Sure, see this post. Also, for context, 20% of the DW2 participants were from consoles. While personally I'd say that's not a lot, I think it's quite understandable that Erimus & co. wouldn't want to tell previous console participants and organisers(!) that they couldn't take part in DW3 if they didn't switch to PC.
Then there's also that exploration has changed a lot since DW2 has ended. On one hand, there are far fewer people exploring, so if one were to measure success by how many players signed up (which is a metric I wouldn't measure by, but there'll always be people who will), there's a significantly smaller pool to draw from at the start. On the other hand, finding interesting POIs is significantly easier since Odyssey, and organising meet-ups is significantly easier since carriers were added. Also, exploration communities today are mostly active on various Discords now, and most of the time built around squadrons. Whether that's better or worse is a matter of debate, but it's certainly another thing that's different from how things used to be in DW2's time.
Moving on, a minor note to add to Sapyx's post:
To others: don't forget though that outside of the converted catalogue stars (HIP, HD etc), the Forge doesn't generate stars which could be exactly like our Sun, nor does it generate ELWs which could be exactly like our Earth. You can get similar ones that are really close, but you couldn't get an ELW that's a perfect copy of Earth.
But then, that only matters if you want that. While there's debate over super-habitable Earth-likes (whether there'd be ELWs which would be better for life than Earth), you could certainly get star systems that would be better than ours.
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