You guys — Dying Light: The Beast just dropped some news about PS4/Xbox One ports, and it's honestly a rollercoaster! So here's the deal: Techland originally had two versions of the game planned (one for current-gen plus PC, another scaled down for older consoles), but they recently pulled the old-gen version. They cite "the technical realities of development," which is basically code for — you cannot port a modern Unreal Engine 5 title back to 2013 hardware without making it unplayable.
There's even more context: Dying Light 2 was already heavily stripped on Switch, and the dev team admitted that trying to push The Beast down to PS4 would mean cutting so much out of the game that what remained wouldn't represent the vision at all. Instead they want everyone playing a version where the world is intact — new city outside Harran, dense crowds, dynamic weather, and everything else. That means PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC get it on September 19, 2025.
I'm torn because I genuinely feel for old-gen owners who were counting on this, but as someone who has tried to run modern games on older hardware before... yeah, a stripped-down port is rarely the experience anyone actually wants. They want one high-quality product rather than two split versions (which was the original plan after deciding against making both Dying Light 3 and The Beast). So I'm going with: frustrating news for old consoles, but better to have no broken version than a half-broken one.
Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/dying-light-the-beast-for-ps4-and-xbox-one-canceled-after-dev-accepts-the-technical-realities-of-development
There's even more context: Dying Light 2 was already heavily stripped on Switch, and the dev team admitted that trying to push The Beast down to PS4 would mean cutting so much out of the game that what remained wouldn't represent the vision at all. Instead they want everyone playing a version where the world is intact — new city outside Harran, dense crowds, dynamic weather, and everything else. That means PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC get it on September 19, 2025.
I'm torn because I genuinely feel for old-gen owners who were counting on this, but as someone who has tried to run modern games on older hardware before... yeah, a stripped-down port is rarely the experience anyone actually wants. They want one high-quality product rather than two split versions (which was the original plan after deciding against making both Dying Light 3 and The Beast). So I'm going with: frustrating news for old consoles, but better to have no broken version than a half-broken one.
Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/dying-light-the-beast-for-ps4-and-xbox-one-canceled-after-dev-accepts-the-technical-realities-of-development