Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 | AGE 1000, West City, PS5 2027

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 is Bandai Namco's officially confirmed sequel to the long-running action RPG series, revealed at Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 on April 19. The game arrives 10 years after Xenoverse 2 and positions itself not as a direct continuation of the Conton City timeline, but as a full reset into an original DRAGON BALL universe created by the series' original author, Akira Toriyama.

The announcement confirmed a 2027 release window on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam. No Nintendo Switch 2 version has been announced. The game was first hinted in early 2026 with a teaser trailer showing the phrase "AGE 1000" against an unknown cityscape, prompting months of community speculation before the full reveal.

Xenoverse 3 retains the series' core format: players create a custom fighter and enter an original DRAGON BALL story built specifically for the game. The RPG framework, character customization, and squad-based narrative structure that defined Xenoverse 1 and 2 carry forward, recontextualized inside a world that has never appeared in the original manga or anime canon. Visit ObjectWire's video games hub for ongoing coverage.

The new setting is called West City, placed in a period designated AGE 1000, roughly 700 years past the final arcs of Dragon Ball Super. The announcement trailer shows a recognizable but transformed version of West City, Bulma's home city in the main canon, rebuilt into a sprawling metropolis with architecture and technology that blends DRAGON BALL aesthetic with far-future design elements.

Bandai Namco has emphasized that this world was "brought to life by the original author, Akira Toriyama," meaning the art direction, character designs, and world-building concepts originated with Toriyama before his passing in March 2024. This is a significant selling point: the AGE 1000 setting carries Toriyama's direct creative fingerprint rather than being developer-invented lore.

The AGE 1000 framework is not entirely new to Dragon Ball media. Dragon Ball Online, a Korean MMORPG released in 2010, originally explored AGE 1000 as its setting and was itself developed with Toriyama's direct involvement. Xenoverse 3 appears to build further on that unrealized world, giving fans their first proper console-quality experience in that timeline.

Players join an organization called the Great Saiyan Squad, which functions similarly to the Time Patrol from earlier Xenoverse entries: a structured group of fighters who respond to escalating threats within West City. The announcement trailer shows the player character being inducted into the squad by allied NPCs as events in AGE 1000 begin to take shape.

Character creation remains central to the experience. No specific races or class options have been confirmed for Xenoverse 3, though the trailer suggests a mix of human, Saiyan, and original-race player characters based on visual cues from the footage. The game is described as an "action-packed journey" with a cast of new characters unique to the AGE 1000 world.

Xenoverse 3 is confirmed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam, with a planned 2027 release. No specific month has been given. Xenoverse 2 launched in October 2016 and has sold over 10 million copies across all platforms as of 2023, making it one of Bandai Namco's best-performing DRAGON BALL titles.

The current-gen-only platform selection suggests a significant graphical and technical leap over Xenoverse 2, which was built for last-gen hardware and only later received a Nintendo Switch port. No Switch 2 version of Xenoverse 3 has been announced.

The clearest structural departure from Xenoverse 2 is the setting. Xenoverse 2 used Conton City as a hub and organized its story around visiting and protecting established DRAGON BALL canon events from timeline alteration. Xenoverse 3 abandons that framework entirely in favor of AGE 1000 West City, a world with no established canon events to protect or revisit.

This has significant gameplay implications. Without a fixed canon to anchor missions, the Great Saiyan Squad's structure and objectives will be fully original. Bandai Namco has not confirmed whether any characters from Xenoverse 1 or 2 will appear, including the Toki Toki City Hero or Supreme Kai of Time. The company stated "many more exciting details" will follow in the months ahead.

What Xenoverse 3 inherits is the foundational identity of the series: a custom hero, a squad-based narrative, and action RPG combat set inside a DRAGON BALL world. For all future Xenoverse 3 updates and coverage of upcoming titles, follow ObjectWire's video games hub and the GTA 6 tracker for comparison on major 2027 release windows.