"No plans to port Elite Dangerous to PS5"

[Cancelled Consoleer] boppa_ · Mar 29, 2021

Another Dev has announced a PS5 update to a PS4 game, this time the approach they are taking is to deliver fairly substantial improvements - 4K / 60FPS/ Graphical quality updates - in the form of a £10 update.

I'm guessing most on here would pay a similar price for Elite if it were available? I know I would.

Or would you only consider it as a free update, but alongside purchasing major DLC like Odyssey perhaps?

I know FDev don't have any plans for either, but maybe keeping the discussion going here helps keep this in focus as a core requirement for PS5 CMDRs who've so far been largely ignored.

Wreckfest Will Charge You $10 for a PS5 Upgrade in June

Next-gen enhancements detailed

www.pushsquare.com

o7

Aeorath · Mar 29, 2021

boppa_ said:
Another Dev has announced a PS5 update to a PS4 game, this time the approach they are taking is to deliver fairly substantial improvements - 4K / 60FPS/ Graphical quality updates - in the form of a £10 update.

I'm guessing most on here would pay a similar price for Elite if it were available? I know I would.

Or would you only consider it as a free update, but alongside purchasing major DLC like Odyssey perhaps?

I know FDev don't have any plans for either, but maybe keeping the discussion going here helps keep this in focus as a core requirement for PS5 CMDRs who've so far been largely ignored.

Wreckfest Will Charge You $10 for a PS5 Upgrade in June

Next-gen enhancements detailed

www.pushsquare.com

o7

I would pay for an upgrade to PS5 version. And for Odyssey, if they upgrade it.

stormyuk · Mar 29, 2021

Apparently the fuzzy UI is 'bloom' in PC graphics settings. We can't turn it off.

Aeorath · Mar 29, 2021

stormyuk said:
Apparently the fuzzy UI is 'bloom' in PC graphics settings. We can't turn it off.

Today was a good day... a little more of my hopes are dead

stormyuk · Mar 29, 2021

[PS5]Aeorath said:
Today was a good day... a little more of my hopes are dead

It's a school day for sure but, now I need to bug Frontier for the next 10 years to enable that option on console?

Which if history is to go by they won't..

Aeorath · Mar 29, 2021

stormyuk said:
It's a school day for sure but, now I need to bug Frontier for the next 10 years to enable that option on console?

Which if history is to go by they won't..

Ask yourself this question... is it even worth it?

Aeorath · Mar 29, 2021

And to add some more salt, Bugbear Entertainment, the developer @boppa_ just posted will upgrade Wreckfest has 28 employees!!! 28!!!

And yes, their game is multi-plat, all of them platforms, Windows, Xbox, PS4/PS5.

stormyuk · Mar 29, 2021

[PS5]Aeorath said:
Ask yourself this question... is it even worth it?

It took me 30 seconds. I doubt it will ever be read.

PS4/PS5 disable 'bloom' option in graphics settings

Today I learned that there is a feature in the graphics settings on PC called 'bloom'. On PS4 this was never really an issue as the game and system are in SDR but, with a PS5 in backwards compatibility HDR is enabled at the system level. To be honest even in forced SDR bloom is still pretty...

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tolm · Mar 29, 2021

boppa_ said:
Another Dev has announced a PS5 update to a PS4 game, this time the approach they are taking is to deliver fairly substantial improvements - 4K / 60FPS/ Graphical quality updates - in the form of a £10 update.

I'm guessing most on here would pay a similar price for Elite if it were available? I know I would.

Or would you only consider it as a free update, but alongside purchasing major DLC like Odyssey perhaps?

I know FDev don't have any plans for either, but maybe keeping the discussion going here helps keep this in focus as a core requirement for PS5 CMDRs who've so far been largely ignored.

Wreckfest Will Charge You $10 for a PS5 Upgrade in June

Next-gen enhancements detailed

www.pushsquare.com

o7

I would happily pay a little - £10 seems reasonable - for a PS5 native version with 4K/60fps and whatever other improvements might be possible - such as this “bloom” thing.

TBH, I would be more likely to pay for that than for Odyssey ... I’m still on the fence as to whether I am that bothered about being able to walk around in the game I bought to fly spaceships ... whereas an improvement to the flying spaceships part would be far more appealing.

