A number of new job postings for Riot Video games counsel {that a} Valorant PS5 recreation launch is likely to be in improvement. Each listings level to design roles asking for experience growing on a number of platforms together with consoles.
Surprisingly, this isn’t the primary time that we’ve heard of the favored eSports shooter probably coming to PS5 and PS4, as a leak again in March 2022 revealed a number of strings that have been added to the sport’s information that talked about a web-based connection to PSN. Riot Video games additionally revealed in June 2020 that it was engaged on a console prototype for the sport too.
Valorant is likely to be coming to cell platforms
Particularly, the 2 job listings for Riot Video games in Bellevue, Washington are for a “Senior Sport Designer, Console” and “Sport Design Supervisor, Console.” The function titles give all of it up, actually.
However digging just a little deeper, the Senior Sport Designer place requires the applicant to have expertise transport or engaged on “no less than one console-based AAA+ on-line aggressive recreation.” The Sport Design Supervisor function goes additional, particularly asking the developer to “assist set a imaginative and prescient and information designers on bringing Valorant to new platforms.” That is along with having “a strong understanding of a console FPS market and participant motivations and behaviors.”
Curiously, each roles want candidates who’ve expertise growing on PC, cell, and console platforms, suggesting that Riot Video games has a notion to carry Valorant to iOS and Android platforms too. The console precedence of the listings, although, counsel {that a} Valorant PS5 launch will arrive first earlier than a cell model does.