Football Manager 2023 will be released on February 1 for PlayStation 5

Football Manager 2023 will receive an official release for the PlayStation 5 console on February 1. This latest title in the football management game series has been available for PC and Xbox consoles since last year, but a PlayStation version failed to materialize due to controversy over dev kits.

Developer Sports Interactive reports that it, along with publisher SEGA, has worked closely with Sony to resolve previous ‘unforeseen complications’ and that they are ‘relieved’ that the ‘frustration and uncertainty surrounding the release’ is coming to an end. PlayStation Plus subscribers can enjoy 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 says it has prioritized releasing the game as quickly as possible following 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 the PlayStation 5 ends a two-year period in which no new Football Manager title was released for the PlayStation consoles. Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson announced in September 2020 what was the reason for that. He indicated that Xbox had been asking and working for years to return the games to Microsoft consoles, but that Sony had taken a different approach. Jacobson explained that Microsoft sent the necessary development kits, but that Sony did not send them, despite discussions about it.