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Format PS5 ETA 2020 Pub Deep Silver Dev Deep Silver Fishlabs

Growth is not always smooth. Take the jump from PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3: you’ve no doubt heard plenty of developers speak about how challenging it was to get to grips with the unique architecture of the latter console. Happily, early indications suggest history isn’t repeating itself with PlayStation 5.

“We do have the game running on the next-gen consoles already,” Marek Berka, creative director at Deep Silver Fishlabs, tells us, “and one great feature was that we felt pretty much right at home on the new consoles. This enabled us to experiment and explore the new platform. What we’re seeing is a massive potential.”

“Many limitations and restrictions are gone,” he later adds. “[Before the PS5] there [were] strict […] limits, which [couldn’t] be bypassed, just

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