Marvel Rivals continues to be one of the most popular new game releases in recent memory, surpassing over 600K concurrent players on Steam at the time of this writing.
Marvels Rivals PS4 guide
Needless to say, Marvel Rivals continues to be at the gamers’ center of attention, and some PS4 players are now wondering if they could try this latest hero-shooter on their system.
If you’re one of those people, you have come to the right place. Continue reading to learn whether you can play Marvel Rivals on PS4.
Can you play Marvel Rivals on PS4?
Unfortunately, Marvel Rivals is not available on PS4.
It’s a current-gen title that has been developed on Unreal Engine 5 and supports display features like Frame Generation and Global Illumination.
If anything, Marvel Rivals sometimes struggle on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, with many console players complaining about stuttering and crashing in Season 0.
Thankfully, it’s still much better optimized than other UE5 games on consoles like The First Descendant and maintains a steady 60 FPS almost all the time, even on Xbox Series S.
As such, if you’re looking to play Marvel Rivals on a console, your cheapest option would be to buy Xbox Series X for $299, which, on the flip side, is usually being sold at a discounted price.
Will Marvel Rivals come to PS4?
While NetEase has yet to comment on a potential Marvel Rivals PS4 launch, it will likely not happen because Unreal Engine 5 games are not easy to optimize on current-gen systems, let alone last-gen ones.
That said, a Marvel Rivals PS4 port wouldn’t be entirely impossible to pull off, given how a handful of UE5 games like The First Descendant and Fortnite, are available on that platform.
Eventually, it all might come down to the demand and the resources it would take to optimize a game of this caliber onto a last-gen system, which, in all fairness, NetEase would want to spend on adding new gameplay and quality-of-life features to Marvel Rivals on existing platforms.
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