Aeorath · Mar 29, 2021

[PS5] tolm said:
I would happily pay a little - £10 seems reasonable - for a PS5 native version with 4K/60fps and whatever other improvements might be possible - such as this “bloom” thing.

TBH, I would be more likely to pay for that than for Odyssey ... I’m still on the fence as to whether I am that bothered about being able to walk around in the game I bought to fly spaceships ... whereas an improvement to the flying spaceships part would be far more appealing.

I really don't care walking about stations or ground bases to do... things, but I will be very much interested about the on-foot exploration. So basically I am interested in phase 3 of the alpha.

[PS4] Filthymick420 · Mar 30, 2021

boppa_ said:
Another Dev has announced a PS5 update to a PS4 game, this time the approach they are taking is to deliver fairly substantial improvements - 4K / 60FPS/ Graphical quality updates - in the form of a £10 update.

I'm guessing most on here would pay a similar price for Elite if it were available? I know I would.

Or would you only consider it as a free update, but alongside purchasing major DLC like Odyssey perhaps?

I know FDev don't have any plans for either, but maybe keeping the discussion going here helps keep this in focus as a core requirement for PS5 CMDRs who've so far been largely ignored.

Wreckfest Will Charge You $10 for a PS5 Upgrade in June

Next-gen enhancements detailed

www.pushsquare.com

o7

When I switched from ps3 to ps4 on gta5 I had to purchase the game new again and just transfered my Rockstar acct. I would be more than willing to pay full price for the game if released on the new platform. I thought that was the standard

. I wonder if they didn't do it thinking we would want it for a free upgrade?

Stinja · Mar 30, 2021

[PS4] Filthymick420 said:
I would be more than willing to pay full price for the game if released on the new platform. I thought that was the standard

Mac players didnt have to pay to move to PC. Nor do PC players have to buy the game again when they upgrade their hardware platform

Yes i'm stretching slightly

stormyuk · Mar 30, 2021

Stinja said:
Mac players didnt have to pay to move to PC. Nor do PC players have to buy the game again when they upgrade their hardware platform

Yes i'm stretching slightly

To be honest I would probably pay a 'fee' if it meant that FDev invest the resources in it.

amigacooke {macOS} · Mar 30, 2021

Stinja said:
Mac players didnt have to pay to move to PC.

Indeed, it was seamless. I designed my HOLO ME avatar in Windows and it appeared quite happily in the macOS version.

ScruttocksRus · Mar 30, 2021

I'd be happy with a PS5 update to Elite Dangerous that stopped it from crashing when you perform a jump in or into a system with a heavy concentration of carriers. I actively have to avoid taking a mission to these systems.

stormyuk · Apr 5, 2021

Was thinking about this the other day and it could be as simple as unlocking 1440p for PS5 and calling it a high resolution mode. The PC can of course select a lot of extensive graphics options not available on console. Maybe they could detect the PS5 and allow us some further options.

I'd be willing to beta test it.

Barrakan · Apr 5, 2021

I’d pay solely to support the console section.

tolm · Apr 5, 2021

stormyuk said:
Was thinking about this the other day and it could be as simple as unlocking 1440p for PS5 and calling it a high resolution mode. The PC can of course select a lot of extensive graphics options not available on console. Maybe they could detect the PS5 and allow us some further options.

I'd be willing to beta test it.

Fairly sure the the PS5 doesn’t support actually outputting at1440p ... as part of an up-scaling to 4K solution, though? Maybe!

stormyuk · Apr 5, 2021

[PS5] tolm said:
Fairly sure the the PS5 doesn’t support actually outputting at1440p ... as part of an up-scaling to 4K solution, though? Maybe!

You are right it doesn't support an output at 1440p but many, many games even on the Pro internally render at resolutions smaller than 2160p and then are upscaled to 2160p.

Very few if any games on PS4 Pro run at native 4K and even with the PS5 many run between 1440p and 1800p internally before being upscaled to 2160p

This is probably why we'll never see it as the the Cobra engine might not even support different internal rendering vs output. Although on PC it does have super sampling options available.

I am not sure with Odyssey the PS5 will be able to sustain great performance at 2160p but, I guess it's all mute.

Interestingly Planet Coaster runs at native 4K on the PS5.

FatFreddysCoat · Apr 6, 2021

This is the annoying thing about having a PS4 and now PS5 versus an Xbox: even the last gen Xbox plays ED in supersampled true 4K.