Peggle 2 is no longer a launch game for Xbox One.
Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox One will debut on Nov. 22. Alongside the new system, gamers can pick up EA shooter Battlefield 4 or download titles like Microsoft fighter Killer Instinct. Xbox One owners will have to wait, however, for physics puzzler Peggle 2.
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“Peggle 2 is a ‘launch timeframe’ title,” PopCap senior director of PR Garth Chouteau told GamesBeat over e-mail. “But [it] will not launch day-and-date with the Xbox One — instead, it will become available a few weeks later in December.”
The studio isn’t announcing a specific launch date at this time.
This is contrary to what Microsoft has said since the European Gamescom industry event in August. At that time, Microsoft stated that Peggle 2 would debut on Xbox One’s launch day. We wrote about that in an article with the now out-of-date headline: “Peggle 2 is an Xbox One launch game.”
In response to that, PopCap says it might have “mischaracterized” Peggle 2 as a launch game when it intended to position it as a launch-window release. If that’s the case, it fooled Microsoft as well.
Microsoft’s own Xbox News website still has Peggle 2 (and Watch Dogs) listed as launch-day games in a post from Aug. 20.
Chouteau did confirm that more info regarding Peggle 2 is coming soon.