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News Riot Apparently Gearing Up for Valorant Console Release March 30, 2022

By Zarmena Khan

It looks like Valorant PS5 and PS4 versions are in the works, if datamined information and new job descriptions are anything to go by. As spotted by VeryAli Gaming, Riot Games’ Bellevue studio is looking for a senior game designer for Valorant to work specifically on console, and strings found by one dataminer in the game’s files make reference to PSN and Xbox Live.

When is Valorant PS5, PS4 release expected?

According to Valorant leakers Shiina and Valorleaks, the aforementioned strings were just added to Valorant’s files for “backend purposes,” suggesting that Riot’s still in the testing phase. Additionally, the vacancy for senior game designer has been recently advertised.

Console release for VALORANT might be closer than actually expected. These strings were added to the files today:

– “Connection to “PSN” has been lost.” – “Connection to Xbox LIVE has been lost.”

— Shiina – Valorant News & Leaks (@ShiinaVLR) February 15, 2022

In June 2020, Riot revealed that it was “prototyping” a console version of Valorant but didn’t make any promises because the studio believes that “there’s a way to experience this game that we’re not entirely sure translates completely to console play.” That it’s now hiring a senior game designer to specifically work on Valorant for consoles suggests that things have been progressing well, perhaps due to Sony and Microsoft releasing PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The question now is whether Valorant will release on the PS4 and Xbox One as well or not.

Opinion: Valorant on PS5 would be most welcome

Zarmena writes… Now that Blizzard Entertainment is a part of Microsoft (pending regulatory approval), it’s unclear what the future holds for the Overwatch franchise on PlayStation platforms. Valorant would be an excellent alternative and one that’s free-to-play. It looks like it’ll be a while before we’ll see Valorant on consoles, but something tells me it’ll be out sooner than Overwatch 2, which seems to have been stuck in development hell for quite a while.

In other news, Sony says putting first-party games on PS Plus day one would hurt quality, and PS Store’s Spring sale kicks off today.

[Source: VeryAli Gaming]

Zarmena Khan

Zarmena is a senior editor at PSLS. She has been with the site since 2014.

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