Will there be a console release as well?

[Blazin5381]

I know about the opinions concerning releasing an X Game on consoles, so please don´t bother with noting that XR was a failed try porting the game to consoles or stuff like that.

Is there an official statement from egosoft concerning a release of x4 on ps4 or xbox one? perhaps later, after a stable pc version was released?

thanks so far

[Elenoe]

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

Pleazze show me another Game with the Scope and Moddability like an X Game in X4 Genre,
Simulated Sandboxx Strategy this complexx is only found withing the X-Series.

to be in similar genre, any 4X game realy. Except they do much more computations with a bit more variables and with pretty higher precision.

In reality the fact that X games do that in real time especially WITH SETA on and all that nice graphic going on at the same time is kinda proof how simplified it has to be to even work :) it didn't in X3 (by no means I say it's not an achievement to make it work)

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

Getting it tooled into any other Platform than PC is a hassle of serious porportions.

performance wise... not sure. If VR version exists... it's doable even for consoles.

I believe there are other reasons why it is not done besides "consoles can't handle it"

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

The hole Point for Console is to drop in play some and get on with something else quickly.

no. There are attention needing games. Plus consoles-originated checkpoints (and PC save-wise arguments "but I need to leave now") also say otherwise. If you think gamers are not playing console games for more then 15 minutes, think again.

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

All the Threads left behind the last Time around have to be picked up properly or U loose huge amounts of Money and Time, Mess up Your Empire building !!

not really. You are just saying "FPS can't be played with controller so no FPS will ever come on consoles". Yet there they are. You just adapt. I've never experienced "loosing money" in X game EVER. Money only keep up. You can't loose much even when not paying attention (all those shows I've watched during X2 sessions :) )

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

Using any Console Released is simply not up to the task of handling of making this a workable Project in regards the Time it takes the Player to get up to speed after the latest Save has been loaded.

so you are saying no person with real life and family can ever play any X-game, right? :)

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

The Input Capabilities of any Console are severly limited. Trying all the KB Shortcuts a PC can handle ported over to a Console is not even worth thinking about !!

oh, but it is. The UI as I've seen is pretty clean. In flight mode you can only fly. Everything else is done on map with context menus. That's controllable with controller and I'm sure there will be complete controlling scheme for those. I wouldn't want to use it but then I didn't want to use Elite's UI with joystick either. But what other choice you have with VR covering your eyes? Menus, no matter how complex, are easy to control. The pain is navigation, but I've handled even that. X4 with it's 2D map looks much much easier.

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

Console Games are meant to Shine and having a blast with Friends is the Main Reason for their Xistance.

actually reason of their existence is the demand for single purposed on/off box for gaming demanding zero technical knowledge or maintenance. It doesn't really say anything else, about games, about genres, about friends...

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

Console Games are like Comic Books for me

then you should probably reevaluate that because it's kinda mislead. Consoles are just same computers, now even with the same architecture as PC.

You think Kerbal Space Program or No Man's Sky are "short"? And that your goal is just to kill one enemy or collect few resources and not a week long projects? :) Funny. ARK maybe?

Obiwan Kenobiwan님이 먼저 게시:

lots of Characters andd Plotwists like a X-Game

characters and plottwists like a X-Game, ok :)

FYI X-games are not that complex. They have simple rules, don't need exactly much brain to build an empire. Factory building and money earning is pretty straightforward compared to other games that makes my head hurt (like Factorio for example) or have complex or more tight economy (like EVE).

They just have messed up UI after all those years of features adding to the point the parts no longer fit the platform. Rebirth + X4 FTW.

[Elenoe]

Asmosis님이 먼저 게시:

Your kinda missing the point a bit. If you need 100 different inputs to play effectively, there's something horribly wrong with your UI.

I've once had 104 keys to control my computer and it wasn't enough :) now I have 112 + several macro keys and it's better :P

Shortcuts are shortcuts. You never needed that many keys to control the X game. You used most simply because they were menu shortcuts. That's all.

GW2 doesn't need that many keys to control either yet using chat without all those is not pleasant :)

And a lot of games have line o icons you can click or ... faster .. press a key. That doesn't really count.

There are only few games where you are sewerely punished for not knowing all existing shortcuts: Starcraft 2, Linux, Dwarf Fortress.

[HEXEN]

✠Deser✞🅵☢⚔⚔M✠님이 먼저 게시:

For the sake of game quality, immersion, and depth. I hope console isn't even a wink of dust in Egosofts eye.

This.

What else? Oh, whilst we're at porting it to consoles, what about multiplayer? Want Battle Royal, too?

[zombiewarrior07]

As a PC and console (XBX1) gamer, I will be the lone voice that says X4 on both platforms would be awesome. Xbox Live could provide a huge player base for the game, as well as generate LOTS of revenue for the Devs. More revenue for Devs = more resources to further develop the game. WIN - WIN!
Just my 5 cents. :-)

[Flippy]

I hope it gets ported to this gen or next gen consoles. Why not?

Really glad it was built for PC first and then if it requires next gen consoles fine.

Hope this is the way it is anyway.