Report Encore on PS4 Delayed to 2015, Steady Progress

[Flotilla]

With only two months left in 2014 for Skullgirls Encore to have made its Playstation 4 and Playstation Vita debut, Lab Zero Games announced yesterday that plans for a 2014 PS4/Vita release of Skullgirls Encore have been pushed further back to early 2015.

As detailed on Playstation Blog's news post, Lab Zero is expanding the scope of the ports to include new, as of yet unannounced features. Although this necessitated a release delay, the team has taken to Twitter over the last week to showcase their progress in porting Skullgirls to Playstation 4.

Spoiler: Click me to open a gallery!

BEHOLD! The first screenshot of Skullgirls running on the PS4! Enjoy the texture corruption while it lasts.

Another Skullgirls PS4 screenshot, this time of the story mode!

Believe it or not, this is progress.

This actually shows a significant amount of shader progress.

Backgrounds are coming along, and we’re making progress on the lighting.

Instead of just waiting around for next-gen Skullgirls, you could be playing with its newest DLC character Eliza right now! Available here for PSN, and here for Steam. She'll be free for three months, and if you get her in that time you own her forever!

 

[EA575]

I'm pretty excited to see the character designs in the final version if they're making significant shader and lighting progress.

 

[Zidiane]

I already read all about this Skullgirls news on SRK. It's where I go for all my Skullgirls news.

 

[Ninja]

MAN I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE WERE PORTING SKULL GIRLS TO THE GREATEST CONSOLE EVER: THE ATARI 2600. MAN WE GOING TO THE NEW AGE OF FIGHTING GAMES SON~!

GET THAT CASH MONEY GURL~

 

[MysteriousJ]

I'm pretty excited to see the character designs in the final version if they're making significant shader and lighting progress.

Pretty sure they mean just getting it to work on PS4. It won't actually look different from current platforms.

 

[drewski]

MAN I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE WERE PORTING SKULL GIRLS TO THE GREATEST CONSOLE EVER: THE ATARI 2600.

rip headphone users

 

[Clawsome Bombs]

rip headphone users

Hey how did you get the new "Game Over" theme

 

[werewolfgold]

That's cool. I like new features. I may be willing to drop more money to support SG by getting on PS4. I have to get a PS4 first though.

I wonder if there's any chance of a tweaked opening with more of the characters haphazardly stuffed in there somewhere. lol

 

[Mr. X]

I already read all about this Skullgirls news on SRK. It's where I go for all my Skullgirls news.

Ouch :[

 

[Zidiane]

Ouch :[

You guys are, of course, really on the ball the vast majority of the time regarding the news, allowing me and others to go on the comments of other sites and know what we're talking about when they get a detail or two wrong, or if the comment section is having trouble grasping something we can help educate them. I'm actually just really surprised they beat you to this, I think it's the first time it's happened?

 

[Mr. X]

Im kidding but it happens pretty often lol

 

[Cellsai]

I tend to be in work when news is released so it's pretty common that I can't get news posts together very promptly!

 

[SONOFCAVEMAN]

I'm quite curious to find out what some of these unannounced features are, sounds interesting, but I guess I'll have to wait till later to see them.

 

[k0mbatdan]

At least they're making progress.

 

[ink_deer]

So is that the new character arrangement?

 

[earlfriend]

So is that the new character arrangement?

Nope.