ARK: Survival Evolved har blitt en stor suksess på Steams Early Access-program, og overraskende nok enda mer populært til Xbox One. Selv om spillet også skal slippes til Playstation 4, så er det altså ikke mulig å teste det på Sonys konsoll ennå. Dette skyldes ganske enkelt at Playstation 4 ikke har et betaprogram slik Steam og Xbox One har, noe utviklerne hos Studio Wildcard synes er synd.
I et intervju med Gamespot sier nemlig studioets kreative sjef Jesse Rapczak følgende:
"We're pretty excited about PS4. We wish Sony had an early access program, and a lot of people have been asking us for it. We just kind of got to say, "Well you know, it's not really up to us. It's the way Sony runs things, the game pretty much has to be finished." There are a few exceptions that we're not quite sure why they made an exception for one game or the other, but Ark is in the state where at present time unless it's finished, it's not coming out on PS4 until they have some other program that allows us to do that."
Dette er dessuten noe han oppmuntrer spillerne til å be om:
"I do encourage anybody who's a Playstation fan and has a PS4 to ask Sony for the program; maybe they'll decide to let a game like ours be in an early access-type program."
Han understreker naturligvis at mangelen ikke vil påvirke PS4-versjonen negativt, for de tar med seg det de lærer fra Xbox One over til Sonys konsoll:
"It feels weird to say this, but fortunately the Sony players will benefit greatly from the Xbox early access. Even though they're different platforms, they're both consoles. Console gamers have lots of similarity; it doesn't matter what platform you're playing on."