Football Manager 2023 will be officially released for the PlayStation 5 console on February 1. The latest title in the football management game series has been available for PC and Xbox consoles since last year, but a PlayStation version was delayed due to controversy over dev kits.
Developer Sports Interactive reports that it, along with publisher SEGA, has been working closely with Sony to resolve previous “unforeseen complications” and that people are ‘relieved’ that the ‘frustration and uncertainty surrounding the release’ is coming to an end. PlayStation Plus subscribers can take advantage of a 20 percent discount until February 14.
The developer acknowledges that it is unusual to release a Football Manager game during the transfer window for professional footballers, but they have say prioritized the game’s release as soon as possible after the previous postponement. That postponement was announced in November last year and no new release date was given at that time.
The arrival of the game on PlayStation 5 marks the end of a two-year period in which no new Football Manager was released. title has been released for the PlayStation consoles. Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson, in September 2020 explained why. He indicated that Xbox had been asking and working for years to return the games to the Microsoft consoles, but that Sony had a different approach. Jacobson explained that Microsoft did send the necessary development kits, but Sony did not send them despite discussions about this.
