Stranger Than Heaven is this coming Winter so basically early 2027. My guess is also February as well as the next Metro game. February 2027 could be packed - Stranger Than Heaven, Metro and Fable.
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Bummer, but not unexpected. Fable is the one that seemed most likely to get delayed, and I didnāt know where theyād put it. This should at least make for a strong 2026 to 2027 (from FH6 to whatever is coming in fall 2027) run like Avowed did for 2024 to 2025. Oh well for the four horsemen lines though.
In some weird way, moving this into 2027 all of a sudden made the rest of this year a little less stressful for me. Already too many big games coming out.
Now just hope gta makes their nov release days so Xbox games can properly maneuver around it.
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I could see this coming from a mile away. Even if you take GTA 6 out of the equation, Xbox had to fit in:
Halo Infinite - June - August
Sept (taken by Wolverine)
October - Gears of War & COD
Nov - Dec - Minecraft Legends 2
Jan - Persona 4 Revival or Stranger than Heaven (Both Game Pass)
There just was not space, and Feb was the next month they had free.
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Itās almost like this game will never be released.
Canāt help but feel itās the wrong move too, Going late & in February didnāt work out for Avowed & I feel the GTA hype will still be in full swing in Feb 2027
Not that I feel February is a good time to launch a major product when most people are depressed & skint after Christmas too.
IMO the team should have gone early & I fear for the team too, given how long this has been in development, unless it sells 7 million copies & more, I canāt see it making its development costs back
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Wolverine shouldnāt impact Xbox release schedules as itās only an option for those with a PS5 - Xbox and PC gamers plus those sick of Insomniac being a Marvel factory still should have an alternative option
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I canāt decide if you are concern trolling constantly or you are supposedly a fan of Xbox (and Sega) and you hate being one. 
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As someone who doesnāt care about GTA VI (I havenāt played GTA V yet!), this sucks. I always have the backlog, but this was on my day1 list.
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In my view SEGA is the best video games company in the entire world & made the best consoles ever in the history of gaming.
Iāve been with Xbox since importing the OG Xbox in December of 2001 & with LIVE for over 22 years Iāll gladly give you my gametag if you donāt believe meā¦ So you can check how long Iāve been with Xbox & how many games Iāve bought since the 360 era
Overlooking that. I donāt think going in Feb will work for the game, most of the best-selling Xbox games of all time donāt launch then & tends to be before Christmas & think that GTA 6 will be so HUGE that it will still generate discourse in Feb 2027
Fable has been in development since at least 2017 & most probably full production since 2019 ? Yet it has been delayed yet again until 2027. Now you can call it trolling all you want but
A). I donā think Feb is a good month to launch a major IP for XBox.
B) Do worry about how much this game is costing & what it will need to generate in sales to pay back its costs & where we donāt get another Turn 10.
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It really started up production in like, 2020āish and then lost time to covid like everyone else. They just had an enormous success in FH6. Fable has a huge budget, sure, but games do fine in February now. Capcom has their biggest RE ever this year during that time.
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Some people just want to be disingenuous. Was talking to someone on social media that saidā¦watch it just getting canceled before February, so I mentioned his hyperbole. His argument was that MS just flat out canceled Perfect Dark and that was shown as well.
But letās just conveniently forget PD was being made by a brand new studio, then helped by another well known studio, and Fable is by Playground, a well established and trusted one. I get it that people are a bit jumpy/wary after all the not so great Xbox news a while ago with those cancelations but come on.
Looking forward to seeing more during the show soon. Really hope it sticks to February though, and honestly that isnāt even too bad of a delay.
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Engagement. People are easily lost when you confront them on social media. No debate, no arguments, just a few catch phrases repeated ad nauseam. Itās rare to have a genuine interaction where the person tries to understand your POV and answer with something coherent.
Iām all for maintaining forums alive because of this.
I should have bet it would be pushed, because everyone paying attention was saying it would be february.
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Canceling a title from critical acclaim studio that practically brought money that many publishers wish to have is a weird thought. I know Bungie did that with ND, but this one is safe.
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I can save you the doomscrolling. Fable will release in February (#FFFABLEFALL) and will do āfineā. I donāt think youāre wrong in that itās over budget and will struggle to be a financial success for Xbox. A few months after launch the team will probably be quietly laid off with some cuts or be moved to Forza Horizon 6 support. Insiders will report it and for a while there will be a story about Fable having failed. There. Do you want to know the lottery numbers next?
