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Forspoken Delayed to January 24, 2023, Due to “Strategic Decision.”

Square Enix announced a delay of its upcoming action JRPG Forspoken, likely to avoid the massive traffic jam of JRPGs in the fall.

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Square Enix announced a delay of its upcoming action JRPG Forspoken.

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The announcement was made on Twitter mentioning that as a result of ongoing discussions with key partners, the publisher has made the “strategic decision” to change the release date to January 24, 2023.

Interestingly, the announcement goes on to say that all game elements are complete and the development is in the final polishing phase.

The game is slated to release on PS5 and PC.

https://twitter.com/forspoken/status/1544675140780392453

The wording of the message appears to indicate that the delay may possibly be tied to the fact that Square Enix simply had too many games releasing in a similar timeframe.

Forspoken was slated to launch on October 11, 2022, following a first delay.

That definitely overlapped with the release of Valkyrie Elysium on September 29, 2022, and the launch of Star Ocean: The Divine Force on October 27, 2022, on top of The DioField Chronicle on September 23, 2022.

Quite likely, someone at Square Enix realized that the release schedule was creating pretty much a massive JRPG traffic jam, and now that has been cleared a bit.

If you’d like to see more of Forspoken, If you’d like to see more, you can check out the original revealanother look at the technology powering the new gameanother trailerone more, and a video dedicated to the game’s technology.

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Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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