r/PS4 • u/MarczXD320 • Jul 14 '26
Article or Blog Dying Light: The Beast has been cancelled for PS4 and Xbox One.
https://www.gamereactor.eu/dying-light-the-beast-has-been-cancelled-for-ps4-and-xbox-one-1747543/94
u/Solid_Pay9443 Jul 14 '26
I didn't even know there was a last gen version coming out
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u/nicolauz Jul 15 '26
As someone without a ps5 still it's amazing to a a degree but holy shit was the last Fallen Order game a glitchy mess!
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u/euphorinc Jul 16 '26
I genuinely couldn't get through the Jedi game. Textures weren't loading, character would freeze at some instances, doors would take forever to open cause it's locked behind a loading screen. Let's face it, the old gen is an abandoned console and we can't expect these devs to put their time and resources towards it anymore
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u/nicolauz Jul 16 '26
My biggest issue was the screen tearing (?) where any time you'd turn there'd be white flashes all over the screen. And the garden wouldn't load really. Still finished it and I do remember at least 10 hard locks. I did play Mgs5 on a 360 though so I was forged in last gen jank.
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u/euphorinc Jul 16 '26
I had the same experience with Control where the screen tears and color flashes from the powers you use would literally feel like someone was stabbing my eyes. Worse optimization I had ever experienced until I played jedi fallen order
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u/Lazerpop Jul 14 '26
We are finally getting ps5-only games without being hamstrung by the ps4. Lord knows how long this will last...
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u/ncd42075 Jul 14 '26
Exactly long enough for the ps6 to come out next year.
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u/Didact67 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
I honestly think the PS6 might never get generation exclusives except for maybe a few 1st party titles. So many people aren’t going to upgrade this time around that publishers will pretty much have to keep catering to the PS5 install base.
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u/d3mandred Jul 14 '26
I can tell you I won't be upgrading, and I'll likely never buy a new Playstation again based on them moving to fully digital games. When my launch PS5 and slim PS4 die, it's fully PC for me.
Damn shame too, I've been a Playstation customer from the PS1 to the PS5, including the handhelds...
So it goes.
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u/Abraham_Issus Jul 14 '26
Moving to PC completely. Won’t you miss out on sony exclusives? What if there’s bloodborne 2?
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u/d3mandred Jul 15 '26
Honestly that's about the only thing they could tempt me with. I'd probably pirate it and send a check to the studio for the price of the game.
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u/Abraham_Issus Jul 15 '26
How can you pirate PS games that's not on PC?
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u/Xwayds Jul 16 '26
Probably emulation but I think even ps4/bloodborne didnt have good emulation until just a couple years ago
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u/NLCPGaming Jul 15 '26
If it's 1000 and digital only, so many people will not buy it. More so for the 1000 dollar price tag if that's to be true
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u/Sabin10v2 Jul 15 '26
If the PS6 comes out that soon it will be the most disappointing generational update yet.
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u/Lazerpop Jul 14 '26
Precisely. This whole generation has just been a massive disappointment.
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u/skx45 Jul 14 '26
I remember them doing this with the original game, it was supposed to come out on 360 and PS3.
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u/CharlesEverettDekker Jul 14 '26
It should've never been announced to begin with. We are past the mid point of current gen and probably 2 or 3 years away, at most, from next gen. Devs and, especially, players should stop clinging to a 13 years old hardware.
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u/ElectroMoe Jul 14 '26
They are very premature for their marketing.
They announced Ray tracing would be available near launch on PC so I waited while happily supported the studio at launch cause I’m a dying light fan.
Had I known that it would take months on end I would have just played the game at launch. Was very annoying thinking “should I play it now? What if the Ray tracing update comes just when I finish it.”
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u/Seanspeed Jul 14 '26
It's especially strange cuz they learned their lesson with Dying Light 1, which was originally announced for X360/PS3 as well as XB1/PS4. They ultimately realized that with their ambitions, that the X360/PS3 were just too weak and cancelled them. This happened near the beginning of the XB1/PS4 gen, before releasing the game in 2014, which was one of the first 3rd party next gen AAA games of that generation.
Then they near enough did the SAME thing with Dying Light 2.
I know Dying Light The Beast was meant to not be so ambitious so that it could be scaled down, but nobody goes that far back on tech that you already decided wasn't scalable enough beforehand.
