Because it still needs fixing
Odyssey is the expansion which added first-person exploration and violence on foot. Since it launched, many players have complained about bugs, performance problems, boring grind, and other issues. Our own review wasn’t impressed either.
Frontier have released a load of updates since then but ten months later, it has not improved enough. So they’re taking drastic steps.
“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.”
As for players on the now-obsolete console version, Frontierhave saidthey are “looking into potential options” for letting people transfer to PC but don’t have anything to announce right now. Fingers crossed.
