So we are ensuring that owners of that console have a great experience and that the game will look fantastic on that console."Īnyone who buys the game on PS4 will also be able to take advantage of a free PS5 upgrade for the game whenever they're ready to make the new-gen leap. Interestingly, de Jonge has also said that "a lot of the development has taken place on the PlayStation 4, and a lot of playtesting is also done on PlayStation 4. When you boot up the game, you're right there in the action." "In an open-world game like Horizon Forbidden West, if you open up the map and fast travel from one end to the other, or restart from a checkpoint, it will be super fast. "With the PS5's SSD, there will be virtually no loading screens," game director Mathijs de Jonge said in a recent dev diary, echoing sentiments from system architect Mark Cerny as well as several other PS5 developers.
We don’t have plans for day and date, and we remain 100% committed to dedicated hardware." "In my mind, Horizon Zero Dawn was just a great fit in this particular instance. "To maybe put a few minds at ease, releasing one first-party AAA title to PC doesn’t necessarily mean that every game now will come to PC," Herman Hulst, Head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, said at the time. Though it's worth noting that its predecessor, Horizon Zero Dawn, is now out on PC, but there are no guarantees Horizon Forbidden West will follow the same path.
At least for now, if you want to play Horizon Forbidden West when it's released, you'll need a PS5 - or a PS4.