House Flipper 2 Console Release Date Pushed Back

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S owners will have to wait a little bit longer before they can play House Flipper 2, as the game's developer has announced that its upcoming console ports have just been delayed. The cozy building simulator was originally supposed to launch on Sony's and Microsoft's current generation systems this March.

Released on PC last December as a sequel to developer Empyrean's popular House Flipper, House Flipper 2 offered fans an improved gaming experience that featured better visuals and offered more creative freedom when compared to its predecessor from 2018. The Unity engine-based title co-created by Frozen District was set to become available on consoles this March 21, but that date has been pushed back, partly in an effort to give the developers more time to apply some polish.

In a recently released trailer, Frozen District revealed that House Flipper 2's PS5 and Xbox Series X/S ports will now come out on April 10. This was done to ensure that the console versions of the game would be completely aligned with the PC build, Frozen District explained. The developer also said that the certification process for the console releases of House Flipper 2 took longer than intended to finish. This kind of issue has affected releases in the past, like when an unexpected delay in the certification process slightly delayed the launch of the Xbox Series X/S versions of Ark: Survival Ascended.

Lengthy certifications can sometimes also lead to PC and console versions of games having nonidentical feature sets. For example, the differences between the Steam and Xbox builds of Palworld were once attributed to updates for the latter system being held up by Microsoft's certification process.

As a result of the console releases of House Flipper 2 being pushed back, the title can be further fine-tuned and optimized to guarantee the best possible gaming experience across all platforms, according to Frozen District. Meanwhile, the game still recently received its