Stardew Valley’s major 1.6 update will be released on Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X on Nov. 4, developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone announced Sunday on X.
The 1.6 update originally launched on Windows PC on March 19, but the console and mobile versions took Barone and team a little longer than expected. “I’ve always released on PC first, because it’s sort of a ‘beta test’ to make sure there are no critical (e.g. save-destroying) bugs, which are a much bigger deal on consoles because they can’t be patched out as quickly,” Barone said in response to a Stardew Valley player. “However, I never intended for the delay to be this long.”
The new Stardew Valley update was super popular on Windows PC, easily breaking the game’s concurrent player record with a peak of 147,612 — more than double the peak when the game was released in 2016. Stardew Valley remains popular, with more than 87,000 concurrent players within the past 24 hours. The console and mobile update is sure to send those numbers skyrocketing once again.
As for the 1.6 update itself, it ended up being a lot bigger than expected, with a new animal-focused farm type, a three-day spring festival, two mini festivals, and an event for summer — on top of pages and pages’ worth of smaller fixes. As always, the update is entirely free. Since the 1.6 update was released on PC in March, it has received several smaller, mostly bug-fixing updates. The console and mobile release in November will include everything through the version 1.6.9 patch, Barone said.
Source：https://www.polygon.com/news/455030/stardew-valley-1-6-release-date-switch-console-mobile
