ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Horizons for PS4

Greetings Commanders, we've got some very exciting news today! We're bringing Elite Dangerous: Horizons to PS4 in Q2 of 2017!

We think CEO David Braben said it best in today's Playstation EU blog:

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"I’m thrilled to announce today that Elite Dangerous is coming to PlayStation 4.

In Elite Dangerous, every star in our night sky – the whole Milky Way – is there for you to explore how you choose. Fight, bounty-hunt, trade, assassinate, mine, explore your way across human space and out into the immense galaxy beyond, flying with your friends or travelling alone.

Elite Dangerous has been a wonderful project to be involved with, made by a great team here at Frontier. Its roots go all the way back to my first commercial game, Elite, first released in 1984 with Ian Bell, while we were both at university. Two sequels followed. Over thirty years later, Elite Dangerous is a huge step forwards from those games, but the principles are the same – do what you like and live life in an immense galaxy – and today you can play with (or against!) friends and our amazing community as you travel the galaxy alone, together in a ‘wing’ or even fly aboard the same ship.

It is great to come to PlayStation. When Elite Dangerous arrives on PlayStation 4 next year, we’re bringing the full game with everything in our ‘Horizons’ season of expansions included, so not only can you fly your ship, but you can carry an ‘SRV’ – Surface Recon Vehicle – in your hold, and charge around the surfaces of planets and moons at up to 100mph, finding materials, attacking bases, or seeking out hidden secret things with your friends.

When you progress far enough in to the game to buy one of the larger ships you might choose to carry a ship-launched fighter to help defend yourself; you can employ crew or even allow other players to help you pilot your larger ship. Craft special weapons with the Engineers, collaborate with the community and engage in massive-scale community goals. Elite Dangerous is a game you’ll play your way.

Elite Dangerous does not follow many of the rules of other games. It lets you move as fast or as slowly as you like, without telling you what to do or how to do it. Play purely as a sandbox – exploring and looking for some of the many mysteries within the game – or follow missions and work with other players to re-shape humanity’s control over the galaxy, as you make your way to Elite status in any or all four categories in the game – Combat, Trade, Exploration and CQC.

We’ve worked hard to make Elite Dangerous the richest space simulation ever. From our love of science and astronomy, the galaxy is as real as we can make it. You’ll look up at the night sky in our own Solar system and you’ll recognise familiar constellations, then see them change as you travel away from Earth. Visit real white dwarfs, neutron stars, even black holes that exist in our real night sky. Every distance, orbit, planet, moon, ring and crater is as real as we could make it, with some 160,000 stars in the game taken from real star catalogues, with the rest of the 400 billion stars coming from stellar density maps to make the whole galaxy as accurate as possible. It’s a huge, real galaxy you can leave your mark on.

The galaxy is gradually evolving as players overthrow governments, align themselves with powers in the game, play with one of the giant like-minded player groups, or simply strive to discover something new. Two giant superpowers are on the edge of war, and there are hints of a nascent alien threat that may emerge as a quite real one any time now… We’re excited to let PlayStation 4 players jump aboard at this critical moment for our galaxy!

We’re making full use of the PS4 system and the unique features of the PS4 and PS4 Pro to deliver an experience unlike any other on the console, with features tailored to the DualShock 4 controller, whether you’re down on the surface of a planet or cruising around a stellar system, connected with your friends or meeting strangers out in the black of space.

We’re looking forward to telling you more about how we’re supporting PlayStation 4 in the coming months, before we launch in Q2 2017. We have had a great time with Elite Dangerous already. I hope you’ll come and join our fantastic community, and I’m looking forward to meeting all the PlayStation 4 players exploring our galaxy!"

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We're very excited to welcome PS4 Commanders to the Elite Dangerous galaxy as we continue to develop the game for Xbox One, PC and soon for PS4!
 
So we got 2.3 release time Q2. Announcement trailer has clip of 2 cmdrs in same ships and faces. So another 5 months before next update? 6 months between content updates? 2.4 this time next year?
 
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Amazing - instant buy.

Wonder if I can link my existing commander across (cross-play)?

No mention of PSVR, maybe not enough power to run this in VR on PS4?
 
So we got 2.3 release time Q2. Announcement trailer has clip of 2 cmdrs in same ships and faces. So another 5 months before next update? 6 months between content updates? 2.4 this time next year?

I wouldn't assume this at all. They just put together ad with 2.3 content. They can't show anything more than that.
 
All I want is commander sharing with PC, that way I'd have proper controls for "gameplay" (but then, there's the TM HOTAS 4…) and couch exploring. Best of two worlds.

Seriously there's a HOTAS controller for the PS4.
 
We’re looking forward to telling you more about how we’re supporting PlayStation 4 in the coming months, before we launch in Q2 2017. We have had a great time with Elite Dangerous already. I hope you’ll come and join our fantastic community, and I’m looking forward to meeting all the PlayStation 4 players exploring our galaxy!"

Q2 2017 that's between April 1 and June 30 which is still far, far away. Maybe this announcement is too soon? I like the confirmation though.

Can Xbox have cross platform with PS4...pretty please...

Also, who wants to place bets that it'll launch at the same time as 2.3


Yes at that time I think Update 2.3 and 2.4 will be already released.
 
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Huzzah! Ah, we could sense those rumblings!

So, any chance of PS4 Pro added features or PSVR support?

Ah, here's an answer on reddit:

"We've got a heck of a title for VR, as already seen with Vive and Oculus. We're definitely looking forward to doing this, but right now we have no news on it. We've got a lot of work to do back-end to make sure that any new technology we support maintains our high quality benchmark."

OH GOOD
 
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Great news indeed xD.s it's probably too early to say(but I know you'll get asked the question) will Elite use the extra features of the PS4 Pro? (e.g higher resolution, improved gfx etc)
 
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