Elite Dangerous is headed to the Xbox One!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=121383

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Hi everyone,

When asked, I’ve said we’d be mad not to consider bringing Elite: Dangerous to console. Well, that madness is about to end! Today we’re announcing that we will be bringing the full Elite: Dangerous to Xbox One this year. Xbox players have supported Frontier well over the years, and thanks to games like Zoo Tycoon and ScreamRide we know the hardware well, so Xbox One is a natural fit for Elite: Dangerous’ console debut.

Elite: Dangerous on Xbox One will be the complete and authentic Elite: Dangerous experience. It will not be “dumbed down. We’ll be working with an all-new audience, but that doesn’t mean a change in direction for the game, and nor does it mean slowing development on the PC version. The second of our updates – Wings – is being beta tested by some of you right now, and the third will be coming in the spring, free of charge. We’ll be talking more about the third major update – Powerplay – soon!

More players across more formats means we can devote more resources to development. The more players we have, the better the game will become. Elite: Dangerous is a living game and it will keep growing on all our formats so long as people are excited to play it.

I’m also pleased to announce PC, Mac and Xbox One players will all share the same overarching narrative and galaxy state. That means even more players contributing to the wars, power struggles and Community Goals across the galaxy.

If you want to keep up to date on our Xbox One release you can sign up to be kept informed athttp://www.elitedangerous/xboxone .

With the new Mac and Xbox One players joining us we’ll see new faces on the forums and we hope you’ll make them feel welcome. The Elite: Dangerous community has always been strong, and I’m sure it’ll be even stronger the more it grows.

Thanks for playing, and Right On, Commanders.

David

So it's cross-platform but isn't. Elite Dangerous has a single universe server that all of the clients grab their data from on startup. Missions, the economy, state of the map, state of politics, and the current community missions are all stored on the server. When a player connects they grab these and run them on their client. When players play together or are flying around the universe, they are actually in peer-to-peer hosted setups.

Completing missions and trading effects the universe sim and the effects are seen by others. So this means if I'm trading on the PC and I crash the market for metals in a sector, players on the Xbox One will see the market crash. They can't interact with me directly, but they can see the effects of me trading. Make sense?

Anyways this comes as no surprise for me. Braben all but confirmed console ports months ago. It's just official now.

The game works very well with a gamepad in its current state. You absolutely do not need a mouse and keyboard to play it even on the PC right now. The game is slower paced and niche and there is no evidence that they'll change that.

Seems Xbox One and PC are really sharing each other's games. I'm not complaining.

Bah, I was hoping for proper cross platform play. That is a little disappointing.

Neat.

Inb4 trolls who called the game boring for being a pc game now praising it to the sun

I don't think that was lems on the whole so it will be maintained :P

I just finished ordering my parts today for a new rig with this partly in mind too.

The game isn't even finished.

Strangely enough most games being announced aren't ...

Not suprised, worked well with a controller... well I say "well" it was "Tolerable... just about"....

Much slower and less twitchy than SC ... so its a good fit.

So do Space sims count now?

Thankfully: rather than paying for an unfinished game; soon to be console cash-grabbed, I Quake 2 playeded instead.

quiet, sniper

That's awesome! From what I heard, the game was fairly obtuse for someone not a fan of the genre, but for fans of the genre, it sounds like it was top of the line, so yeah, good on Xbox One for getting this.

Man, Spencer isn't fucking around

I wanted to try this game since it reminded me of Star Citizen. I just wasn't into the whole pledging and playing more unfinished PC games. Now that it will be on Xbox ONE will get my ass moving on this game.

Inb4 all you inb4'ers

But the game is boring.

Herms getting owned :P

Meh frontier games.

It's a brilliant space sim but it does have a huge initial learning curve. In the current build, when you start you spawn at a random one of a couple of possible stations with 1000 credits and a Sidewinder, and then you have to figure out what to do next.

