Quantic Dream’s ambitious otherworld excursion Beyond: Two Souls may have proved distinctly divisive, but it seems that the Parisian studio is serious about bringing the game to the PlayStation 4. Hot on the heels of last week’s next-gen character model shots, NeoGAF user Dragonbane has uncovered some DualShock 4 input code which almost certainly hints at a re-release of the spiritual excursion on Sony’s latest machine.
Apparently, the code was published on a programmer’s portfolio, but the original source has since been removed. Still, it shows how the platform holder’s latest peripheral could be used to control protagonist Jodie Holmes in an updated version of the game. A second snippet uncovered by the same poster references a ‘Director’s Cut’ edition of the release, and hints at some removed scenes that could make a reappearance, such as one where you play as a baby.
Authentic or not, we suspect that an enhanced iteration is very much on the agenda – especially seeing as the game runs on the same engine that the developer’s using for its currently unannounced PS4 project. Would you like to experience actress Ellen Page’s tortured expressions for a second time? Try not to cry in the comments section below.
[source neogaf.com, via dualshockers.com]
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I've been waiting on any rumor or speculation to port this to PS4. I'm finally glad to hear it is.
@iSolipsistJudas I personally think you're going to see a lot of these. Puppeteer, Beyond, Uncharted, possibly even God of War — it just makes sense to port the games, especially with the PS4 capturing ex-Xbox gamers.
Never played it on ps3 so its good news that it'll b in ps4.
Well I like to see if this come true
@get2sammyb Yea I'm hoping for this, but the obvious trilogies like Uncharted & hopefully GoW trilogy makes the ports, but in turn, this is what PlayStation Now can be used for. Sony can make more money with that rather than porting.
@get2sammyb get a grip. No xbox 360 gamers in their right mind would jump over to ps4... oh wait never mind I'm one of them haha I did own a ps3 though, but the only time I ever used it was for exclusive games uncharted, the last of us, and a few more.. but this time around my ps4 is getting a lot more play than xbox one. I honestly can't get over how much better the ps4 is than the xbox one.. and this is coming from someone who has been a hardcore xbox gamer for a lot of years. It's better in every way, all the way down to the controller which is most surprising of all. Man I love that dualshock 4.
@get2sammyb I get what you say Sammy but if Sony just stick to The Last of Us, Beyond & Puppeteer as ports then that's fine but if they start doing that with R&C, Uncharted, GoW & LBP then it loses massive selling points for PS Now.
More ports. Great the console is selling, unfortunately Sony doesn't seem to feel the need to deliver actual PS4 games for those of us who were PS3 owners who already bought and played games like The Last of Us and Beyond last generation. I didn't drop $400 on a new console to replay old games. This is a worse first year than PS3. The sales are better, the lineup is terrible though. Funny how Nintendo got killed for this but everybody is saying 'yeah, you go Sony,' when its doing the same damn thing. People crapped on the Wind Waker re-release, people are laughing that MS' next Halo release may be a remake of Halo 2. At least these are classics that were released a long time ago though. There is no reason that the first year of a console should be filled with ports of games barely over a year old, don't give a damn what anybody says.
@Gamer83
You mad bro??
Personally I thing it's the GREATEST thing EVER if they release this game on the PS4. So that people like me who didn't have the chance to play it get to enjoy it to. Only with better graphics, better console and better everything.
Not happy about barely year old ports? Yeah. I didn't buy a PS4 to play games I already played a million times on PS3. Apparently outside of Sucker Punch Sony's first parties can't be bothered to release anything worth a sh*t this year though.
@Gamer83 Can't please everyone
@DaftPlayStation
You can try though and filling a new console with ports of games still readily available on the last gen console is not trying.
@Gamer83. If you went to the front page you saw an article about Sony trademarking two new games. It seems you bought the ps4 to early. I havent bought it since i wait for games like uncharted 4 or a new god of war. Maybe wait next generation ?
