Yep denied
Summary to date:
So we know it's technically possible, as when they "accidently" released the Black Friday skins for the Cobra MK4 and a number of us bought it:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0EdSzjdM0
Which is the closest we've got to controlling a Cobra MK4 on the PS4.
A timeline
(thanks Snowymonk) and the communication as follows.
- The Cobra MkIV was first provided as an exclusive on PC for anyone who pre-ordered Horizons before it’s released. December 2015
- The offer was then extended to March 2016 (on PC) to pickup additional sales
- Horizons was released on Xbox in June 2016 (three months later)
- Xbox commanders complained and the offer was re-instated on Xbox to appease them
- PS4 players queried the Cobra MK4 as a pre-order bonus after launch announcement
12/12/2016, 8:48 AM:
Gary Richards said: We are still working out the finer details of the PS4 Release and there'll be further announcements closer to the time.
24/11/2017, 3:23 PM:
Lloyd Morgan-Moore said: Unfortunately I don't have any news to give you on this at the minute, but we haven't forgotten about the Mk IV for PS4 players!
27/06/2018, 8:42 AM:
Lloyd Morgan-Moore said: I'm going to be chasing this up today, I'm aware how eager everyone is to get into the seat of the Mk IV [yesnod]
29/09/2018: Customer support said (link dead/wiped): We recommend PS4 users keep an eye on our social media channels for updates regarding the Cobra Mk IV
03/12/2019 5:45pm:
Paige Harvey said: We have nothing to announce regarding the Cobra MK IV’s availability on PlayStation 4 at the current time.
8/4/2020 9:32pm:
Tim Smith said: Currently, there are no plans for that at the moment.
16/7/2020 02:04pm:
Arthur Tolmie said: took me a while to ask the right people as this was before my time here. The Cobra MK IV was an excluve reward to PC and XBOX players that upgraded to Horizons within a year (I believe) and will not be coming to PS4.
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As well as the muddled "one-time exclusive" which was reoffered to PC, Xbox and LEP players, here's the links to "being unfair" (Fdev's words) to not offer the Cobra MK4 to Xbox cmdrs, but this doesn't seem to apply to us
The thread where FDev seemed to announce the Cobra MK4 offer to Xbox commanders:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/259478-Cobra-Mk-IV
Particularly
this post by Zac Antonaci, where he says it's to give parity between Xbox and PC commanders on the offer.
This specifically is much more about the Xbox Commanders having the same opportunity as PC players had.
Then
this follow-up post:
However, to be clear, if we didn't make this available for Xbox players it would have then become unfair to them (as they couldn't have purchased at that time).
Ultimately this should be a positive thing, for the Xbox Community answering the questions they have been asking about the Cobra MK IV but instead seems to be slipping into a debate about the finer points of shorter term promotional offers.
So yeah after waiting over three years, seems we are indeed the console peasants...