ARK: Survival Evolved har været en gigantisk succes på Steam via deres Early Access, og, overraskende nok, en endnu større succes på Xbox One. Selvom spillet vil udkomme på PlayStation 4 på et tidspunkt, kan du ikke spille det lige nu, fordi Sony ikke har et Early Access-progream, der lader dig spille spil før de er færdigudviklet.
Studio Wildcard ville ønske at dette var anderledes, og instruktør Jesse Rapczak sagde i et interview med Gamespot:
"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."
Han synes at gamere bør spørge Sony efter sådan et program:
"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."
Heldigvis lader det ikke til at have en effekt på udviklingen af PlayStation 4-versionen:
"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."