Stellar Blade: Blood Rain Dev Comments on Launch Platform Plans

One of the biggest announcements coming retired of Summer Game Fest 2026 was Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, the sequel to Shift Up’s enactment deed Stellar Blade. But portion we got an eye-catching debut trailer showing disconnected a caller protagonist, the platforms Blood Rain volition motorboat connected stay unconfirmed.

There’s peculiar involvement successful the day-one platforms for Blood Rain due to the fact that Stellar Blade was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment arsenic a PlayStation 5 exclusive successful 2024. A PC mentation followed a twelvemonth later, but truthful acold there’s nary Xbox Series X and S version.

Shift Up has confirmed it volition self-publish Blood Rain, leaving Sony down to spell it alone. That determination has sparked questions astir whether the sequel volition motorboat connected PC and Xbox Series X and S time 1 alongside the inevitable PS5 version. In an interrogation with IGN’s Simon Cardy blistery connected the heels of Blood Rain’s SGF uncover successful Los Angeles, Shift Up CEO and manager of Stellar Blade, Hyungtae Kim, said it’s excessively aboriginal to marque a telephone connected motorboat platforms, but did tease a multiplatform attack this time.

“Actually successful presumption of platforms, thing has been decided yet truthful there's not overmuch we tin reveal,” helium said. “We conscionable privation to scope retired to arsenic galore fans arsenic possible.”

We followed up to inquire if the program was for Blood Rain, which is aboriginal successful development, to motorboat connected the existent procreation of consoles, present astir six years old, oregon connected the adjacent generation. Hyungtae Kim replied with an absorbing answer, saying Shift Up is inactive aiming for current-gen consoles and PCs arsenic it has go harder to present important advancement successful exertion amid rising costs.

“We really spot the aboriginal of computers and the consoles with a batch of issues going on,” helium said. “It's becoming much and much expensive, and it's hard for it to go much improved oregon developed. So we decidedly privation to marque definite that the crippled tin beryllium enjoyed for those who person the existent PC and existent consoles.”

This week, caller Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said terrible representation shortages fueled by the AI roar is 1 of the largest obstacles Microsoft’s gaming concern faces. The ongoing RAM situation leaves small country for gaming console manufacturing, with Sharma telling Bloomberg that rising RAM and retention costs are the astir "uncomfortable and surprising" happening astir the existent authorities of the gaming industry.

"Usually what happens astatine this constituent successful a procreation is, your costs travel down, right? Memory, storage, et cetera. Well, with AI, representation and retention costs are going up. 2.75x alternatively than 50% down," Sharma said. "Just successful my archetypal 100 days it's up 50%, and I deliberation it volition proceed to spell up."

"'And so, the biggest situation and accidental is, however bash you marque affordable products during that time? And that's what the adjacent 100 days volition beryllium about,” she continued.

Sharma was asked gamers inactive attraction capable to wage for an costly console. "I deliberation it's costly if we bash not innovate," she replied. "I came to assistance that problem. Look, it is earthy that prices spell up. Every procreation astir america is raising prices. But I don't deliberation you tin rise prices done the hardware situation that we're seeing. And truthful it volition necessitate cardinal alteration successful presumption of however we innovate and however we deliberation astir the concern models and however we spell bring this to market, and we're moving connected that."

With that successful mind, astir are bracing themselves for precise costly next-generation consoles, some from Microsoft successful the signifier of Project Helix, and Sony successful what we expect to beryllium the PlayStation 6. In May, Sony said it had yet to determine erstwhile to motorboat the PS6, nor however overmuch it would cost, arsenic representation shortages proceed to deed hard. It’s worthy noting caller reports that Sony whitethorn person to hold the merchandise of the PS6 to 2028 oregon adjacent 2029 arsenic a effect of the AI-fueled spot crisis.

Ultimately, it does dependable similar Stellar Blade: Blood Rain volition motorboat connected PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S, we conscionable don’t cognize erstwhile exactly.

Here's everything announced astatine Summer Game Fest 2026 if you request a drawback up connected what the video crippled manufacture has successful store.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].