PlanetSide 2 PS4 Beta Starts Next Month.

Originally due out before the end of 2014, Sony Online Entertainment chief John Smedley has attached an early January launch date to the hotly anticipated PlanetSide 2 beta on the PlayStation 4.

Writing on Twitter, he told an eager fan: "We tried hard [to hit the aforementioned date]. As it happens, there are only a few weeks to go – either the week of the 13th or 20th [January]."

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/548969100567785472

The developer's free-to-play first-person shooter sure is sounding like an ambitious experiment, seeing as it will host thousands of players in the same space.

This is just one of a handful of MMOs on the way to Sony's next-gen system, with EverQuest Next and H1Z1 both set to launch at some point in the future, too.