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Park Beyond Developer Explains Why PS4 & Xbox One Were Skipped as Game Comes to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, & PC

With so many developers sticking to cross-gen developers, Twinfinite inquires on why Park Beyond is skipping the PS4 and Xbox One.

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Yesterday Bandai Namco and Limbic Entertainment announced the park simulator Park Beyond for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

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With many developers still sticking to old-generation consoles and releasing their games as cross-generation, Twinfinite asked the developers why they decided to skip PS4 and Xbox One.

Producer Marco Huppertz explained that the game is going to be quite complex and the developers did not want to make compromises.

This was a decision that we made at some point throughout the production because we knew that in Park Beyond there are going to be a lot of systems and a lot going on. With thousands of visitors visiting your park and eventually the simulation becoming bigger and bigger, we just did not want to make any sacrifice in terms of development, because the new-gen consoles definitely do allow more technical capabilities for us.

Therefore, staying on older-gen consoles would have been a limiting factor for a lot of topics. Since we had the premise of delivering the same experience for both PC players and console players, the decision was made on our side that we’re only going to support new-gen consoles.

Asked whether that means that we should give up on the idea of a Switch port, Huppertz mentioned that it isn’t planned for the release, but “let’s see what happens at later stages.”

You can expect to read the full interview here on Twinfinite soon.

Park Beyond is coming in 2022 for #PS5, #Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

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Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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