Honestly not excited about this one but I cant wait to know what new game they are working on and when it would be out. I think they can do both at the same time so its cool for people interested in Beyond 2souls
@Gamer83 Maybe this will make you happy https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2014/04/could_entwined_and_kill_strain_be_sonys_next_big_ps4_titles
@Sanquine
Thanks for the purchasing advice, I'll be sure to not take it into consideration. I'll buy what I can afford, when I want to buy it. I spent my $400, giving Sony the benefit of the doubt and just as anybody else has the right to kiss the company's a$$ and never complain (which is 99% of the Sony fanbase), I have just as much a right to get pissed if I feel the company isn't delivering. In the first year for PS3, as bad as it was on the whole thanks to lazy third party porting efforts, Sony was at least doing what it could to make the system seem like a good purchase. Resistance, Ratchet & Clank, Heavenly Sword, MotorStorm, Warhawk, Uncharted. It wasn't wasting time with old ports. And the excuse 'while they're trying to convert a lot of Xbox gamers,' is just lame. I don't care if they want to port games like Beyond or what will go down as a classic like The Last of Us, over to the system eventually, but after just one year? That's time that should've been spent trying to get Uncharted 4, undoubtedly a 2015 release, out this year. What we're left with? inFamous and not much else. I'll believe Drive Club is a 2014 release when I actually see it on the shelves, and I'm being generous giving Sony that one because even if it does release this year that game looks like it's going to suck. The Order has potential that's about it. Now, being fair, the third party multiplats seem like they mostly perform better on PS4 which is a plus. But the games have to be good for that to really matter. I'm sure Batman: Arkham Knight will be a great game, the other ones? Very up in the air. The Evil Within, Destiny, Watch Dogs, all could end up being great games. If they are, I can't act like and say that doesn't sort of make up for the lack of first party content because a great game is a great game regardless of exclusivity. However, if those third party releases suck that makes the lack of good exclusive content even worse.
@Gamer83 And no you can't it's not possible to please everysingle parson in the world
@DaftPlayStation
Of course it's not possible to please everybody, it is possible to try. Once again, you and I will have to agree to disagree. Keep praising Sony for its lack of anything worth a damn on PS4 in 2014, I'll keep bashing the hell out of it until it gets its act together.
@Gamer83 It doesn't matter how hard you try its inpossible period And tell me something mr know it all how does porting a game have any bad effect on a new game?
@Gamer83 it's lack of anything worth a damn Once again that's just yor opinion and personal preference there just ain't to many games on ps4 that appeal to you but to me there are plenty of games on ps4 that make it worth a damn
@DaftPlayStation
Of course it's my opinion and I'm going to keep saying the lineup sucks until I see Sony try to change that. Filling the console with ports doesn't do that.
And as for ports effecting other games. It won't have an adverse effect on Uncharted's quality and I never said it would. The time being spent on the port though is time that could be spent getting Uncharted 4 done. I'd rather Naughty Dog be focusing all of its effort on Uncharted 4 right now, especially with key people having left the project. It's possible the game never would've made 2014 anyway, but with some of the team having to deal with The Last of Us remastered it makes it an absolute certainty that Uncharted is not this year. The remaster could've waited.
@get2sammyb I drooled a little when you said God of War... 3 would be a treat on PS4!
I must say tho, this is good news. I preordered this game, but sold it on the day it arrived (within 1 minute of picking up the parcel) due to sudden change in financial circumstance heh. Would love to experience it in glorious H... Wait.
Played through Beyond twice now & I'd gladly play through it again on Ps4. Sony's best first-party (I think QD are the only studio not owned by Sony that you'd think were) release last year for me and it would be good to see the entirety of Quantic Dreams engine being used instead of just some of its Ps4 aspects like on the Ps3 version. If you think of it that way, a remaster using the full brunt of their engine would be a nice taster of whats in store from the studio on a technical level with whatever they've got planned next. Now that's intriguing....
@Gamer83 I would be more than happy with a year or two of nothing but late gen PS3 ports with a sprinkling of indies and made for next gen or two.
@Gamer83 - Bonus points for Heavenly Sword. Lair came out pretty early too I think. I know it got panned for bad controls but I got it after the patch and it was something different to play.
I think Sony is partly the victim of circumstances. Drive Club was supposed to be ready at release, as was Watch Dogs. If those 2 release on schedule PS4 at least has some games. They had new IP knack but that got panned and was probably a mistake to begin with. With inFamous released the rest of the year does look a bit empty, and that is on Sony.
At this point Sony doesnt seem that interested in making games, only making money. And ports are quick and easy. MLB The Show will probably make them a few bucks, and its an exclusive, so there is that. mM should have something at E3, they've been too quite too long. And Madden. And FIFA. So its not completely empty, it's just devoid of good 1st party games, which does seem a shame. If youre gonna breed a stud you should race it, not walk it around the infield for photo ops.
@rjejr
Sony is winning the race right now, by a wide margin, so I have to give it that it must be doing something right. Looking around the comment sections, I'm in the vast minority of people who don't care for ports. I just find it funny that people were slamming Nintendo for ports but when Sony has a similar terrible first year lineup for the PS4 it's ok because we get 'remasters' like TLoU. It is what it is. I'm just hoping 3 years down the line that I'll be able to forget all about the slow start because I'm convinced at this point it's 2016 before this piece of sh*t is more than a doorstop. Sony claims it has a great E3 lineup, but Sony's idea of great and mine have not aligned in recent months. If it's ports and indie games, that's not exactly what I'd call stellar.
