Roblox, the gaming platform standard with youngsters and younger folks, is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 this October. Dave Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, introduced the information as part of a keynote shared on the 2023 Roblox Developers Conference on Friday.
Roblox is a well-liked gaming platform the place customers each create and play video games. Within the keynote on Friday, Baszucki touted that the platform has roughly 65.5 million each day lively customers and that individuals performed 15 million totally different “experiences” in 2022. Along with PlayStation consoles, Roblox will launch on Meta Quest VR headsets “this month.”
The change marks one other entry level for console customers to play Roblox. Roblox is on the market to play on MacOS, cellular gadgets, Home windows PC, and Xbox consoles. Subsequent month, hundreds of thousands of PlayStation homeowners will have the ability to obtain the platform and its video games.
Roblox made headlines when the corporate went public in March 2021 with a $41 billion valuation. Regardless of a surge of customers and development, partly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the large firm has needed to cope with its justifiable share of controversy through the years. Points like moderating its content material for its younger customers, promoting practices, and methods it compensates its young developers current challenges for its creator-fueled recreation economic system.