Football Manager 25 Delayed to March 2025 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 November 2024 / 2,504 Views
Publisher Sega and developer Sports Interactive announced Football Manager 25 has been delayed from November 26 to Martch 2025. The game will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PC, iOS, and Android.
"After careful consideration, Sports Interactive have made the tough decision to further delay the release of Football Manager 25," reads an update from the developers.
"Following discussions with SEGA, our licensors, and partners, we have agreed the best course of action is to delay the launch until March 2025. Specific platform release dates will follow once confirmed."
The update continues, "In our last Development Update in September, we explained that we needed to push Football Manager 25‘s original release back to give ourselves more time to deliver the best possible experience for this first instalment in a new era of Football Manager.
"This additional time has not been sufficient to ensure the game quality and experience meets your expectations and our very high standards.
"In the previous blog we explained that it has been a difficult development cycle for the studio. Many things have been moving slower than we had predicted—despite everyone in the team working at an incredible pace to try and get everything done.
"Timelines were already tight and, as rightly pointed out by many of your recent comments, we were simply rushing too much and in danger of compromising our usual standards. This has put an enormous amount of pressure on everyone working across the studio, who are all passionately committed to delivering the best game possible.
"Football Manager 25 is the biggest technical and visual advancement in the series for a generation. We simply cannot compromise the delivery of this crucial juncture in Football Manager‘s history by rushing to release it in November.
"Of course, this is not where any of us expected to be seven weeks out from our release but, in the spirit of our studio values, we always consider the bigger picture—and the bigger picture here is that we need this additional time to deliver a game that we can all be proud of.
"For the large numbers of you who have already pre-ordered the game, we thank you very much for your trust and support. Given the delay, however, should you wish to claim a refund, please contact your retailer.
"Something you noted as missing from our announcement on September 30 was mention of Advanced Access on PC and Mac. We can confirm Advanced Access will be available ahead of the new release date and, when we are confident on how long that period will be, we will update you at the first opportunity. The new gameplay reveal will also now move to the end of January 2025.
"We are intensely aware that this will be massively disappointing for you. We share that disappointment and are extremely sorry.
"Thank you for reading and your patience. It means the world to us as we continue to work on creating a new era for Football Manager."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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That is a pretty significant delay for an annual sports franchise. The season it is based off will be nearly over by March.
Fair chance a good number skip it and just wait for FM26.
Agree on them likely skipping - think they'd be better off rep wise releasing a small update for 24 extending the season then doing this as 26.
The Man City debacle should be over by then too :D
That's... massive. By March hype for the season has died down. November alone is already quite late, this and FIFA really should release by end of Sept at the latest.
Tosh why soccer sucks, World Cup futbol/soccer vs NFL
Why do they always skip on PS4 version? If it's on Xbox One and even Switch.
A while ago I wondered this but it was around the time it started appearing on Xbox. Back when the most success was on PC and PSP/Vita, Sony stopped support for those so so did SI, then they added the Switch, which makes sense, logical step. Was already on mobile for years.
Anywho, I remember looking it up as I found it odd it was on everything but the, at the time, leading console. Found this article.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/09/football_manager_2021_is_not_on_ps5_ps4_because_sony_didnt_send_devkits
Which is an odd reason for it not being on PS4 honestly but guess it's a reason as any other. Obviously they long got a PS5 one so probably just can't be bothered with PS4 now.
Pretty sure you could just ask for one and Sony would send it, else how would Sony get any games on their system especially from new or indie studios.
Looking at the hardware they want to release the game on other than current-gen and PC, this is no surprise to me.
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