PS4 Meeting - DayZ Reference

[jowell24]

While re-watching parts of the Playstation conference I noticed that when a typical PS4 online user profile was shown, the word "DayZ" caught my eye in the profile information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbvQydPhCh8

If you start watching around 25:55 you can see that under the name "Henry Bayle" there is DayZ written (more specifically DayZ100). Just a minor thing that caught my attention.

Potential video easter-egg from Bohemia and Sony maybe?

I remember that Dean Hall (DayZ mod creator) recently talked about the possibility of getting DayZ on to next-gen consoles and was wondering if this has anything to do with that. I have no idea whether that could just be the online username or something else but I'm just speculating here

What are other people's thoughts? Would you like to see a next-gen console release for DayZ?

 

[Zenka]

Given how tight and user friendly the standalone version is sounding, a console release seems pretty likely. I know many of my friends who want to play Dayz, but avoid doing so because they find it too hard and janky to set up on PC. I really could see a lot of people jumping on board for a console release.

 

[Altefforr]

My friend told me about DayZ a while ago, I was very interested; but having to buy a separate game; and mod it was a big let down. I couldn't even get a trail or demo of the regular game in order to install the mod to play. Shame.

A standalone version would be very nice, and I'm sure lots of people on console would be happy too. But I only see the advent of making a console version, as well as a standalone PC version; being if the two servers were conjoined. Something like EVE and DUST 514. With DayZ being a mega-server, I really think this would be important.

 

[Griffolion]

Given how tight and user friendly the standalone version is sounding, a console release seems pretty likely. I know many of my friends who want to play Dayz, but avoid doing so because they find it too hard and janky to set up on PC. I really could see a lot of people jumping on board for a console release.

Not to mention that the PS4 is x86 like PC's are, the porting would be made significantly easier. I'd love to see DayZ get out there.

 

[jowell24]

Remembered that Bohemia Interactive were one of the listed third party developers for the PS4, indicating that if not DayZ then a new IP may be coming for the console which sounds great.

http://cdn-three.connecteddigitalworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ps4-developers-list.jpg?055b65

DayZ playtime has slowed down since I started playing the Wasteland mod which is just as fun but would love to see an ArmA type game released on the console at least, even though ArmA 3 is a PC-exclusive

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

would love to see an ArmA type game released on the console at least, even though ArmA 3 is a PC-exclusive

Yeah but from the current proposed specs ArmA 3 is going to be one of those bully programs that makes all but the most high end PCs cry. Bohemia would need to make a fair few alterations to the game to get it to work on a next-gen console (and the graphics are only a tiny part of that... the physics engine is hefty and so is the amount of AI crammed in).

The real question of whether they'd do it or not is whether they see dropping something that looks like a modern military shooter but isn't into a market that expects a modern militery shooter being a good idea. If gamers and critics/reviewers try to play an ArmA game as a typical modern military shooter most of them will hate it... it will be buggy, tempramental, punishingly hard, unfair and so on... It would be like giving Demon Souls to someone expecting a bioware game. Of course, if they approach it on the right angle it could become a cult game like it already is on PC.

Of course, that requires them to make a console version that is just as hard as the PC version.