Paradox Interactive Shelves Console Version of Cities Skylines 2 Release

TapTechNews July 9th news, publisher Paradox Interactive released a post today, stating that it has shelved the plan to release the console version of the game Cities: Skylines 2, which was originally scheduled for October. As for the subsequent release plan, it will wait for the evaluation result of the beta version in August.

TapTechNews translated part of its official announcement as follows:

We are steadily advancing the console version of the Cities: Skylines 2 game, but some issues have not been properly resolved and cannot meet our expectations, and cannot bring players a sufficiently excellent gaming experience.

We plan to launch a new candidate release version in August and then evaluate whether it meets the release conditions. We will decide on the subsequent release plan based on the results of this evaluation, or maybe more issues need to be addressed.

The Cities: Skylines 2 game was released on October 24, 2023, developed by ColossalOrder and published by Paradox Interactive. It is a city-building game. The game was originally scheduled to be released on Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series S|X consoles in October this year.

As the sequel to Cities: Skylines in 2015, this work has expanded in many simulation elements, such as the size of the simulated city, the population size, as well as the improvement of the traffic AI and the management system.