Early Access Version of Ark: Survival Evolved is Not Coming to PlayStation 4 Because Sony Won't Allow it, Dev Says

While programmer Studio Wildcard is working to put together and burnish ARK: Survival Evolved for a proper release later on this yr, PC and Xbox One players are spending hours enjoying all the fun that the action-adventure survival game has to offering via early access. PlayStation 4 owners, however, aren't getting whatsoever of the dinosaur action, and that is considering Sony is not assuasive an early access release of the game. The platform holder, according to the developer, doesn't want the game on PlayStation iv until the final retail version is fix.

Sony Doesn't Want Ark: Survival Evolved on PlayStation 4 Until the Development Work on the Game is Consummate

ARK: Survival of the Fittest, a standalone PVP-focused offshoot of Ark: Survival Evolved was released about a twelvemonth agone. Studio Wildcard had plans to release the spin-off on PlayStation 4 at the end of July, just that changed recently when the developer decided to fold the competitive multiplayer game back into the main game. Expectations were that at present the studio won't take long to release its popular dinosaur survival game on PlayStation 4, but as it turns out, that is not happening. Sony only wants the game on its platform once the development piece of work is finished. Speaking on the game'southward official forums, the studio said:

"As for the PS4 Release of Ark: Survival Evolved, information technology is currently upwardly to Sony. We've been informed that we can't release the game on this platform until information technology has been finished. Nosotros would like zippo more than to make Ark available on PS4 as soon equally possible, every bit we already have an awesome PS4 version of the game running internally. If you would like to see it sooner, delight let Sony know, as it's unfortunately non our decision."

Sony has so far not given a reason behind the decision to cake the early access version of Ark: Survival Evolved from releasing on PlayStation 4. It could exist due to the fact that the PlayStation 4 doesn't have a program like PC and Xbox Ane that allows player to try out games while they are still in development. The console, yet, has still received a few games early. 1 such game is 7 Days to Die, which is however listed as a Early Access title on Steam, but is bachelor on PlayStation 4.

Ark: Survival Evolved is expected to release in full later this year. The game started off every bit a PC-exclusive title, released through Steam Early on Access last year in June. Studio Wildcard later released the survival risk on Xbox I through Microsoft's Xbox Game Preview program. Despite yet being in development, the game has sold v.five million copies in total; 4 million on PC and 1.5 million on Xbox One.