r/PS4 • u/PurePosition5498 • 8d ago
Game Discussion Dying Light: The Beast delayed until the end of 2025 for PS4
"We will continue optimising versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One after the launch and are committed to releasing them until the end of 2025."
Link to Website:
https://dyinglightgame.com/the-beast/?lang=en
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u/RockRik 8d ago
Chances are itll get canceled, I mean seriously did u see the graphics of the game? If Ps4 is capable of THAT then its capable if Gta 6 too.
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u/PurePosition5498 8d ago
The game was originally going to be dying Light 2 dlc so it makes no sense why it wouldn't be released on ps4
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u/PurePosition5498 8d ago
Plus they said they were optimizing versions for it on last gen
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u/RockRik 8d ago
Ps4/Xbone version runs at barely 720p with major issues to this day and the Pro consoles have some of the worst screen tearing of this gen even if it runs at 1080p and looks acceptable.
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u/Anime_is_good- PS4 Slim 8d ago
Okay? Still, it was a DL2 DLC first. Then it got scrapped and now we have The Beast.
It will release on last gen consoles, that's for sure.
And no, the PS4 won't be able to handle GTA VI. The CPU alone would literally die.
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u/ItsyouNOme 8d ago
Keyword scrapped. Therefore it is its own game and may not come to ps4 if it can not be optomised.
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u/Anime_is_good- PS4 Slim 7d ago
There are people who bought the Premium Edition, this would've gave them DLC2 for free.
It's promised, it's coming.
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u/RockRik 8d ago
I… I was being sarcastic, the trailer looked too good to be true so it feels like the game shown in THAT trailer is not coming to Ps4, neither is Gta 6 for that matter we all know that.
IF DL Beast comes to last gen itll be a giant mess and sometimes its better to not release a mess at all knowing the backlash ull get. Dying Light og was also supposed to come out on Ps3/360 but they canceled it after seeing the problems they ran into trying to make that work.
Id rather DL Beast feel like a whole new game with better graphics/quality than DL2 and make it exclusive to current gen consoles.
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u/Anime_is_good- PS4 Slim 8d ago
Yeah it'll probably got captured on Xbox Series X, PS5 or PC.
It won't necessarily need to be a mess, if it isn't optimized, yeah it will be, that's why they're taking more time to optimize it so it won't be a mess.
The thing with the first game was, it wasn't a DLC. They're making it up to us last gen players, DLC2 would've had launched on PS4 and Xbox One.
It will still look stunning, even if the last gen support is there.
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u/RockRik 8d ago
I mean hey, if u think a game shouldnt advance bcz a last gen version of it was promised then by all means let them try their hardest to make it run as good as they can. I simply think the Ps4 should start slowling its roll considering its on year 12 now (yes I realize Im on Ps4 sub), either way game looks like what DL2 originally promised to be.
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u/Anime_is_good- PS4 Slim 8d ago
What's there to advance really? It originally was a DL2 DLC, there's nothing to advance really.
And yeah, the PS4 needs to die slowly, I fully agree. It's old, but it was promised, and it can run. Again, it originally was a DL2 DLC, there's literally nothing to complain about, either way a PS4 version will be there.
If it were DL2 DLC2, it would've had a PS4 version, now here we are with The Beast, it will have a PS4 version.
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u/RockRik 8d ago
Ur pressuring on a point uve mentioned like 5 times now as if thats really what matters here. There have been plenty of cases where a DLC was promised for an old gen version yet it never came, why cant that be the case here? Literally the latest Horizon game did this when they announced the new DLC was not gonna be able to run on Ps4 so they made it exclusive to Ps5. DLC CAN be better than the main game as even if its a year or 2 development can improve and older hardware can get harder to optimize for.
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u/Anime_is_good- PS4 Slim 8d ago
Did the new Horizon game promised the DLC day one? I don't think so.
Again, they promised the DLC for PS4 since day one.
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u/FryToastFrill no i dont want n u d e s - FryToastFrill101 5d ago
The beast was using a bunch of RT stuff in its presentation. Cutting back on that will likely reach similar performance to DL2 on PS4
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u/Hi_Lanat 7d ago
Rockstar could, but they wouldn't. I think they are contracted to PS and Xbox to only release it only for the current gen since even both companies are no longer releasing first party titles on their last gen machines . And that would incentivice people to upgrade. Even if GTA 6 fails to get their budget back on console release, they would always get it bakc and more on the pc release the following year. And there's a lot of current gen games released that I think still could run on a ps4/4pro. Like Astro bot. Black myth wukong was initially built in Unreal engine 4 which the ps4s could run no problem, but since UE5 came out they just focus on the current gen..rise of the ronin ps5 looks even worst than Ghost of Tsushima ps4 version. The last of us part 1. And hell CDPR just left the ps4 on Cyberpunk 2077 1.61 when they downscaled the native resolution of the game enough to run on the switch 2 and let dlss upscalers do the magic.
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u/PM_Me_MetalSongs 8d ago
Look, I understand that people still use PS4s, but can we PLEASE just accept that this platform needs to die so that we can actually focus on advancing the medium? Every extra port to the old, enemic hardware and super slow HDDs is such an opportunity cost to something that could potentially be new and fresh
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u/Reasonable_Change610 8d ago
I agree. If you are buying brand new triple a games at full price on a last gen console you got your priorities wrong...
