While not surprising, Frontier has also confirmed that there will be no next-gen console versions of Elite Dangerous, although they have hinted console players may be able to transfer their saves to the still-supported PC version eventually. Over the last several months, we have been wrestling with the best way to move forward, and it is with a heavy heart we have decided to cancel all console development. We need to be able to move forward with the story of the game, and in order for us to do this we need to focus on a single codebase. Elite Dangerous will continue on console as it is now together with critical updates, but we will focus on new content updates on PC on the post-Odyssey codebase. We appreciate this news is not what our console community were hoping for. This was not an easy decision to make, but it was made with the long-term future of Elite Dangerous in mind. The vanilla version of Elite Dangerous is available on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and playable via backward compatibility on Xbox Series X/S and PS5. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is out now on PC.
