
Wuthering Waves is looking like the next big thing. The upcoming gacha is getting an absolutely colossal push in Asia, with bus liveries, subway station takeovers, and enormous banners. In the west, the title recently rebranded Times Square, in a marketing event that must have cost developer Kuro an enormous chunk of change. The free-to-play title has attracted 30 million registrations prior to its release next week, on 22nd May.

But there’s one problem – it’s not coming to PS5 yet, where a huge chunk of the audience for rival developer HoYoverse’s titles reside. Speaking at GDC, the Hong Kong-based developer explained that a PlayStation port is definitely in the pipeline, it’s just going to take a little bit of time to be realised.
Speaking with The Loadout, overseas marketing specialist Lennon Li confirmed: “We do have a plan [to release] on console, but we’re still working on it.” Previously, the studio had said at Unreal Fest Shanghai that the PS5 version would utilise the same graphical settings as Ultra on PC, so it sounds like it’s at the very least deep into development on the port.
The challenge for Kuro is that gachas are best enjoyed day-and-date, as you’ll always find yourself playing catch-up on limited time banners if you start later than everyone else. It also looks like Zenless Zone Zero will release in July, which means Wuthering Waves will have its work cut out converting players already addicted to HoYoverse’s holy trinity. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait too long for the port.
[source theloadout.com]
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Not being able to play day 1 is a big issue for Gacha Games as you usually miss out on limited time rewards. (Still lowkey seething that I never got the free Silver Wolf lightcone in HSR. lol)
But to be honest I don’t have any more time for another gacha game, it would require dropping one or becoming very casual in it, which they actively push back against with daily, weekly, monthly rewards. This is a problem a lot of these games are going to have.
@themightyant Yep, I'm already worrying about how I'll fit in Zenless Zone Zero on top of what I'm already playing!
@get2sammyb I've already said i'm not playing that one! I didn't like the look of the Beta. (But then I said the same about HSR... and here we are. lol)
I'm on a push at the moment to get caught up with Honkers and Genshin, iim left wondering if one more of these thrown into the rotation would lead to an unbroken loop of clearing content in one before another updates...
@themightyant It’s pretty good IMO! You’ll end up playing it I’m sure! 😅
@Mintie That’s exactly what HoYoverse want! Haha!
@get2sammyb if ZZZ can make me care about the story as much as I care about HSR's they can keep me in full rotation.
This one looks interesting but can it rival gen shin impact
I'll check it out but so far I honestly don't really like the character designs (or rather their 3D models, their artworks look fine)
Genshin hasn't really dropped off in quality or content so I'll be sticking there for a while yet. I only have time for a single LS title.
I don't mind too much as long as that red head puppet woman's banner isn't up while it's still not on console lol. And if it is please don't take ages for a rerun
Never heard of this one before, and it only took me reading the title of the article like 5x to figure out what the title is, but I do like the naming of some of these games, Zenless Zone Zero, Wuthering Waves, I’m all about the alliteration.
No time to play them though, I get too sucked into these things. Maybe when Fortnite finally goes first person perspective and I stop playing that, one daily fix is all I need.
There really never was any doubt WuWa was coming to ps5. They never really denied it. That said can’t wait for next week when it drops. PGR from Kuro Games is amazing. Also side note super glad they are actually promoting the game. Took them….2? Years to do ANY ads for PGR.
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