Microsoft is not fooling around this time with Pc/one interconnectedness. Good for them! and us!

if you have absolutely no imagination or friends/community, maybe

Such great news, I actually have been playing it with my xbox one controller on PC some of the time and it works well!

If you would have told me a crpg like Wasteland 2 and a Space game like Elite: Dangerous where coming to consoles I would have laughed at you lol. Wonderful news!

Stunningly boring game. Have some podcasts lined up if you try it.

Well none of my friend are interested in space sims. :(

I think any gamer should be happy with games going multiplat. At the end the decision will be up to the consumer on which system of choice they want to play it.

But things like that have no place here in SW, I know.

I hear that. Also nice that they're doing the whole cross platform play thing with certain games. I wonder how that will go.

Looks MS is copying Sony again and doing the whole "first console debut" thing lol

Dosent look at that interesting but i'd try it once it gets available via PS+ on PS4

Wut...

You mean MS ?

I heard about cross platform play for Fable Legends. I would love to play games like Forza or Dead Rising 3 with friends that own a Xbone.

Appearing first on xbox.. others later on...

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/03/04/elite-dangerous-will-make-its-console-debut-on-xbox-one/

Yeah, exactly. Would be cool.

Elite has never been on a console before, it making it's console debut on the Xbone is exactly that, it's console debut. "Debut" in no way hints that it will be on other consoles later on, you get that right?.

That said, it could very well be ported to the PS4 later on, but that article doesn't hint at it at all.

Absolutely. It would benefit both Xbox One and PC gamers.

And since they'll all be running Windows (10) there is no point not to do it. Unless them Xbox royaltees mean so much to MS. But by the looks of things, I think MS is moving on now.

Man the article clearly says " Its console debut FIRST on Xbox One* thats what i was trying to say :P

More games are always a good thing.

We got a ton of games announced today. Sony would have hyped this event to the moon for 3 months before announcing that many games.

They still remain the ass clown of SW.

Clue me in, dude. Besides this what else? I been in school most day

April Fool's Day is next month man. =P

Seriously though, this is great news for me as an Xbox One owner. And here I was thinking I'd have to settle for Space Engineers for time being because I'd have to wait until I get a PS4 to play No Man's Sky.

Another rental only possible with Phil's deep pockets.

Nice !! :D

Great news for X1 owners! I want this damn game on PS4 -_-

Lol. What a game. Released missing key features advertised in their kickstarter, and before they even make good and get the game running as promised they go off and spend time porting it to the xbox one. The games still basically a shell, I can see lots of people being very disappointed by this title.

You're making a fool of yourself. Save yourself whatever dignity that you have left.

@PAL360: "I want this damn game on PS4 -_-"

https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidBraben/status/573505047008444416

No worries, looks like it will be.

what? ppl hate space sims.

i mean sure this is great news for me who has been stuck playing space rangers 2 for the last 10 years but what an odd decision for people that want to make money.

Freakin X1 loses another ummmmm, console exclusive dagnabit hahahaha.....

Elite: Dangerous is Coming to PS4, Braben Clarifies

Xbox One exclusive deal has timed expiry date; Project also expected to come to Mac.

by Rob Crossley on March 5, 2015

@Riverwolf007: People hate space sims? Star Citizen has raised $74 million and isn't even out yet, Elite Dangerous raised like $5 million in Kickstarter.

Space Sims are alive and well. Eve Online has never been as popular as it is today (with like 500k subscriptions). There is a flood of new space games being made right now, many of which were kickstarted.

Makes sense to have it on latest current gen 8 install base of the PS4.

so then what happened?

there was a day when we were flooded with space sims and they were everywhere and on every format.

i could play master of orion, and homeworld and x and freespace and even the consoles got in on the action with excellent titles like colony wars.

a couple years back i wanted to buy one and the only really good thing that was out was freespace 2 with a gfx mod overhaul. (which i bought lol)

i mean sure you can always point to a few games that came out but overall space sims have basically been space herpies.

hopefully this is a trend that will continue though.

i love these things.