Frontier Developments (who also announced F1 Manager 2022 earlier this week) are no longer pushing forward with a console version of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey.

Last year, Frontier released Elite Dangerous: Odyssey on PC, but the reception was lukewarm at best. The studio decided to fix the PC version first and postponed the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions in the process. That was the plan so far, but Frontier founder David Braben has taken the axe to the console versions in a blog post: Elite Dangerous: Odyssey will not be coming to the 2013-launch consoles, but the base game will remain available on both platforms.

“It’s no secret that Odyssey’s launch was less than ideal, including the need to split the PC/console player base to focus on a PC-only launch. Since Odyssey’s release in May 2021, we have worked tirelessly to improve the Odyssey experience on PC, and whilst we have made significant progress, there is still more to be done. We have been supporting the pre-Odyssey and post-Odyssey codebases since.

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 game’s story, and for us to do this, we need to focus on a single codebase. Elite Dangerous will continue on console and 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. It was not an easy decision to make, but it was made with the long-term future of Elite Dangerous in mind,” Braben wrote.

Elite Dangerous won’t be getting a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series version either, so there’s no reason to hope for a next-gen console release. The studio has also hinted that in the future, PlayStation 4, Xbox One saves could be brought over to PC, which would be the most apparent solution for everyone.

Source: WCCFTech