{"id":88509,"date":"2026-08-28T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88509"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:44:28","slug":"fable-dev-happy-about-delay-to-2027-to-avoid-chaotic-window-and-we-all-know-that-means-gta-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88509","title":{"rendered":"Fable Dev Happy About Delay To 2027 To Avoid \u201cChaotic Window,\u201d And We All Know That Means GTA 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft&#8217;s new Fable game was supposed to launch this year, but it was delayed to February 2027. The game&#8217;s director, Ralph Fulton, said in an interview that he feels &#8220;great&#8221; about the launch timing for Fable, adding that shifting to 2027 helps the game avoid the &#8220;chaotic window&#8221; of its original timeframe of late 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fable-was-previously-aiming-for-an-october-launch-director-reveals-insisting-that-the-games-delay-wasnt-due-to-being-scared-of-other-big-games\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fable-was-previously-aiming-for-an-october-launch-director-reveals-insisting-that-the-games-delay-wasnt-due-to-being-scared-of-other-big-games\">Speaking to IGN<\/a>, Fulton said the reason for the delay &#8220;is pretty apparent to everybody.&#8221; He said he was &#8220;really looking forward to&#8221; launching Fable in 2026, saying he wasn&#8217;t happy about having another all-hands meeting with the team in January to tell them, &#8220;This is the year we ship Fable.&#8221; But alas, that&#8217;s what happened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The rationale for it is absolutely sound. I&#8217;m glad that we&#8217;re avoiding that chaotic window,&#8221; he said. In getting pushed to February 2027, Fable avoids launching near Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (October 23) and GTA 6 (November 19). <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vjQNvjTF56o  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fulton did not mention GTA 6 by name in this interview, but he did previously. In June, Fulton said Fable being delayed to 2027 helps Fable avoid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/fable-reboot-delay-was-disappointing-to-the-devs-but-avoiding-gta-6-makes-sense\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/fable-reboot-delay-was-disappointing-to-the-devs-but-avoiding-gta-6-makes-sense\/\">&#8220;really congested period&#8221; <\/a>for game releases and &#8220;obviously avoiding Grand Theft Auto.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Having a much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s new Fable game was supposed to launch this year, but it was delayed to February 2027. The game&#8217;s director, Ralph Fulton, said in an interview that he feels &#8220;great&#8221; about the launch timing for Fable, adding that shifting to 2027 helps the game avoid the &#8220;chaotic window&#8221; of its original timeframe of late 2026&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88512,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88509\/revisions\/88512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}