Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson recently released a statement on the official Football Manager website, detailing the impact that COVID-19 has had on the future plans for the series, confirming that this year’s game will be released a little later than the company had originally intended.
What’s particularly interesting though is the following statement:
Our games will be on more platforms and available on more stores than ever before when they’re released later this year but, with regards to features and release dates, it’s a little too early for us to talk about the specifics right now.
With the assertion that Football Manager will be available on more platforms and stores than ever, this may well mean that Football Manager is returning to home consoles for the first time in over a decade.
Football Manager Touch is currently available for the Nintendo Switch and in the past we’ve seen other handheld Football Manager games released for both the PS Vita and the PSP. In terms of home console releases, however; Football Manager 2008 was the last game released, back in 2008 on the Xbox 360.
As stated by Miles Jacobson; it’s too early for them to start talking about the specifics just yet, but hopefully in the coming months we’ll learn a little more about the companies plans moving forward, and with the new console generation on the horizon, this could certainly be the perfect opportunity to test out the power and capabilities of the new consoles and potentially bring the Football Manager series to a whole new audience by making the game available for both the PS5 and the Xbox Series X.
As and when further details become available, we’ll be covering them here and will definitely be keeping our fingers crossed that a home console release is indeed coming!
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