@mitcHELLspawn I gave my xbox one to my brother used it for about two days and went back to my ps4
honestly the xbox one was a huge disappointment, first time I ever gave away a console too, normaly I get them all but this time I just wasn't intrested I thought the os was clunky, I didn't like the changes to the controller and it's install speed was terrible in fact I think the ps3 installs games faster than the xb1 also I don't think getting titanfall with it helped that game was in no way worth upgrading for
Frankly, I'm with Gamer83.
How can you seriously sit back and be happy that you paid for a PS4 in order to play PS3 games? Backwards compatibility be damned. Apparently, Sony fans are more than happy to re-buy last-gen games and slightly shinier cross-gen games. This reeks of a company desperate to make a quick buck.
@Gamer83I have to react though Im sorry for doing so a bit late. I dont think they are 'wasting time' making ports. Quantic dreams can work on both (new and port) games at the same time and generally speaking I dont think you d get new games faster as it takes only a small team to remaster games (there also can be ports worked on by other companies that wouldnt be making new games anyway). I know its a bit irritating when you already played those games but I see ports as just additional games to new games that take longer to make and will be out in due time anyway. Besides Im guessing it was the dev choice to port the games.
I always wanted to play it but never had a ps3 to play it, so I would welcome this.
If you could Like people's comments on here then everything @Gamer83 has said would be getting a Like. I haven't bought this machine to play games that aren't even a year old. People can stick their head in the sand and say these ports are great - someone even said he'd be happy to have nothing but ports for the first two years of PS4 - but they're not, it's just greed by Sony. If these ports were the original versions released on PSN for, say, £15-£25 (more for DLC included) I wouldn't have a problem but the fact they give it the tiniest visual polish and have the cheek to charge full whack is just disgusting. "For the gamers"? Bull****. Also interesting how Sony fanboys have been slagging Nintendo off for rehashing the same games but are now praising Sony for releasing not a rehash but the EXACT SAME game. PS4, this far, is the worst console I have owned. That will change by the end of the year when proper games are out but at the moment anyone who asks me "should I get a PS4" I can't help but answer "no."
I only played the demo for this game, so I would welcome this chance to play it. I would love to see more ports.
@rastamadeus while I do agree with you to an extent, some of the games really do benefit from a next gen makeover. TOMB RAIDER DE for instance, looks amazing on ps4, played it on ps3 and by the new gods and the old is there a difference. but paying full price for a game that has already been released does seem a little ridiculous. I guess what it comes down to is your willingness to pay full price for a game that has been previously released, which I am more than willing. I see it as paying respect to the amazing developers for making an amazing game, which I am more than happy to do. I respect your opinion, but not everyone sees it your way, many, in fact, do not.
I think the problem in this thread is that you're all making the assumption that nothing new is in the works. Just because you haven't seen it yet doesn't mean that it isn't in the works. And I actually think that the PS4 has had an excellent first few months, but, there you go...
So i'm reading how devoid of games the ps4 line up is. i'm pretty sure that sony doesn't discuss it's business plan with just anyone. we have no clue what's coming. just because you aren't in sony's trust circle doesn't mean there aren't games. it seems a bit odd to get so angry because sony didn't personally tell you all of the games that are coming out. I am not a fan boy. I have a WII U, XBO, and PS4. I love them all separately, as individual consoles. I just think getting angry because you assume there are no games is emotion that could be spent on something else, focused towards anything else, like that homeless dude that stole your candy corn, or that pair of mating dogs in your yard every morning. see. could be worse guys. though I do agree Nintendo got a lot of flack for the same thing.
@get2sammyb
exactly.
@get2sammyb @SunnyShores Thank you both for having common sense something @rastamadeus and @Gamer83 clearly don't have
@Gamer83 - "before this piece of sh*t is more than a doorstop."
I'm assuming thats in reference to the non-indie, non-port game line-up, not the hardware itself, which is easily arguably the best home console hardware available at the moment, which I believe contributes more to console sales than the games. Unless you're arguing Wii U and X1 are better hardware, then you've lost me, though I do like the Gamepad.
And I'ld argue (of course) the PS4 is off to a better game start than Wii U. Yes PS4 is port heavy, but Wii U really only had 1 port, Windwaker HD, and that took a year to release. And Wii U was denied Rayman Legends for 6 months, similar to Drive Club and W_D. And Pikimn 3 was a "launch window" title that took 10 months to release. Wii U is getting a bunch of indies now, but that's 1 1/2 years after launch, only 6 months for PS4. So overall they have similar looking game libraries now, but that's a 1 year head start for Wii U. This E3 needs to have big game surprises for both consoles, cause at the moment they both look sad for the 2nd half of 2014, but at least PS4 has Assassins Creed and Batman and Destiny and The Order and all the sports games I mentioned yesterday. Wii U has a probable 2015 SSB game. I'ld say they're even now, but Wii U owners have suffered longer, and PS4 has much more upside. On the bright side, since you own both, you should always have something to play Just not Uncharted 4, God of War or anything by Insomniac since they've gone over to the dark side.
