Cities Skylines II console version delayed until next year

According to Engadget , it looks like Cities Skylines II will be huge in scale. As the console release has been delayed until early 2024, along with the fact that PC hardware specifications are becoming more demanding.

Prior to the delay, those who pre-ordered the game on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S will be automatically refunded through those platforms. The developer of Colossal Order is also currently closing pre-orders for the console version. Cities Skylines II will still be available on PC Game Pass on October 24, though.

Cities: Skylines II console version delayed until next year

The new minimum and recommended PC specs aren't much different from the original, but there are two notable changes. The recommended specs now call for an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor instead of the Ryzen 5 5800X. For the minimum specs, the game requires an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (or AMD equivalent) graphics card, up from the original GTX 780.

Colossal Order explains that the console delay and the PC hardware spec change stem from the same root cause: the game is large and requires more optimization than they anticipated.

2023 is a tough year for PC gaming in general. The diversity of the PC market has always been a challenge for developers, but console hardware is now far ahead of PC, making large-scale games difficult to deploy on PC. With the news of Cities: Skylines II , it seems Colossal Order is trying to protect itself from this situation.

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