The stunningly complex and vast space exploration MMO Elite: Dangerous is blasting off onto Xbox One at last.
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The third entry into the Elite series, which began back in 1984, Elite: Dangerous is perhaps the largest simulator ever created. Players explore, fight, live and die all in the brilliantly rendered, FULL SCALE MODEL of the Milky Way galaxy. While many of the billions - with a B worlds - star systems you can explore and exploit are procedurally generated, there is a terrifyingly large amount of systems based on actual scientific data.
I suppose what we're saying is: your move, No Man's Sky.
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"Elite: Dangerous for Xbox One will include all content added to the PC version by February's Community Goals content update and March's Wings content update. Available for free next week on PC, Wings unites players to cooperate and collaborate across the galaxy and share in the rewards together. Wings will empower players to help protect friends on a risky trade run, spread out to map systems or hunt prey, and work together to reshape the galaxy."
No word on an exact release date at this time.
Chairman and founder David Draben took to the game's forums to clarify any difference between the versions: "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."
He also confirms that all players, no matter the platform, will be playing in the same universe.
Perhaps, we are all just living in some simulation on some alien being's Xbox One. There would be a kind of hilarious cosmic irony to that whole thing. Regardless of our place in the universe, console sim fans should be quite excited for the news.
At GDC yesterday, Elite: Dangerous took home the Audience Award prize, which was...unexpected, to say the least, but a huge win for the space sim.
You can purchase Elite: Dangerous for PC today, and yes, it does come with Oculus support. A Mac version is due out soon, as well. Watch the trailer below.