@get2sammyb - "And I actually think that the PS4 has had an excellent first few months, but, there you go..."
Yeah but you would have said that just for Resogun.
@DaftPlayStation
it's all a matter of perspective. what some see as a waste, others see as valuable. some people don't know and they get angry, some people don't know and get excited. I for one am excited by the sure to be amazing games that I don't know about yet.
@Gamer83 I see where you're coming from but keep in mind not everyone owned a ps3 like myself so we didn't get a chance to play these games. Them releasing ps4 ports actually saves us from having to spend whatever the ps3 costs now just to play games like tlou and instead putting that money towards buying ps4 games even if they're just ports of previously released games, and believe me, I know people that went out and bought a ps3 just to play gta5 when they could've bought 4-5 games for their new console.
Sorry if Sony hasn't met your expectations but seriously don't let it get the best of your emotions when you don't get your way.
@SunnyShores I'm excited too and your right it is all a matter of perspective my problem with @ratsamadeus and @Gamer83 is that they have a pessimistic perspective on everything watch is why i disagree with them most of the time
@DaftPlayStation
I also disagree with them, but I do see where they are coming from. without knowing of the games, it can seem a little empty out there. and many people want new games, not old games. I am personally excited for some ports as I loved the games on my ps3, but I sold my ps3. so it would be nice to visit them on my ps4. with respect I disagree with @ratsamadeus and @Gamer83 but like I said I do understand their point of view.
@SunnyShores @THEundying27 @get2sammyb
Finally someone has something smart to say.
@SunnyShores Yeah i see where there coming from too nevertheless i still disagree with them and think they are wrong but maybe I'm a little bias since i like ports and love indie games
@DaftPlayStation
I love ports and indie games as well. I don't think that makes us biased. I don't think........does it? now you got me questioning myself
@get2sammyb Someone with some sense. Those monkeys above should think before they write something on this wall. I haven't bought the PS4 yet since i wait before games i want release. This happens to the early buyers of the system. They just need to have some patience. Games will come Some just forgot how worse the first 2 years of playstation 3 were in comparison to the PS4.
@Gamer83 @rastamadeus
The dislikes would outweigh the likes. Wow! So much flaws and vapourware its almost funny. But for discussion sake since you've dragged it out into an argument.
1. You two say you didn't buy the PS4 for indies or ports, what did you buy it for? Vapourware exclusives that the platform holder hasn't shown off yet? If you don't like whats on offer at launch and whats coming, thats your fault. You don't hear someone complaining after they have made the purchase (if they were informed like you two), that they now regret it. Ride it out or quit B*******, frankly i'm sick of hearing it every single time the opportunity arises.
2. That sony fanboys hypocrisy/remaster claim? That would be valid if you could A. Pin that on individuals rather than just make the vague claim. B. Not see how it works the other way round too, the fact that you haven't made that distinction and are generalising just shows your bias.
3. Assumptions: Its just like Sammy said "you're all making the assumption that nothing new is in the works. Just because you haven't seen it yet doesn't mean that it isn't in the works." Unless you can prove otherwise, don't talk non-sense. No ones working on Vita because no one cares, PS3 support is fading, so do you honestly expect anyone to believe the ludicrous claim that no ones working on PS4 games? Thats where the claims by others such as stupidity comes in. Using lay offs and cancellations to back up those claims is also ludicrous.
4. Vapourware & rumours: when you start to take those two seriously when unverified and unconfirmed, just because PS4 is supposedly having a worse year than predecessors and you don't have enough games for your liking.
We are no nowhere near E3/Gamescom/TGS and your already making those claims? Foolish. When we pass two events and nothing happens, we've believe you until then no thanks.
Question? What were you expecting for PS4? That wasn't announced for before November launch? Were you hoping that mystery exclusives would pop out of thin air.
@DaftPlayStation nah man, its called having an opinion and sticking to your guns. If you worked for an independent developer that would make you biased.
@DaftPlayStation
I guess you could call it a pessimistic point of view but I'm not going to be positive just to get some people I don't know and will never meet to like me. If you have such a problem with my what I post and my 'pessimistic' attitude go ahead and report every comment I make. Then you can get your wish and I'll be banned. My view of the PS4 will not change any time soon it looks like as, imo, 2014 is a barren wasteland, so don't really know what else to tell you. Unfortunately there's no ignore button on this website like Gamespot used to have, that would solve a lot of problems.
@Gamer83 I will try to ignore you from now on
@Big-Boss Thank you man
I would hope they decide to bring this game to ps4 . The game was amazing !
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