'Elite Dangerous' developer cancels all future console content updates

[KuruptU4Fun]

https://www.engadget.com/elite-dangerous-developer-cancels-further-console-development-to-focus-on-pc-091405266.html

Frontier Developments has cancelled further development of Elite Dangerous on Xbox and PlayStation and will no longer release a console version of its Odyssey expansion. "We have been wrestling with the best way to move forward, and it is with a heavy heart we have decided to cancel all console development," said Frontier chief David Braben.

This is going to bode well for CIG if it hasn't already.

 

[buffersandbeer]

Oof. Well I guess the downside to trying to play the console market is that you get a lot of limitations. And you have to port the game every few years. That definitely stifles the ability to innovate.

This definitely reflects positively on CIG's decision to stick to PC

 

[Montoya]

Consoles screwed up Cyberpunk too. This sucks for console users, but they need to tighten the focus and PC is where they need to be.

 

[KuruptU4Fun]

Consoles screwed up Cyberpunk too. This sucks for console users, but they need to tighten the focus and PC is where they need to be.

CR actually made a similar mistake when he let Origin (Richard Garriott) release Wing Commander 3 onto the Playstation. WC1 was like 6 years old already in the PC market and the PS had been around and Quake and Medal of Honor were popular at the time. However Richard Garriott's Ultima series made some good money from console ports. Coincidence???!!!

 

[BUTUZ]

Why did the Xbox cross the road??????





TO RENDER THE OTHER SIDE!!!!


MUAHAHAHAhahahaaa,mamaauahahha

 

[Talonsbane]

Possible unpopular opinion, but if CIG was to port SQ42 to the new XBOX & PS5, I wouldn't object, because that would be more funds as well as players getting a taste of SC to a degree, which would most likely benefit the development long term. IF CIG does this, they definitely will have to find a way to allow the console SQ42 accounts to be able to link their game to an SC account so that their progress in SQ42 can be added towards their SC account like ours will on the PC version.

 

[Radegast74]

Why did the Xbox cross the road??????





TO RENDER THE OTHER SIDE!!!!


MUAHAHAHAhahahaaa,mamaauahahha

I thought it went to the other side because I drop-kicked it after it got the RROD lol

 

[Talonsbane]

I thought it went to the other side because I drop-kicked it after it got the RROD lol

How long did your 360 survive to get punted across the road?

 

[Dirtbag_Leader]

Frankly I think it was crazy for them to even try in the first place. Same goes for all that cross-play stuff; a console is just so limited in terms of both hardware and peripherals it just becomes an exercise in futility on intricate high-level games. Leave PC games on PC and focus on making good controller-based console games for consoles instead. Mario Kart isn't near as much fun on a computer either!