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DayZ could launch on consoles this year

Rocket hints that new-gen launch might be closer than initially thought.

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Those of you who thought the console version of DayZ would be a long way off, think again, as creator Dean "Rocket" Hall has said in a recent interview (and via MCV) that it's something they think might happen as early as the end of 2014.

When we spoke to Hall earlier in the year, he told us that they wouldn't look at the console version until the game was in a more complete state, something that they recently admitted isn't expected to happen much before the end of this year.

"We need to get the PC build to the right state, where then it can pull across, and I think everybody recognises that there's no sense in starting to pull something across that's dramatically changing all the time. So really our focus is on delivering the right stuff and answering all the questions as we go through the Early Access with the PC," he told us back in April.

With that in mind, we'd still be hugely surprised if DayZ ended up on either Xbox One or PS4 before 2015.

After mentioning a 2014 release was a possibility, Hall then added: "We've toyed around what to do with the console side of things. We have to get the core aspects of the game finished before we commit to doing anything. Otherwise you make a big announcement and then you wait for six or 12 months."

Hall then said: "There will always be people who won't be happy with it, who say it needs dinosaurs or whatever. But I think it will be at the point where it's like, okay, we need to polish this."

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REVIEW. Written by Mike Holmes

"While fun is there to be had and DayZ is still able to offer up uniquely intense flashes of quality, it's not enough to make this an essential survival experience in 2019."



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