Bandai Namco has narrowed the release window for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3, the multiplayer-enabled brawler it had previously dated only to 2027. The publisher now places the game in the second half of that year, cutting a twelve-month window down to roughly six months. No date has been set.
Producer Masayuki Hirano tied the change to what players have told the team across a run of information drops, the most recent of which covered battle customization and PvE missions. He said the studio had gone back to the development team with that input and had already named areas it intends to change in response.
Based on the feedback and survey results we have gathered, we have already held discussions with the development team and announced certain areas where we intend to make improvements in response.
Hirano framed the narrower window as the cost of meeting the team's plans for the game both at launch and afterwards. "Dragon Ball Xenoverse is a series that we build together with the players through launch, and throughout its post launch life as well," he said, adding that to fully realize those ambitions for the launch experience and the content the team plans to operate and support later, "the release window is currently set for the latter half of 2027."
He also signalled a quiet stretch ahead, telling players the team may keep them waiting a little longer before its next update while saying it was committed to making 2027 a strong year for Dragon Ball games. Bandai Namco has not said what that next update will cover.
Xenoverse 3 follows a 2016 entry in the series. IGN, which reported the window change, has had two hands-on sessions with the game: the first in June, and a more recent one it wrote up as a preview.
