While the console conversation has been dominated by the likes of Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Persona 5, there’s one Early Access title on PC that’s been gathering a community as quietly as a runaway steam train. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an online, Battle Royale-esque survival game, and it’s already sold two million copies in less than a month.
Naturally there’s talk of a PlayStation 4 version, then, with producer Chang-han Kim telling Inven that a release for Sony’s system is very much on the cards. Of course, given that the PC edition is still in Early Access, you probably shouldn’t expect it to arrive on console for a good while yet – but it's nice to know that it’s in the pipeline.
For those of you who aren't aware, the game is being co-developed by Brendan Greene who’s a pioneer of these Hunger Games-like multiplayer modes. The gameplay loop essentially sees you plopped into a massive online map with nothing, and you need to fight for weapons and supplies in order to be the last surviving player. We wonder if The Last of Us: Part II could ape this concept for its multiplayer?
[source inven.co.kr, via kotaku.com, egmnow.com, dualshockers.com]
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Yes! I'm excited about this game coming to PS4! I only play console games, and I've heard so much about this game...only to be disappointed that it was on computer. I can't wait for this to land on the PS4. When it does, we should have a Pushsquare community event around this game
Surely it's Chang Ham Kim's battlegrounds?
This game is a lot of fun, easy to learn, and addictive once you get on a roll. Tons of fun with a team as well. Getting to the end of a match when your whole squad is alive is an amazing feeling of accomplishment, and really drives how important it is to communicate, spot enemies, share equipment, and use tactics to trick people or escape.
Yes, it is very much still early access, there are problems with car physics, lag, etc. Still the most fun I've had in an online battle royale, and it will only improve in the future.
I won't hold my breathe, consoles have been waiting for a game like this for ages, I class it in the same bracket as Dayz and H1Z1 and they still aren't on consoles. Ark is the only fun survival game that's come out that actually uses multiplayer and it's a joke it's the only one out
I won't hold my breath either as it's coming soon to Xbox one soon through the early access, PS4 won't get this till full release which hasn't been told of yet!! So expect it to be in like a year or two! Ugh why can't Sony put there tail between there legs and join the early access!! So many great games come to early access and us PS4 suffer
@Midzark "I want more unfinished games on my PS4."
I mean... I kinda understand their stance on this. I actually think we did a poll on it on the site a while back and most people were against it. Let me see if I can find it...
Can't find it. Maybe it's time to revisit the discussion.
@get2sammyb I'd have to agree on this one. Steam is basically the wild west in terms of games, you can find any and everything there, completed or not. I think consoles should hold a higher standard, and only have finished games. There's just too much room for error.
Then again, it seems like 90% of what comes out as "finished" feels like it's still in beta anyways since most devs just adapt the "wait and patch" method
@get2sammyb I remember and defo voted for no early access games. You may miss out on some good games like this but a lot of early access games on Steam are pretty much just scams and quick cash grabs. I prefer the Sony store to be curated .
See you never, same as H1z1 and DayZ, just let early access game's onto PS4 you don't have to buy em if you don't want to. They would probably sell better than any other game on PS4 atm, just like Ark did, that speak's volume's more than some crappy vote on this site, it's clearly what the majority of PS4 gamer's want.
@xMEADx It's a difficult one. I'll definitely do a new TP on it, time to revisit the conversation.
@get2sammyb Yes I'd love to have early access come to PS4, you do know that early access means "alpha/beta" games so yes they are "unfinished" but people don't have to play them if they don't want to! They always sign them up well saying there "not the finished game etc" if people play them and there buggy then moan that's there own fault! If players don't understand/like alpha/beta games then they shouldn't bother trying/buying them! Players like me and my friends love the pc steam early access to games, millions of people LOVE minecraft and that started as an alpha to which I remember it being so buggy! But look at it now.... thanks to all the players that DIDN'T moan but gave positive feedback it's a MASSIVE hit now! Arc is slowly heading in the same direction and thats only on PSN because of player demand!! Just cause you might not like "unfinished games" don't mean that's the same for everyone!
@get2sammyb Sorry didn't see reply, I agree. I doubt many of the reader's opinion's will have changed, nothing wrong with that I just don't see the harm it would do to let them on PS4, if you don't want to play them don't buy them!
This game actually has a chance of being released. The developers release patches and fixes pretty often and they seem to be taking a proper release seriously. All we can do is hope.
keen as hopefully its out soon
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