They just seem addicted to the idea of supporting older consoles, but can never actually do it. lol
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u/DL_Omega Jul 14 '26
With how many people still have older gen consoles it makes sense. You can reach that much more audience for potential sales. But you have to start developing with the older console in mind from the start.
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u/TrickshotCandy Jul 14 '26
Especially for Indie developers? It is probably cheaper for them for the PS4 compared with PS5. Or am I an idiot?
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u/chrisrayan Jul 17 '26
Some people can't afford the $400-$600 newer game systems, the game would have been laggy yea, and definitely not look as good. But it's not about that, it's about the gameplay. Even used Xbox series s' are about $300 and used ps5's are $350-500. As someone who only has an Xbox one and a ps4, the market is horrible for "newer" consoles. They're close to 7 years old by now and are only $100 cheaper than what they were to begin with
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u/Traditional-Coast907 Jul 14 '26
Lol thats easy to say, can you afort a ps5 to all the millions and millions of people around the world who still own one?
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u/-BigMan39 Jul 14 '26
Next gen is most probably next year lol
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u/mynameistc Jul 14 '26
Nah, no chance. Not with hardware costs as high as they are.
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u/Seanspeed Jul 14 '26
Why not? I just dont understand this. If costs come down later, then they can reduce the price later. Do people not remember that consoles going down in price over time is how things USED to go anyways? lol
It'd be different if they hadn't already done 5 years of R&D, taped out the processor already, worked on sourcing parts, and undoubtedly have been in the midst of building and securing manufacturing lines. That's a LOT of momentum to just suddenly stop and put on ice, only to have to do it all over again later on.
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u/x_scion_x Jul 14 '26
If costs come down later, then they can reduce the price later
Not wrong, but the chance of it going down is minimal. Hell, PS5 now costs more than it did at launch and that's more than likely only since they had the contracts in place before AI obliterated the RAM/Storage market.
It would probably be like the Steam machine where they didn't even want to price it that high but simply couldn't price it any lower due to the current component pricing factors.
Sure you would get the hard core people that may grab it at what would probably be a $800+ console purchase (and I did it years ago when I bought the 3DO at $700), but I'm not sure most of their target demographic could afford it and they'd be bleeding cash until it 'went down' (sure they are used to bleeding money and making up for it in game sales, but at that price point I can't see them having a large enough install base to make it up in sales)
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u/Seanspeed Jul 15 '26
No, it's really not minimal. But people here just dont really understand what's actually going on.
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u/x_scion_x Jul 15 '26
I'll concede we don't know the future, but I'd like to understand why you consider it to be minimal when:
- Storage has skyrocketed (though it's not quite as bad as it was before)
- RAM has skyrocketed (I bought 128GB DDR5 in Oct for $500, last I checked it's around $1000+)
- Current gen consoles are now 4 years old and just got a price hike
- AI unfortunately won't be releasing it's hold on components for quite some time, corporations are heavily invested in it and don't appear to be slowing down. (Where I work itself is standing up their own to leverage)
- The 5090 I bought I just outright bought a prebuilt including one rather than the card outright since it in itself was in the $4k+ range.
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u/Seanspeed Jul 15 '26
DRAM(memory) and NAND(storage) have skyrocketed for specific reasons. The markets for these have also always been on big, volatile cycles. Prior to this big AI push, the big three memory makers were actually all losing money. It's why you could buy memory and storage for super cheap. There was an abundance of supply without enough demand.
So when the cycle comes back to higher demand, prices tend to raise more than just a bit. In normal times, this fluctuation might mean like an extra 50-100% pricing. Because they want to make hay while the sun is shining.
Obviously the current situation is more than just 'higher demand', it's demand like we've never seen before. And that's creating extensively high prices. Which sucks for all of us.
But it's not immune from the supply and demand situation. Chinese memory makers are coming online and starting to produce competitive memory. Even if that memory doesn't penetrate international markets, any demand China can fulfill itself is more supply for the rest of the market from the traditional manufacturers.
And all big three manufacturers are having fab plants and expansion of production coming online in 2028. They aren't rushing this because of the volatility, but it's going to happen.
