Unlike its predecessor, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will not release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This is due to hardware limitations that wouldn’t have made things like larger maps and broader enemy variety possible, according to the game’s director.
Speaking with PLAY Magazine in the March 2023 issue, as spotted by MP1st, game director Stig Asmussen talked about how working on the next-gen update for Jedi: Fallen Order was a good proving ground for the team. It’s also mentioned how ray tracing was considered for the update but was eventually scrapped.
[That version] was a good proving ground while wewere considering how to enhance Survivor. We actually consideredray tracing for the new-gen Fallen Order because we were already building it into Survivor, but we ultimately scrapped it because the environment art authoring between the generations was pretty different.But the process did help us define how we wanted to approach ray tracing on our modified version of the Unreal 4 engine.
Continuing, the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor game director revealed that the better hardware of current-generation consoles could be taken advantage of to create much larger maps with better density and detail, broader enemy variety, and more, elements that aligned perfectly with the studio’s plans to expand the original game while not breaking what they achieved in the original Fallen Order.
Bottom line, we learned quickly that we could take advantage of the faster processors, larger/faster memory, better loading times, etc, to create much larger maps, with more detail, greater density, broader enemy/NPC variety, and overall fidelity. These features aligned perfectly with how we wanted to push the game. We didn’t want to break what we did in the first game because it was well received, but we wanted to evolve/enhance the experience. This new generation allowed us to do exactly that, and I believe it translates to a true new-gen experience in the Star Wars universe.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor releases on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S on April 28th, 2023, worldwide. You can learn more about the upcoming game by checking out some recent gameplay footage.
