Avowed Launches February 17 for PS5, Same Day as Anniversary Update - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 January 2026 / 4,451 Views
Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Obsidian Entertainment announced the Avowed will launch for the PlayStation 5 on February 17, alongside the Anniversary Update.
The Anniversary Update will add New Game Plus, a Photo Mode, a new weapon type, changing appearance in the world, new character presets, and more Godlike feature presets.
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The game first released for the Xbox Series X|S, PC via Microsoft Store, Steam, and Battle.net, and Xbox Game Pass in February 2025.
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The games price has also been cut from $69.99 to $49.99 permanently on Xbox/PC and it will launch at $49.99 on PS5. So, no premium to be paid for it being new to the platform.
This looked very "mid" when it released.... I don't think it will find massive success just because they port it to playstation.
I didn't even know it came out yet.
If you ever feel useless, just look at the Xbox series and one lol
Welcome home, Obsidian
Great game...
I'm actually pretty shocked it wasn't announced for Switch 2 as well.
So seems the new Xbox releases (not Bethesda or ABK, and remasters/remakes) just have a years exclusivity to Xbox.
No, that wouldn't make sense. Xbox is selling worse now than it has at any point before during it's 25 year lifespan. Has to be another explanation for the year delay.
Well, its not just Avowed but also South of Midnight.
Also the upcoming Gears of War E-Day and Fable reboot aren’t even announced for the PS5 (yet).
Naw, I mean Forza was already announced for PS5... dont think they would announce it a year in advance... they are really all over the place. Don't think they have anything set in stone. I would wait for an actual Xbox release dare before I worry about PS5 release dates for fable and Gears. Halo has also be announced as a day and date... so it really is just completely circumstantial.
I seen a leak saying ONE of the reasons why Fable has been delayed so many times is because they have been testing it for Ps5 also so it can release same day as Xbox version. Who knows, just a leak/rumor, take it with loads of salt.
To be fair I assume they will eventually move to release date parity across all platforms it just seemed to me like they weren’t doing it yet.
What are you basing that on, as that doesn’t seem to be the pattern.
Avowed and South of Midnight might be due to timing of the changes but Forza Horizon 6 is not slated to release on PS5 until a later date and is not aligned with the Xbox and PC release.
Neither Gears of War E-Day or Fable have a PS5 release announced, and whilst it can be expected they will be released on PS5 it seems the indication is the release will be later.
It was already stated by Jez Corden at windows central. Any title that isn't day 1 on PS5 is simply because of a lack of resources and or time. Either the studio doesn't have the man power to develop for multiple machines at once or it was to late in the dev cycle. There's a reason Xbox hasn't outright confirmed your own theory if that was the case. While Sony on the other hand said it very clearly that you will wait a minimum of 1 year for their big tent pole titles.
I listened to the podcast and he spoke to MS about this and he was told this. It wasn't guess work. Halo is day 1 on PS. Doom was day 1, Outerworlds 2 was day 1. Indian Jones was four months later. It's all random because the studios are just doing what they can with the resources they have.
ITs most likely one of the two. They are forced to release all their games if they wanted for acquisition of Activision to go through. And second, Xbox is run by braindead people who cant think about any long term plans, they just think 2-3 hours ahead, anything more then that is just to much for them to handle.
