There’s no way we’d see this before first quarter 2023, as I said, maybe it gets rushed to get it out before Christmas 2022. Once they port it, they instantly realize that it just can’t run on the current generation of consoles, just like Cyberpunk 2077, and then the real work starts. I know they’ve ported the current Odyssey build already and know this, but it’s pointless to do anything except base texture and controller input optimizations to it because when you keep making optimizations and content drops on the PC side, and that invariably affects other things you’ve already optimized on the port, so not much beyond basic exploratory work is being done on the console build. Just like everyone in the gaming industry, I’m sure they were all privately hoping that the console bottlenecks with getting next gen consoles would clear up by now so they wouldn’t have to try and make it backward compatible, but we all know that’s not going to happen. They got at least two quarters of intense work on that once it’s ported.
Once the PC side is done, and the port has happened, then they’ll do a full alpha, probably not a public alpha though, then two rounds of beta, just like the FC Update. Add another ten to twelve weeks for these to happen. For the middle next year to happen you’d have to assume they’re done with Odyssey PC after Update 8, and I think we can all agree they're not even close.