At the moment, there will be no news about the console version of Cities: Skylines 2

The release date of Cities: Skylines 2 on consoles, which was planned for this spring, has been delayed.

In the latest news of the game, we learned that Marina Halikainen , the CEO of Colossal Order Studio and Matias Lilja , the head of Paradox Interactive, who developed and published Cities: Skylines 2 respectively, apologized to the players in a joint meeting for the problems of the game after the release of the Beach Properties add-on package. Have. In addition, the two managers confirmed that the release date of the game on consoles has been postponed to another time.

While the initial plan to launch Cities: Skylines 2 this spring on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | The Xbox Series S was set, but now Colossal Order has announced that it can't promise fans a release date. The studio has announced the reason for this is not having enough time to optimize Cities: Skylines 2 for release on consoles.

It seems that the development of one of the important builds of the game will be finalized this month, and then the development team will prepare for the test beta in October (October or November). However, before evaluating its performance, the developer of Cities: Skylines 2 does not make any promises to players about the release of the console version on the set date: "We would like to point out the postponement of the release date of the game on consoles. As you know, we planned to release the game for consoles in the spring of 2024. However, we faced some doubts and decided to avoid making promises that may not be fulfilled.

We've been working hard to bring Cities: Skylines 2 to a decent level of optimization for consoles. Now we hope that the completion of the next build in April will give us a good view of the game's progress to estimate the release time, and after that we will aim to release a build in October. However, we can't give an exact release date until we see the progress made on these builds and evaluate them, and even then we'll still have some doubts.

Our ambition is to deliver the experience you all deserve at launch, but that will take time. You should note that the game port team for the console works independently from the game development team on computers; Therefore, the port team continues to develop without dividing our focus or time."

Colossal Order studio and Paradox Interactive continued to respond to the extremely negative feedback from players about the game's new expansion pack and announced that they will make it free for all players and refund the money of the buyers. Also, the two companies confirmed that the release of all add-on packs for Cities: Skylines 2 has been delayed until 2025.