time to wait if it means getting it right.

That said, if youve been eager to get your hands on Forspoken, youll be all too aware that this is the games second delay it was originally supposed to release in May 2022 but Luminous Productions announced a delay in March , stating that the development team needed a little more time for polishing.

When Forspoken launches on January 24 2023, it will be playable on PC and
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Forspoken's strategic delay is certainly a different reason from its first delay but its somewhat vague. Interestingly, it was previously rumored by
Xbox Era podcast host Shpeshal Nick that Square Enix could have been considering pushing Forspoken into 2023 if there was a chance of it getting Final Fantasy 16 out by the end of 2022.

However, Final Fantasy 16 currently has a release window of Summer 2023,
which is a good bit after Forspoken, even with this delay. Besides, Final Fantasy 16 isnt ready yet either, with Naoki Yoshida confirming in an interview just last month that while the game is fully playable from start to finish there is a lot of voiceover in several languages that still need to be recorded and that a year is a short time in game development, so were all straining at the bit to get it over the line.

Forspokens shift into January has 2023 looking like a pretty juicy year for Square Enix, with Final Fantasy 16 expected sometime in the middle of the
year and Final Fantasy 7 Part 2 potentially releasing at the end with its "next winter" window. At the very least, this delay will give Square Enix and Luminous Productions a little more time to build up anticipation for Forspoken.

While Forspokens delay is a blow for PS5 owners today, the latter half of
2022 is hardly going to be an empty one for the console. In fact, this bad news has probably been pretty significantly offset for many by the long-awaited confirmation that the highly-anticipated PS5 exclusive, God of War: Ragnark , is slated to launch on November 9 2022. The best PS5 games you should be playing right now



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