The HoYoverse slate can be pretty hard to keep up with at times. It’s spread across multiple platforms, but differently for each game. In 2024, Genshin Impact arrived on XBOX after four years on the market, and Zenless Zone Zero followed in 2026, two years after launch.
Petit Planet, HoYoverse’s highly anticipated life-sim game that offers players the ability to manage micro-planet-sized environments zipping around a solar system, is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 next year. But Honkai: Star Rail, which dropped in 2023 on mobile and PC and later arrived on PlayStation 5, still shows absolutely no signs of expanding to these platforms.
Honkai: Star Rail Isn’t Going Further Just Yet
During a press chat in Seoul, South Korea, Honkai: Star Rail’s lead game designer, Chengen An, spoke at length about the future of the wider HoYoverse. He addressed the ‘ambition’ to bring the game to a wider player base, but admitted there was absolutely nothing to share at that time.
He said:
We always want to reach a larger group of players, and we’re always looking into development for different platforms.
There are always pros and cons, like device performance and how profitable it could be, so we always make a comprehensive decision based on the gameplay experience, controls, and technologies.
So far, we don’t have much to share at this point, but please stay tuned to our official announcements.
It’s tactical, to be honest. He doesn’t write the possibility off entirely, and the notion to wait for official announcements might be a nod to something coming soon. But that’s just conjecture.
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