Wild Rift will not launch on consoles “at this moment” the producers have declared in response to a spike in speculation and questions from the community, which has only grown louder after other Riot Games titles like VALORANT and 2XKO expanded to console platforms.

The producer’s announcement, shared on X (formerly Twitter), emphasized that the choice to forego a console launch for the handheld League of Legends game was deliberate. The main reason cited was the need to prioritize mobile development over balancing resources between mobile and console platforms. According to the producer, PapaSmoothie, the MOBA genre has not seen the same level of success on modern consoles as other genres, making the trade-off of splitting the dev team’s focus a little unwise.