Less than a day after Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout announced its Nintendo Switch port, the battle royale game show is expanding to the Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One later this year, Mediatonic announced today.
First exploding onto the scene last year on PCs and PS4 and transforming into a streaming favorite, Fall Guys fans have been clamoring for Xbox inclusion since then. The game will arrive on Microsoft’s console platform this summer, so there’s still a little while to wait.
The game will likely be released as a digital download rather than as part of a game pass. Mediatonic posted on Jan. 20 that the game wasn’t coming to the Xbox Game Pass, even though the streaming service is seeing considerable growth in its subscriber count.
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For a game reliant on having a large, available player base, there’s no word as of yet about cross-platform potential. Right now, there’s no crossplay between the two available platforms, PC and PS4.
Mediatonic said that Xbox players will be joining Fall Guys “at a particularly exciting point” as the developers “continue to ramp-up [their] seasonal content.”
There’s no specific release date announced just yet, but it’s likely that both the Xbox and Switch ports will come along at the same date for a big boost in player numbers this summer.
Published: Feb 18, 2021 10:02 am