Dismay - they're releasing ED to the console fratenity

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Nooooooooo!

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I realise that scales of economy dictates pushing a game release to as many formats as possible but damn - Xbox - really? (or any console for that matter).

For years I played Call Of Duty, a PC only game up until COD2 when it got it's first (terrible) port to console. Arguably COD4 was the pinnacle of that franchise with later versions being produced for the console market AND then ported to PC almost as an afterthought along with demise of dedicated servers and the loss of community support that that entailed. The yearly demand for new titles largely from the console community helped to put that franchise in the toilet as the gameplay became about optimisation for the console market.

I am not saying that this will happen with ED but it makes one wonder if the game will end up being dumbed down to allow console players to do well. I assume that the game is going to be cross-platform or am I wrong and the consoles will get their own environment server(in which case no need to worry).

We have waited so long for the PC to come back into it's own both with ED and in years to come Star Citizen...I would hate to see any console jeopardise that rebirth!
 
I think the future of gaming is with the new PC/Console machines like the steam Link etc, which should arrive later this year - change is in the air right now.
 
FD reckon on that it won't hamper development at all. Guess only they know the answer to that. I personally don't believe it will be bought in any great numbers on console. And frankly for Braben to announce this when the pc game is so anaemic and watered down is a slap to the face for the pc community. It honestly has all the hallmarks of a fire sale now...."quick get it out in any state on as many platforms..take the money and run"
 
400 Billion systems - Let's face it, we're never going to explore them all, get all platforms into the same environment
 

Sir.Tj

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We already have a thread discussing the upcoming xbox release, you are welcome to continue discussing it there.

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