Rumor: Riot Games Moving Forward With Valorant on Consoles

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Valorant, Riot Games' free-to-play competitive first-person hero shooter, is coming up on its second anniversary. It remains a striking success, and Riot has already announced plans to expand Valorant onto mobile platforms. What it hasn't promised, however, is that Valorant will eventually be released on consoles. While Riot has previously said it was «prototyping» a console version of Valorant, no announcement has followed. That may be changing soon, however, going off recent clues.

There are two significant pieces of evidence indicating that Riot Games may be moving closer to releasing Valorant on PlayStation and Xbox platforms. First, there are multiple Riot Games job listings for console-focused positions working onValorant. Perhaps more persuasive are two lines of code hinting at console support recently put intoValorant as part of an update. To be clear, there's no official confirmation of a console version of Valorant yet, so this remains a rumor for the time being. The evidence is persuasive, though.

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The job listings found on Riot Games' website include positions for multiple Senior Game Designers, as well as a Software Engineering Manager. The Software Engineering Manager is specifically tasked with transforming theValorant development team into a «multi-platform studio.» The first responsibility for the position is «to bring theValorant experience to consoles.» It doesn't get much clearcut than that. However, building toward bringingValorant to consoles is much different than releasing it on consoles.

That's where the recent Valorant update makes things interesting. Two specific strings were included in the Valorant update found within the game's files. The strings read