Microsoft first announced its new Fable game, a reboot of the satirical RPG series by Forza maker Playground Games, back at E3 2020.
Seven years later, the title will finally launch on PS5. That’s a long ass time.
To be fair to Xbox Game Studios, the title likely would have launched this holiday if it wasn’t for GTA 6, but the company said it was delaying it to give it the “dedicated moment it deserves”.
Its early access will now launch a day after Sony’s own God of War Laufey, which is coming on 16th February. It’s going to be interesting to see just how much that impacts the sales potential of the long-awaited RPG.
On that topic, Windows Central writer Jez Corden cites sources that say Fable has “run uncomfortably beyond budget”. With a seven year development cycle, that’s not a huge surprise.
To cut Playground Games some slack here, it did have to re-engineer its proprietary ForzaTech engine to support a completely different type of open world game, which can’t have been a small feat.
And based on the gameplay snippets I’ve seen, I do think this looks really interesting, with its blend of life sim elements and traditional fantasy RPG tropes.
I do wonder how much God of War Laufey is going to eat the game’s lunch, though – particularly on PS5.
Is another delay even possible here? I guess Microsoft has a few more months to decide if that’s something it wants to do.
[source windowscentral.com]
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As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.