It looks like the groundwork is going in.
- Focus on PC experience
- Release no details on console aspirations
- Delay console deployment date to tba in the future
Any announcement wont be posted on these forums first. It'll be part of a stock market update so Frontier will be able to string it out until May 2022 before they'll have to say something.
we quotes like:
- we believe it is right to focus our efforts on the core Elite Dangerous Odyssey experience for the platforms that we have released on
and
- the dates and details of the console platforms are going to change. We do not want to rush into confirming any dates or changes this has on our console release
It does look like Odyssey wont be coming to last gen consoles, and any console release wont be until 2022
(They might release the ship that was provided for the Horizons pre-release incentive - the Cobra MkIV to Playstation / console / Horizon commanders as a gesture of good will and recognition of the delay but that might just be wishful thinking)
Give me a reason as a Console commander to stick with the game