Sony In Talks With Night Dive for System Shock Remake PS4; Pre-Alpha Demo To Get An Update Next Week

Four days agone, Night Dive Studios officially launched a Kickstarter entrada to fund their System Shock remake project.

The campaign is going very well then far, with 80% of the minimum goal ($900K) already funded and 26 days left to unlock some stretch goals. There could exist even a spike in pledges from PlayStation 4 gamers: this remake of System Shock is targeting PC (Windows, Mac & Linux) and Xbox I first and foremost, but CEO Stephen Boot provided an update and said that the team entered discussion with Sony to bring the game on their console.

It seems like Nighttime Dive was mainly targeting Xbox One every bit a console because they received development kits from Microsoft, simply they didn't even endeavour to approach Sony until recently. That's co-ordinate to Night Swoop's Maxime Lebled, who's working on the game.

we are 100% self-funded; we were given Xbox One dev kits past Microsoft. Sony has not approached us nonetheless. That'south it

— Maxime Lebled (@MaxOfS2D) June 28, 2022

correct

— Maxime Lebled (@MaxOfS2D) June 29, 2022

While this isn't a guarantee of a PlayStation iv version even so, yous tin can expect an annunciation in the nearly future with more details.

In the meantime, Night Dive announced that the Pre-Alpha demo available on Steam, GOG and Humble Store volition receive an update early next week to prepare many bugs and issues; the studio besides plans to introduce "boosted features" to experiment with.

Finally, there's been a lot of give-and-take amid the backers regarding the potential RPG elements added with the $1.7M stretch goal (RPG progression, weapon upgrading, basic components/research etc.). Some users have been quite song against this because they feel that information technology could fundamentally change the manner System Shock is played.

Dark Swoop reiterated their "best intentions" to make a game that would challenge the actor while staying true to what people loved nearly System Daze. It will be interesting to run into if they choose to implement those RPG elements and in that case, how they're going to alloy them into the gameplay.

System Shock is tentatively planned for a December 2022 release.