Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to PS4 and Xbox One after all

EA lauds Star Wars game as a commercial success
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to PS4 and Xbox One after all
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to PS4 and Xbox One after all /

Respawn Entertainment’s latest single-player title Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was the big star of EA’s most recent earnings call.

During the briefing, EA called the game a “commercial success” and a driving factor for strong quarterly earnings. “EA delivered a record Q1, driven by strong momentum in EA SPORTS global football and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor,” stated Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA. It has been noted that players are spending a lot more time with Survivor than predecessor Fallen Order, which makes sense given the greater scale of the sequel and seems to be a pleasant development in the publisher’s eyes.

It’s been announced that PS4 and Xbox One versions of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor are now in development, though a release date has not been communicated.

Happy news for owners of last-gen consoles: Survivor will be coming your way :: Respawn Entertainment / EA

This development is quite surprising in many ways: Ahead of launch, the studio clearly stated that the title had been made with the superior technical capabilities of the current-gen consoles PS5 and Xbox Series X|S in mind. It’s also still performing less than stellar on PC, where the game’s launch has been a technical disaster, despite several updates attempting to remedy the situation. It’s going to be interesting how the developers will manage to port the title to less powerful platforms given these conditions.

Respawn already had its hands full in any case: Job postings suggest that a third Star Wars Jedi game is in development and the studio has previously been announced to be making a Star Wars first-person shooter under the leadership of Battlefront veteran Peter Hirschmann.

Respawn furthermore helps with the production of a Star Wars strategy game primarily developed by Bit Reactor, a studio formed by former Firaxis employees.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg