Numbers first: December 7, 2018. That was the date Sony and PUBG Corporation confirmed, in November of that year, for the launch of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, PUBG, on the PlayStation 4. Among the big consoles, it was the one missing for the battle royale that had popularized the genre.
To make up for the wait, the PS4 version came with platform-exclusive items offered in pre-orders: Nathan Drake’s outfit from the Uncharted series, and Ellie’s backpack from The Last of Us. Check out the announcement trailer:
In practice, the PS4 was arriving late to a party that had been going on for almost two years. PUBG entered early access on PC on March 23, 2017 and had its final version on December 20 of the same year. At the end of 2017, the game reached around 3.2 million concurrent players on Steam, a peak that put it among the platform’s biggest phenomena. On Xbox One, it entered the Game Preview program on December 12, 2017 and officially left the testing phase on September 4, 2018.
What came next
The PS4 version came out on the promised date, December 7, 2018. Translating the market jargon: the paid-game model lasted as long as it could. After selling around 75 million copies, PUBG became free on January 12, 2022, already under the name PUBG: Battlegrounds, adopted in 2021. On November 13, 2025, it got PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions and, on the same date, ended support for previous-generation consoles, including the PS4 that waited so long for it.
Source: Eurogamer.
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