The record breaking sales potential of the new generation of consoles proves that there is a potentially lucrative market for Odyssey.
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In addition, in the UK Sales charts, half of the top 10 are console-only games. This proves that although the console playerbase only accounts for 1/3 of the current Elite playerbase, the actual sales potential - and with it, the size of a console CMDR community - is far greater on console than it is on PC.
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Frontier have previously stated that they have no plans to bring Odyssey to the new generation of consoles, however, so it appears that their business plan for Odyssey directly contradicts those facts.
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They have also recently been asked for more information on when or if the console development for Odyssey will resume, and have answered with very little in the way of tangible information., which suggests they have no real plan solidified for console almost one year from the original console launch date of Odyssey.
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Do you think Frontier have changed their development plans for console since the indefinite delay was announced?
Do you think Odyssey will ever make it console?
Do you think Odyssey will really release as a last-gen only title in 2022?
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In addition, in the UK Sales charts, half of the top 10 are console-only games. This proves that although the console playerbase only accounts for 1/3 of the current Elite playerbase, the actual sales potential - and with it, the size of a console CMDR community - is far greater on console than it is on PC.
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UK Charts: Metroid Dread Stays Third As Switch Takes Half Of The Top Ten
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Frontier have previously stated that they have no plans to bring Odyssey to the new generation of consoles, however, so it appears that their business plan for Odyssey directly contradicts those facts.
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"No plans to port Elite Dangerous to PS5"
Update on PS5 release day 12-Nov-2020: Elite runs on the PS5 in backwards compatibility mode, 1080p 60FPS. Of the new consoles, Elite will only support 4K on the XBox Series X, according to Frontier. This is because there is no native version, only backwards compatibility. Frontier had recently...
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They have also recently been asked for more information on when or if the console development for Odyssey will resume, and have answered with very little in the way of tangible information., which suggests they have no real plan solidified for console almost one year from the original console launch date of Odyssey.
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*******Odyssey: Console Release ETA. *******
When will I be able to Purchase and play Odyssey expansion on console. (XBOX 1) Greetings Commanders. With the release of Update 5 on 1st July plus a few smaller server updates since, and Update 6 currently in development, I wanted to take a moment of your time to talk about the next steps for...
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Do you think Frontier have changed their development plans for console since the indefinite delay was announced?
Do you think Odyssey will ever make it console?
Do you think Odyssey will really release as a last-gen only title in 2022?