Electronic Arts has decided to turn its back on Star Wars Jedi: Survivors. The game will be entitled to a port on PS4 and Xbox One, but we do not know when.
The PS4 and Xbox One aren’t dead and buried just yet. While the two consoles will celebrate their tenth anniversary in November – a fairly high longevity for consoles – some publishers are not yet ready to turn the page, to the point of making questionable decisions. As GameSpot announced in an article published on August 1, Electronic Arts has decided to give a second chance to Star Wars Jedi: Survivors.
The sequel to the adventures of the Jedi Cal Kestis, available today on PS5, Xbox Series S / X and PC, will be entitled to PS4 and Xbox One versions. No release date has been communicated.
During the conference presenting the latest financial results, Andrew Wilson, head of Electronic Arts, was content to indicate: ” Thanks to the strength of this legendary saga and due to a request from the community, our developer team is committed to bringing this Jedi experience to PS4 and Xbox One. He still forgot the main reason: money, since the two consoles still represent a large audience.
We wish EA good luck for Star Wars Jedi: Survivors on PS4 and Xbox One
This desire to provide breathing assistance to the PS4 and Xbox One is commendable if we place ourselves on the side of owners who have not yet crossed the threshold of the current generation (or would not be in possession of a PC sufficiently powerful). However, from a creative point of view, it makes no sense. Especially when we refer to the comments made by Stig Asmussen, the creative director of Star Wars Jedi: Survivorin PLAY magazine.
In February, the interested party explained that the idea was to take advantage of the power of the new consoles to take his action / adventure game to a new level. Larger and more detailed levels, increased variety of enemies, visual gains, do you want some, here are some points that should have been reviewed if the game had been designed for all consoles, which was not the initial wish of RespawnEntertainment. ” Star Wars Jedi: Survivor evolves the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gameplay experience in every way “, could we read in the launch press release. Released in 2019, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was already pushing the boundaries of the PS4 and Xbox One. These comments join those of Guerrilla Games, which revealed that the PS4 had clamped down Horizon Forbidden West.
We therefore wish good luck to Respawn Entertainment to ensure a quality port, knowing that the optimization of the PC version of Survivor was catastrophic on launch day. Maybe this adaptation will run fine on PS4 and Xbox One, but recent history does not invite optimism (remember Cyberpunk 2077). It will take a good dose of sorcery to make it work, as it did for Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy. It’s up to Respawn Entertainment to prove us wrong. May the Force be with the studio, which will undoubtedly waste resources on this project when there are so many others in its drawers.
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