Dying Light No Longer Releasing On Last Gen Systems
Coming from the official Dying Light Facebook page, they have announced that Dying Light will no longer be coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360. Instead it will exclusively release for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One, this is what they said “older consoles just couldn’t run the game and stay true to the core vision of Dying Light”.
While this may come as bad news to PS3 and Xbox 360 owners, developers Techland clearly feel that the last gen game wouldn’t not be up to scratch, so much so that they do not want to release it. If they did release it knowing it’s not good enough, they’d come under some heavy criticism and no doubt they still will for this move (though I agree with them). So it’s a very tough decision that the developers have had to make.
So as from now Dying Light will release for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One on January 27th in North America and the 30th across Europe.
Below is the letter in full from the Dying Light Facebook page:
As you probably know, we’re wrapping up the development of Dying Light, our biggest and most ambitious project to date. We spent the last three years making sure that all the features of our game add up to create a truly next-gen experience.
Much of this “next-gen feel” is tightly connected to the technological side of Dying Light. For instance, up to 200,000 objects can be displayed in the game at once. Add to this our use of realistic, physics-based lighting technology and you really start to push the next-gen systems to the limits. Features like these along with our core gameplay pillars – such as the player-empowering Natural Movement, threefold character development system, and vast open world – are all an inherent part of how Dying Light plays. However, combining all of these into one fluid experience is only possible on technologically advanced platforms.
Therefore, after thorough internal testing, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to leave past-gen systems behind and release Dying Light exclusively on the next-gen consoles and PC. Put simply, older consoles just couldn’t run the game and stay true to the core vision of Dying Light at the same time.
To ensure you enjoy Dying Light as much as we would like you to, we chose to release it without any compromises on the three strongest systems available. Thanks to this, you’ll get the full and best experience regardless of the platform you play on.
We hope you understand the hard choice we’ve had to make. With the launch just around the corner, we can’t wait to show you Dying Light in the state it was meant to be. We’re looking forward to your reactions and impressions as we release the game in January 2015.