Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair is an updated port of Earth Defense Force 4, which D3 Publisher released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in Japan in July 2013, and in the West as Earth Defense Force 2025 in February 2014.
XSEED released Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair in North America on the PS4 in December 2015, and D3 Publisher released the game worldwide on Steam in July 2016.
D3 Publisher began streaming an English-subtitled second promotional video on Friday for its upcoming Earth Defense Force 5 PlayStation 4 game.
XSEED released the PlayStation Vita game Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders from Planet Space in North America in December 2015.