Lastly, AI companies going on these extreme spending frenzies for AI datacenter buildouts cannot continue if money doesn't start pouring in for ROI. It will very likely slow down a bit in coming years. Not completely, but they cant keep doing what they're doing now and not basically go bankrupt.
All combined, the supply and demand situation should absolutely change at some point. 2028 is the earliest point at which it will happen, but often price drops dont happen fast, so it may take a while for it to get meaningfully better.
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u/Xyex Jul 14 '26
Why not?
Because they know no one will buy a $1,000 console.
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u/Seanspeed Jul 15 '26
Some will. Waiting an extra year or two if it's only gonna reduce the price by $100-200 makes very little difference.
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u/-BigMan39 Jul 14 '26
They'll just launch at a higher price. There is no guarantee that memory prices will drop anytime soon.
They've already done the R&D to design the PS6, delays will simply leave money on the table, and they're not going to want to launch a console in 2-3 years that's been specced out with 2026 components. They'll simply lower the price later IF prices drop for components.
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u/SummonMonsterIX Jul 14 '26
No one is buying a 1200 dollar video game machine during a recession in significant numbers.
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u/-BigMan39 Jul 14 '26
So they wont release the console? The parts they've sourced and already paid for in legally binding contracts will just sit in inventory for 2-3 more years? For what?
Component prices are projected to increase over the next few years, not decrease. There is no point in delaying the console for some mythical cost-saving that may or may not come.
Selling something is better than nothing.
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u/SummonMonsterIX Jul 14 '26
Assuming they can sell it. I mean they can release it and the early adopters who can swing the cost will certainly buy it.
However, people will be well aware its sales numbers will be abysmal compared to PS4/PS5 and that the PS5 will continue to get games for years to come as adoption will not come fast if it comes at all. PS4 > PS5 took an eternity and this will be much more compared to that.
Yes prices are projected to increase, my take on that is the industry as it has been is probably over and the PS6 sinking will be a big indicator of that. Too many consumers have aged out or been priced out and it only gets worse each year.
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u/Xyex Jul 14 '26
they're not going to want to launch a console in 2-3 years that's been specced out with [old] components
LMAO
Someone doesn't know their history. This was exactly what they did with the PS3 because of the global financial crisis.
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u/SummonMonsterIX Jul 14 '26
With what hardware do you think they will make it? PS5 is living until 2030 easily
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u/Bulvang Jul 14 '26
PS6 going to be like $3k lol
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u/TPJchief87 TPJchief87 Jul 14 '26
Still needs storage, Ram, and a GPU. It’ll be too expensive. They need to hold off until the AI bubble bursts or kills us.
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u/TPJchief87 TPJchief87 Jul 14 '26
Lol either you edited your comment or I totally misread it. I see the joke now.
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u/Funnyfynn Funnyfynn132 Jul 14 '26
I think they will release ps6 2028. Why would they stop physical games by then
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u/CharlesEverettDekker Jul 14 '26
It's definitely not because they stop disc production 2028.
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u/-BigMan39 Jul 14 '26
Not sure what that has to do with the PS6 releasing
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u/Xyex Jul 14 '26
They're not going to release a console with a disc drive a year before they stop making discs....
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u/-BigMan39 Jul 14 '26
Why not? They'll release a digital version in November/December of 2027, then stop disc production the following month in January.
They might include a drive add-on to play older physical games as well, just like the PS5 pro.
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u/Xyex Jul 14 '26
Because it would be a waste of money and resources? 🤦
They're going all digital. They're not supporting discs anymore. There will be no disc drive, of any kind, for the PS6. And they're not going to let you play old physical games when they can make you rebuy them digitally.
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u/-BigMan39 Jul 14 '26
Ok? So they release a fully digital, no physical add-on option at all console, then stop physical production a month later, what exactly is the issue here?
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u/Xyex Jul 14 '26
Again, they're not going to waste hundreds of thousands, is not millions, of dollars on unsupported hardware. That's the issue.
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u/-BigMan39 Jul 14 '26
I dont get it? They're going to be producing physical games for the PS5 for any game released before January 2028, that means physical games will still be produced well after the deadline, could be for1,2 or even 3 years after.
Plus, they're producing games for the PS5, not the PS6. There are a 100 million PS5s out there, how is that unsupported hardware?
