
This is the first canonical game of the series to have Rollback Netcode (and the second mainline game with this feature, the first being The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match). The game will have crossplay between PS4 and PS5 and between Steam and Epic Games. The game will be released for PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows 10, Steam and Epic Games. In June of the same year, SNK announced that the game had been postponed once again and will be released in the February 17, 2022, due to the rising cases of COVID-19 and the state of emergency in Japan. More details were revealed on January 7, 2021. However, the date was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was officially announced at EVO 2019 and was originally slated for release in 2020.

The King of Fighters XV, officially abbreviated as KOF XV, is the upcoming fifteenth instalment of The King of Fighters series.
