Among Us PS4, Xbox One Port More Complicated Than You Think

Developer InnerSloth has explained why its popular online multiplayer game Among Us isn’t on consoles like PlayStation 4 or Xbox One yet. The biggest hurdle in the studio’s way is apparently player communication. According to studio programmer Forest Willard–who played Among us with a bunch of Twitch streamers earlier this week, including 5uppp–figuring out how to implement player communication in a game that’s largely text-based chat might prove difficult when porting Among Us to consoles.

“[A console port] is something we’re starting to talk about,” Willard said. “But we’d have to write a system for quick comms. It’d basically be for randoms, like Rocket League. I don’t know if we’d be able to implement console voice chat or not. I know one of the first things we want to add is a friend’s list-type account system because it’s real hard to…