Roblox will finally be available on PlayStation soon. At its 2023 Roblox Developer Conference (RDC) on Friday, roblox announced that its popular gaming and social app is coming to PS4 and PS5 in October. And during Sony’s State of Play on September 14, the company announced that the game would launch on October 10.
Roblox, which is free to download, is now available on multiple platforms including PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and Xbox, but the lack of support for Sony consoles has felt like a notable hole in the Roblox lineup. However, there have been some hints that a PlayStation version is in the works: a 2022 job listing indicated that Roblox was hiring a PlayStation engineer, and CEO David Baszucki hinted in an August earnings call that the company has been considering bringing the PlayStation version. application for PlayStation and Nintendo Switch.
Roblox promises that PlayStation players will be able to access the “full catalog of Roblox experiences,” so it looks like you’ll be able to log into your account and directly access your favorite experiences once the app is available on PS4 and PS5. .
I asked the company about a possible Switch release. “We want Roblox to be on all devices, anywhere in the world. At this time, we currently have no imminent plans to have Roblox available on Nintendo Switch,” spokesperson Roman Skuratovskiy said in a statement to The edge. However, in the DRC scenario, Baszucki strongly He teased that Roblox will be expanding to more places: “stay tuned, because there are more platforms to come.”
The company also shared that Meta Quest Roblox The app will be “widely available” at the end of September. Roblox launched an open beta of the Quest app in July and garnered more than one million installs within the first five days of that launch. Updates are also coming for the Xbox app, including an improved user experience and the promise of frequent updates.
Update September 14 at 5:13 pm ET: Official release date added.