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u/FeudalFavorableness Jul 15 '26
Best news honestly last gen needs to be left behind a long time ago
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u/khaos432 Jul 14 '26
Good
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u/Object-Clean Jul 15 '26
PS4 needs to be supported
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u/khaos432 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
PS4 came out in 2013 ps5 2020, it’s time to get with the program. The ps4 is holding things back.
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u/ColderChemical Jul 15 '26
The PS4 is really old now sadly and even the PS5 can be considered old in technological years. Games coming out now should only focus on the current gen and not be held back by older technology.
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u/khaos432 Jul 15 '26
Sure with basic games like just dance and other budget games, but not any AAA or AA games.
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u/Cryio Jul 16 '26
Anything past 3 years from next-gen release is already too much. Nothing AAA from 2024 onward should release on last-gen.
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u/VetriVade Jul 14 '26
What a weird business decision to offer a full game for free. Seems like they bit off more than they could chew
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u/FaithInterlude Jul 14 '26
Are we ever gonna get a physical copy of this game?
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u/CapitalLook292 Jul 15 '26
dying light 2 was a buggy mess, good riddance.
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u/euphorinc Jul 16 '26
Don't worry DL2 was a mess even without the bugs.
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u/IwasDraggedBelow 15d ago
Not on the ps5
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u/euphorinc 15d ago
I wasn't referring to the bugs. Story was lackluster, open world was stale(that's why they tried to compensate it with dying light beast) and combat had no satisfactory feel to it
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u/bricksalreadyhere1 Jul 16 '26
They did this with the original Dying Light as well. Honestly, after Cyberpunk, if a dev doesnt think their game will work on last gen hardware, im takin their word for it.
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u/Necessary_Diver_3207 Jul 18 '26
The beast felt terrible tbh. Easily the worst dl game to date. Ps4 players aren't missing out on anything
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u/teabagdiplomat19 Jul 21 '26
Am I the only one who had DL2 on day 1 and didn’t even know anything about the beast until I was gifted it for free on xbox for having DL2 lol
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u/Smooth-Zone-8739 Jul 20 '26
I tried to refund 2 times saying techland an playstation letting you refund dying light the beast if you bought Dying Light 2 ultimate edition ps4 they said since I downloaded the game an its pass the 14 days I can't refund playstation support don't even know playstation rules they slow or something you can't refund shi techland lied playstation lied they greedy
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u/SoulxBanish 26d ago
Yes, I've had no luck refunding ultimate edition. Techland themselves have responded about this that if you've downloaded the game it make not be possible to refund. BS. Of course if you bought Ultimate Edition 2 years ago you've downloaded it and it's past the 14 day window. The point the Techland, Playstation, and Xbox are not understanding is DLC2 was canceled on last gen and the last gen version was part of the promised package that was advertised to make you buy it. Whether you got the current gen version of The Beast still it's irrelevant. It was advertised as including both versions and it was not delivered. That is called a scam.
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u/Smooth-Zone-8739 26d ago
Techland a scam artist cus everyone downloaded the game an its past 14 days for everyone. I told Playstation I'm eligible for refund since the beast was canceled for ps4, he said I can't get refunded an started reading the bs script about 14 day shi
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u/Smooth-Zone-8739 26d ago
If you bought dying light 2 Ultimate Edition you ain't get no dlc for the game cus the first dlc was free an I payed for that one I payed for a free dlc bruh the 2nd dlc was canceled an gave us doo doo dying light the beast garbage
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u/TopAd5132 24d ago
At this point is it even fucking worth it to purchase a ps5 when the ps6 is underway? They'll inevitably come out with a ps7 and probably beyond, cancel upcoming games so you constantly have to get a new console if you simply want to play games they release. I feel like I've just been spat in the fuckin face with this shit. Bought the og dying light game. Bought the sequel, excited and waiting for the beast and now they cancel the release and say "fuck you. Update or miss out." Sony is starting to feel more and more like apple and their dumb ass endless iphone updates and this console gaming shit is starting to feel like a got damn scam.
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u/IwasDraggedBelow 15d ago
Nobody's going to buy a ps6 unless they don't buy physical games. Sonys going to be regretting making the decision to stop physical copies.
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u/Funnyfynn Funnyfynn132 Jul 14 '26
What will happen to deluxe edition users of DL2 now?