A portly, bronzed man not too far removed from his twilight years sighs out a wave of tobacco-laden wisps.  "Then we shall give the people what they wish for.  Jorge, load up the trucks.  Prepare the propaganda tapes.  We will show them the power of the Playstation 4."  And thus it was that a new version of Tropico 5 was created for the Sony's Home Entertainment and Reeducation System.  Early snippets of the gameplay can be found below.

Waterborne, the Tropico 5 expansion releasing on December 17th, will allow you and three like-minded dictators to extend past the previously impenetrable coastline that surrounds your island.  Like a child first learning to swim, your citizens will no doubt need time to acclimate themselves to their new front yard, and what better way to prepare them than by creating a floating apartment building and forcing a few lucky folks to spend the rest of their years on a dubiously constructed barge!  Involuntary living situations aren't the only way for a leader such as yourself to display his dominance over this new frontier, though.  Your farmers, who previously found themselves sequestered to growing fruit, vegetables, and the dreams of the everyman, are now able to harvest the ocean's bounty through kelp and oyster farms.

Path 1.04 includes a whole bunch of tweaks, fixes and improvements.

Kalypso also announced that Tropico 5 will also be coming to the PS4, another first to the series (this will be the first Sony console for Tropico). While the game had been previously announced for PC, Mac, and Xbox 360, there's no word yet on an Xbox One version.