A brand new job posting from Roblox hints that the corporate’s unfastened plans to develop to Sony’s gaming console are getting a lot nearer to changing into a actuality. The itemizing seeks a PlayStation console senior software program engineer to develop a Roblox app for PlayStation — {hardware} that Roblox’s recreation platform-within-a-platform has but to achieve.
The itemizing notes that the place will “assist construct and assist our recreation engine utilized by hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide for the Sony PlayStation platform” together with “all components of the appliance, from integration with the goal platform and person interface variations to efficiency optimization.”
Roblox CEO David Baszucki hinted on the firm’s expansive imaginative and prescient for added platforms in 2021, stating that the Nintendo Swap, Sony PlayStation and Oculus Quest all “make good sense for Roblox” in the long run.
“What you’re seeing proper now’s an unbelievable give attention to the cellphone by us, which we imagine is an extremely troublesome kind issue and essentially the most troublesome kind issue for that immersion,” Baszucki mentioned on an earnings name. “However these are all logical platforms and on the similar time, we gained’t share any ship dates for them.”
Hitting the PlayStation wouldn’t mark Roblox’s console debut. Whereas it is likely to be higher identified on PC, Roblox launched on Xbox One again in early 2016 and it nonetheless sits in Microsoft’s listing of the highest 50 most-played video games. Roblox can be fashionable on cellular and often tops the charts as the very best grossing recreation for iPad, beating out Genshin Influence — no small feat.
The job itemizing was first spotted by the hiring pattern knowledge firm RevealEra, and we’d notice that it comes with 5 free catered lunches per week and “limitless snacks,” an incalculable boon in these occasions of paycheck-shrinking inflation.