Elite Dangerous Ends All Non-Critical Development On Consoles
Frontier Developments recently confirmed plans to cease all non-critical development for Elite Dangerous on consoles; as a result, the Odyssey DLC will not launch on PlayStation and Xbox platforms. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey released in a poor state for PC players in May 2021; the paid expansion ran rampant with performance issues, server-side troubles, and a whole host of immersion-breaking gameplay bugs. Suffice it to say, this particular DLC release marked a sad state of affairs for a game on the cusp of incredible change.
A space flight simulation, Elite Dangerous originally hit PC in late 2014, then migrated to Xbox One and PS4 in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Plenty of updates and expansions helped the game evolve beyond its launch version, but none were designed to be as transformative as the aforementioned Odyssey DLC. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey allows players to explore various worlds on foot for the first time and partake in ground-based missions. Following the expansion's troubled PC rollout, Frontier Developments delayed Elite Dangerous: Odyssey on consoles indefinitely to prioritize fixing the PC build.
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Frontier Developments CEO David Braben recently took to the Elite Dangerous website (via Eurogamer) to detail future plans for the title's console ports. Since the expansion's arrival on PC last year, the crew at Frontier has continued supporting two separate "codebases" — pre-Odyssey (PS4/Xbox One) and post-Odyssey (PC). The team has decided that abandoning console development beyond "critical updates" is the next best step to move forward with the wider experience. Consequently, Frontier has ceased development on Odyssey's console version,
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