Has anyone heard anything new regarding Age II being ported to Playstation? There was quite a stir on reddit back in November 2024, when two players were seen with the Playstation insignia on the ranked ladder. Seeing if anyone has heard or knows any more news.
Doesn’t sound too unlikely tbh considering Forza Horizon 5 has been confirmed just a couple of days ago.
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imo more players the better, and they already have working console controls so its just leaving money on the table if it isn’t ported
same applies to 4 as well
plus it would be a nice homage to old school PS2 port in a way, but actually playable this time
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Yeah, and if I recall correctly, Age II was on PS2 back in early 2000s.
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I agree, the more the better. I think the Xbox port was very successful for the most part. Not sure how the numbers actually show but players can play it and if they practice play well enough to play on cross-input ladder. It would be a nice spike in numbers for at least a couple of months.
Yeah, I recall that I think pop was like 50.
Yep! The PS2 port came out just a couple of days before the original Xbox launched
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Still depends on how much it costs them to port, patch issues, and support. If the playerbase numbers don’t end up justifying the cost, then it could end up being a waste of money that could have been spent elsewhere (DLCs, Chronicles, etc). And ultimately if it is low return on investment, Microsoft could be more keen to give AoE2:DE the veritable boot like they did AoE3:DE and AoE1:DE. Businesses like MS aren’t usually in business to be a charity. And it could also have a side impact of delaying or canceling any AoE5 notion, if the console returns don’t impress due to lost $$$
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Speaking of console, I hope they eventually find a way to bring the editor and full mod support over to console.
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A food for thought as a joke. Should Android port for DE, worth it? Can it bridge gap between competitive players and mobile players?
AoE2DE officially ported to PS5.
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My buddy already plays on his phone through Xbox Cloud Gaming with a controller. lol
something like more native in touch screen. Should be far better than controller in theory actually.
Same, most of the Xbox community would like to branch out and participate in other discords’ tournaments. Custom players want to play new scenarios… and most of us want that fish with borders mod. lol
I wonder if they will be combining the Xbox and PlayStation ladders? For Console we have two cross input settings, one for xbox input and another to play on the cross-input ladder. Why? I am not sure… I presumed it was for MnK players to play on the Xbox console, but from my knowledge the hotkeys were too much of a mess that it was better to just play on pc with xbox pass.
it’s happening!
also: playstation players on reddit are asking about the control scheme. Some people are saying that there is mouse and keyboard support (total rubbish based on my experience!) the mouse and keyboard support might exist in theory but it doesn’t seem to work. They are in for a surprise.
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Yeah, but it might be like the Xbox console where it is there but its not as good as just using it on Pc.
That actually sounds like a good idea.
Android and iOS are certainly popular platforms.
Depending on the performance the game could even run on Android TVs, ChromeBooks, Apple TV and of course also iPad and macOS.
The game should support all 3 input methods:
Touch, controller and mouse.
iOS and Android both support controllers.
Android, iPadOS and obviously macOS support mouse and keyboard (I don’t think iOS does and if so the devices are kinda small).
You can already run AoE2DE on macOS with an emulator but a native Apple app would certainly help.
It would also be nice to see touch and controller support on the PC version too. Most laptops come with touch screen and devices like the SteamDeck have a build in controller.
Make the game accessible for more people!
i still wonder if you could do some fake touchscreen input layout on some touch screen device. UI will need complete touch up. I dont think of remembering any proper RTS doing touch screen. So here are my few thoughts designing it.
- QWERTY layout should be easily doable for unit creations and other unit commands.
- To navigate around the screen, you’ll have a hold button, in this mode you can move around screen easily with other finger. Leaving it will bring you into basic unit selection like being able to box.
- Minimap needs to be slightly larger to pan through map easily
- There should be separate spaces(horizontically) for buttons alone and shouldn’t interfere with game screen.
- In those separate spaces you’ll have go to buttons, quick group deselects, unit groups, etc.
Maybe thats kinda it. Tell me if I miss something.
The biggest challenge will be fitting all the UI on a 6" screen while still making the units readable.
It will certainly be a bit harder to control but the auto economy from the console version will help with that. Also maybe they should add auto queue like in AoMR.
It certainly can’t permanently show the full unit controls and minimap because they would need to be relatively big to be intractable.
On tablets that would all be way less of on issue. Most tablets are >10" nowadays.
dont like auto economy much tbh. I think control should be done in such way that it’ll do less automated stuffs and more close to the skill ceiling of PC players nearly.