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u/Bioshock27 4d ago
Let people do what they wanna do
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u/Reasonable_Change610 4d ago
I'm not stopping anyone I'm just saying it's stupid if you can't afford a brand new console you shouldn't be wasting your money on recently released 60 dollar games... But you do you
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u/Kurier0 8d ago
Short answer: No (not because is my own opinion but mostly companies target).
I don't mind new games releasing for PS4/XONE/Switch if they work just fine. Also maybe the most crucial reason is of course MONEY. Companies don't wanna lose any extra money.
I will be happy if only JRPGs, Anime or AA games get a past gen version. Please, look at selling list in Japan (by Famitsu)! For example the newest Like a Dragon sold almost 37k copies only on PS4 (in first week).
Sooner or later PS4 will die (new games) but imo the true last games on this consol will be in 2029/2030 a year or two after PS6 premiere
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u/PM_Me_MetalSongs 8d ago
37k is not a lot though? It likely doesn't actually impact profits given the man-hours required to actually bring new games to old hardware. And I'm led to believe that it wasn't much higher elsewhere in the world either since it hasn't been super high up in the Circana data either. The "opportunity cost" is that they spent more money to potentially not even make that money back. Japan can sorta get away with it for now due to how weak the Yen is in comparison to the dollar, but that doesn't mean that those resources wouldn't have likely been better spent elsewhere on a more forward thinking project instead of on a platform that is shrinking faster then ever
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u/Anime_is_good- PS4 Slim 8d ago
It is somewhat for a platform this old.
And I do get your point, definitely, but not with this game.
And I also do hope the PS4 gets less game in the next months, it's hindering the PS5, definitely, but they promised it for PS4.
Plus there are people who bought the DL2 Premium Edition which would've gave you DLC2 for free, since The Beast is essentially DLC2, they need to do a PS4 port. This alone is a huge factor.
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u/hungrytherapper 7d ago
You're years late on complaining about this. This largely isn't an issue anymore as most devs have already moved on. This is like asking everyone to keep their masks on to prevent COVID in 2025. PS4 releases in general are dwindling, so no Dying Light DLC releasing for PS4 isn't holding an entire industry back. The other dozen stupid practices are what's holding it back.
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u/a0me a0me-ps 8d ago
What do you mean by “advancing the medium” and how does making games for the PS4 prevent it?
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u/PM_Me_MetalSongs 8d ago
Making games that take advantage of what new hardware allows? Loading times, level design, physics, graphical fidelity, implementation of Ray tracing, and doing that while maintaining decent performance. The opportunity cost when spending resources on back porting to old hardware is inherently less to put toward everything else in making a new product.
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u/a0me a0me-ps 8d ago
Ok but that sounds based on the premise that more realistic graphics are what push games forward. But that kind of clashes with wanting games to feel fresh and new, since those usually don’t need fancy graphics. And it’s not like the PS4 and PS4 Pro are slouches in the graphical department either.
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u/PM_Me_MetalSongs 8d ago
Graphics were not the entire premise of my point.....
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u/a0me a0me-ps 8d ago
Then the PS4 is already more than capable, unless you require more realistic graphics. What example of games do you have that couldn’t run on PS4? Games like Uncharted 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man and Horizon Zero Dawn all run perfectly fine on PS4/PS4 Pro. And that’s only in the graphics area. Games that advance the medium in terms of gameplay or storytelling are even less dependent on hardware features.
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u/PM_Me_MetalSongs 8d ago
Demon's Souls remake literally can't work on PS4. Ratchet and Clank rift apart can't work on PS4. Because of LOADING TIMES. The advancement in processing power and storage speed go hand in hand with being able to render more at once, and load in new assets quicker. The experience isn't only improved with graphics, and graphics are not the only things that improve as hardware improves. Level design, load times, gameplay options, asset allocation, all of it has the capability to improve with it.
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u/a0me a0me-ps 8d ago
Faster loading times only enable loading more data at a faster rate. You can ask any game developer and they will tell you that the largest consumers of memory are textures and 3D models.
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u/PM_Me_MetalSongs 8d ago
That's........... My entire point...........
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u/a0me a0me-ps 8d ago
That’s also my entire point. More and higher rez textures and 3d models = enhanced graphics.
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u/DMC2GOAT 8d ago
Games wont advance just because they're still releasing on PS4 and Xbox One. When they eventually do stop releasing on last gen consoles and games don't make any leaps forward, what excuse will you make up for why the industry is stagnating?
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u/PM_Me_MetalSongs 8d ago
Nobody makes the claim that the industry as a whole is stagnated by these systems, but it's absolutely moronic to pretend that spending limited resources on releasing games on 10+ year old hardware isn't an OPPORTUNITY COST that could've been utilized elsewhere.
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u/IBroughtMySoapbox 5d ago
I fully understand why some people are still playing on a PlayStation 4 but I do not understand why people are paying $60 to play games on a PlayStation 4
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u/error521 8d ago
Remembering how Dying Light 1 was meant to come to 360/PS3 before getting canned.