Last year Frontier announced that they were halting any further development on console and splitting the galaxy into legacy and live versions, with the live galaxy being PC-only. They built a transfer process from console to PC to give console commanders who wanted to stay in the live galaxy a possible route to do so (including a free copy of PC Horizons). That's probably why you've seen a lot of chatter about this.
I'm not aware of a mechanism to transfer accounts/assets etc. between consoles. Older wiser forumites may be able to confirm.