Heavensward Benchmark Character Creator (PS4)

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

There were benchmarks released prior to ARR launch as well and a PS3 version was not made available.

As stated above benchmarks are primarily to test the performance of your PC hardware. Since consoles all use the same hardware, there's generally no reason to release benchmark software on consoles.

[LineageRazor]

As stated above benchmarks are primarily to test the performance of your PC hardware.

That is the purpose of a benchmark, yes.

However, what people are clearly most excited about the benchmark is the opportunity to play with the character creator and the new Au Ra race. SE HAS to realize that's the case - but they've not said much on how, or even IF, PS4 players will be able to preview Au Ra. PC players preview Au Ra by running the benchmark (SE has even gone so far as to say that they'll be able to save the character appearance data for use with the real game). Console players preview Au Ra... how? Will they be able to pre-create character data, just as PC players will be able to? It's a valid question.