Tropico 5 Coming to PlayStation 4
Kalypso has today announced that their huge strategy/management sim Tropico will be making the jump to PlayStation 4 in the near future. Tropico 5 has you control an island over hundreds of years, adapting your playing style as your people learn to want and need new things.
From the press release:
“We are delighted to be able to work with Sony to bring Tropico 5 to PlayStation®4 and enter the next generation market.” said Andrew Johnson, Managing Director, Kalypso Media UK. “The PlayStation®4 version of Tropico 5 will expand the Tropico brand to the new generation hardware and to a new generation of gamers.’
‘We have been evaluating many new and exciting development opportunities for the Tropico brand and by bringing Tropico 5 to PlayStation®4 we open a new chapter in the history of the game’ said Stefan Marcinek, Global Managing Director, Kalypso Media. ‘By taking full advantage of the PlayStation®4’s processing power the island of Tropico and El Presidente have never looked better.’
Tropico doesn’t seem like it’d be the sort of game to be at its best on consoles, yet the last two games were released on Xbox 360 (and Tropico 5 will be released on Microsoft’s last as well). This seems more like a “follow the crowd” move, as much as anything, and it’ll be interesting to see how it pays off.
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