The new 8.02 update, which brought minor balance changes to agents, bug fixes, and innovations in the Esports HUB, can be considered quite insignificant. However, besides all of the above, new mentions have appeared in the game files about the upcoming port of Valorant to game consoles.

Let's remember that patch 8.02 appeared in the game client tonight. Read more about all the changes in our material. Although there were not many innovations for ordinary players, dataminers found a lot of interesting information. The well-known dataminer KINGDOM LABORATORIES shared new mentions about the release of the game on game consoles in his official Twitter account. According to his information, new icons have appeared in the game files after the release of update 8.02, which are responsible for the sticks on game controllers. Among them are movement sticks in various directions on the XBOX One and PS4 game consoles.

Interestingly, every month there are more and more mentions of the upcoming release of the game on game consoles. Recently, dataminers also found mentions of a game controller. Read more about this in our material. It is still unclear why the files only mention the previous generation XBOX One and PS4 when there is a new line of PS5 and XBOX X/S. Perhaps they will appear later.

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It should be noted that there is no exact release date for Valorant on game consoles, but considering the volume of information that appears with each update, it can be assumed that the game will be released in 2024. It is also unclear whether a cross-platform mode will be introduced, but fans of the game unanimously beg the developers not to do this.