Iām not even joking, this is the most likely outcome. Obviously Xbox wonāt shutdown Playground games. Forza Horizon is now one of their most successful franchises period, and Fable will release because it is this close to being done and it did cost a lot to make. Not releasing it at all would be a massive financial loss. We donāt know how good it will be, but at least a low 8 (at the bare minimum) feels like a nice general guess. I donāt think it will do well enough to warrant a sequel, but I never did. Fable is a dormant IP that killed itself and ultimately a whole studio. We can point fingers at studio mismanagement (and we know there was at least some mismanagement from Microsoft), but at the end of the day if Fable was a successful franchise that continously lit the world on fire then the studio would still be around even if only in name (like 343 has been gutted and had massive amounts of staff laid off). Anyway, so yeah probably never was going to be a Fable sequel, and I donāt know what the āRPG (I guessā team at Playground would do next, so they probably will get moved to supporting FH6 live service or be laid off as tends to happen after major releases where not as many devs are needed to maintain a game. So
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As has been said Xbox doesnāt really have anywhere else to put it. Rushing the game out for an earlier launch wouldāve just led to a lower quality game that has a harder time making an impact. Making sure the game is at least good is necessary. The release might be the best for single game sales, but thereās less competition and it gets Xbox closer to their desired āOne first party AAA game a quarterā for game pass.
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Donāt worry. Playground is literally the other side of turn 10 and partially why turn 10 happened. Turn 10 were just a support studio for FH6. Forza Horizon 6 isnāt even out on all the platforms it will be and is already doing phenomenal. The studio will be fine no matter how well or poorly Fable does financially. Maybe that particular team gets shifted or cut, but thatās it. And again that was always a strong possibility. Even if the game is a success, what would they do next? How many people are needed just to do bug fixes and patches? Thereās no major expansion planned.
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Fable is releasing day one on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Itās going to sell extremely well. February is a far better date than early December where very few games ever do well.
Iām super hyped that itās February because I get a Microsoft published game to kick off the year.
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Itās not nearly the same case as Avowed, that game didnāt appeal to many gamers since itās gameplay reveal, and it released just a couple weeks after an all timer RPG (KCD2).
Fable has been one of the most wishlisted games on Steam since the gameplay, if something, itāll be the game to avoid during Q1 2027, specialy for RPGās or adventure games.
Also am i the only who kinda gets āhappierā with these delays? I mean iām a FOMO player who sees more and more how games get new modes or important changes added just weeks or a couple months after release.
Itās not like the game will be perfect with a delay, but itāll for sure release in a better state than if it wasnāt delayed, and i got so many games that work as backlog / fillers that itās not like iāll be bored.
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Staffy I have to say Iām a little hurt & upset with your comments & I thought we were one of the more level-headed & sound people . One never said the game is going to get cancelled, only that it feels like the game will never make it out. Itās very much how I felt with Galleon back in the day where each delay was so disappointing for a game I was so looking forward too & couldnāt wait to play & where I was getting the singing feeling of will the game ever make it out.
Doncabesa, Yes I know RE did well, but I made the point of Xbox games ,not massive 3rd party games. Going in Feb did not work out well for the likes of Crackdown 3, Avowed Ect, but thats small point & worry I agree.
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Also, Turn 10 used to make hit after hit & at one stage were so good, you could set your watch to the 2-year development cycle. A studio that MS set up from scratch, a studio used to showcase & show off the latest Xbox hardware & yet after one slight mishap, a studio that was gutted by Microsoft.
Satya Nadella or Amy Hood donāt care about a teamās past achivments its all about the here & now & profits. Given how long Fable has been in development, I do worry about how well the game needs to do to make a good enough profit for the Fable line of Playground games, not that the studio will be completely shut down
That isnāt trolling, but a genuine heartfelt worry, with how Xbox have treated studios of late that donāt perform or hit 30% & now thereās no Phil Spencer to shield or project the teams either 
Sure, people can bring up Ninja Theory, but I think what really saves them is their low staff count & keeping development budgets low.
Also, I feel itās better to go before GTA 6, than after it. GTA 6 going to be the number one Christmas game & I donāt see many games getting a look in for months after the game releases & then thereās the technical aspect of it.
GTA 6 is going to leagues ahead of any open-world game for technology & every open-world game will be held up to GTA 6, which is another small issue I have for any open-world game that comes after it, more so with the anti-Xbox press we have today.
Itās one of the reasons I hope the Yakuza studio will work night & day to make sure Stranger Than Heaven makes it out before GTA 6, becasue itās world & tech will be held up against GTA 6 & not even SEGA can compete with Rockstar North & the RAGE engine.
I was more for going early & would have hoped that the Forza Horizon line could have been drafted into help get the game out, now theyāve wrapped up Horizon 6.
Ah well itās not to be, but Iām gutted myself as I donāt like GTA games & was more looking forward to Fable this year.