[News] Avowed Delayed to February 2025 to 'Give Players' Backlogs Some Breathing Room'

[Catgirl Rika]

Xbox has announced that it is delaying Avowed from later in 2024 to February 18, 2025, to "give players' backlogs some breathing room."

Xbox shared the news on X/Twitter alongside a graphic showing all of its currently announced first party Xbox games.

"So many games coming! As such, we're moving Avowed to Feb 18, 2025, to give players' backlogs some breathing room," Xbox wrote. "Stay tuned for more from our games across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda & Xbox Game Studios at gamescom, including our Aug 23 livestream for a look at Avowed."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819495487155982486

So am glad a bit. I'd rather have a good well polished game than a rushed one. What about you guys? What do you think about the news?

 

[The Mega Champion]

I have no idea what they are talking about honestly. As far as I'm concerned, the rest of the year is practically light/dead other than Astro Bot and maybe Metaphor.

 

[Nah]

I don't even know anything about the game, but that's a rather unusual reason to delay a game's release. Is that really it or is that what they just came up with to hide the real reason?

 

[Catgirl Rika]

I don't even know anything about the game, but that's a rather unusual reason to delay a game's release. Is that really it or is that what they just came up with to hide the real reason?

You never know. I had no idea about this game either tbh

 

[Hermione Granger]

As for xbox first party the only games only CoD and Indiana Jones are of interest to me, and those two titles aren't for everyone. I think the real reason is the game wasn't ready for a 2024 release and MS wanted to give a little bit longer dev time to polish the title. This is the first time that I seen that reason given for a delay.