Will Starbound be coming to Xbox and Playstation or not?

Just because some people will complain doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. I mean if you go by that this game itself shouldn't have been made, enough people complain about it.

The reason I said it wasn't an issue earlier is because a game like this will run nearly the same on current consoles and a PC.

 

And here come the arguments.....

 

I'm not against the idea of it getting a console version honestly, i'm all for it if they can manage to keep the PC and the Console on the same versions. What I meant by my comment was that people are going to complain if one or the other has some feature that their version has (example: Terraria)

 

I would not like consoles or PC exclusives with in this game either.

 

I'm proud to say that I've already called it.

 

PC MAST- Aww....

 

Glorious mustered race.

 

Good, glad we agree on that. Good day to you sir.

 

Well. That didn't take long.

 

Now the thread really has started to go off topic but not because of actual arguments over Console Vs. PC but in anticipation posts for the argument... Lol

I would suggest staying on topic to keep the trolling to a minimum.

 

Okay okay okay, I'll stay on topic.
I'm 90% sure I saw plans of a PS4 port somewhere but I'm not sure where anymore, as it was quite a while ago.

 

Funny how my comment didn't start a shit storm, but rather a very nice conversation between two gentlemen.

 

They already announced a while back that it will be on PS4 and PSVita if I remember correctly.

 

I don't want to sound like a PC elitist, since I'm not. I'm more of a console gamer than PC, but i do like and respect PC games, i think the whole "PC Master Race" thing is a little stupid but hey, let people believe what they want to believe if it helps them sleep at night.

Watch as this blows up more into a Console vs PC debate and it gets locked. If it hasn't already. No matter what you do, it will happen.

Bringing Starbound to the consoles would give me mixed feelings. It's always nice to let other people experience a game that they might otherwise never play. But, at the same time, i wouldn't want the game to be crippled for them, depends on the game of course. A game like Starbound , Terraria or Minecraft isn't a huge issue, Minecraft more of an acceptation for other reasons. Now, a game like Battlefield, i personally believe that the consoles only should had gotten the spin offs, such as Bad Company which are built with the restrictions in mind and not the main games, Like 3 and 4 which end up having the main PC game crippled a little because the devs have to cater more to the hardware (I'm talking about the PS3 and Xbox 360) are 7/8 years old and very limited, and the controls... Stuff like that.

Then again, completely different situations. Minecraft and Terraria being a indie game and something like Battlefield being a AAA game costing a fair amount of dosh each release and have a huge team of people working on them.

Minecraft on the Xbox was a pretty good port in my opinion, and in fact i wouldn't be surprised if i spent more time playing Minecraft on consoles more than PC, just because of my lean on consoles more than PC, that and my friends being more Xbox than PC orientated. The consoles were pretty good, i actually liked the smaller worlds and getting into multiplayer was as easy as 1, 2, 3. Of course, the Xbox version has the delay on the updates but meh, not much of a big deal. As long as i get to hunt down a fellow Scotsman while he mines away at stone, that's game of the year on my book. I just like being a dick to certain people.

Now, recently i ended up buying the Xbox version of Terraria, partly due to curiosity getting the better of me of how it works on a pad instead of the keyboard and mouse and the other being that i was bored as all hell, being a 3D animation student you end up having a fair bit of downtime when stuff is getting rendered out. £10 for a game that could last me for a long time. As soon as i started playing it though, the first thing that came out of my mouth was that i immediately regretted this decision.

The controls, for the Xbox version are kinda horrible, it doesn't feel right and that makes the game feel even more stiff and clunky than before. And somehow the graphics look even worse than it did on the PC, even though it's all just sprites. As a keen lover of sprites i already dislike Terraria's art style. If i remember correctly, the Xbox port got exclusive content for the release and I'm not entirely sure if that was given to the PC version. I'd imagine it was though. But really, it already controls like shit and that put me off playing it on the PC at the first place, so making the controls worse on the Xbox edition just made the game near unbearable for me during the first few hours.

I'd imagine there will be a port of Starbound, if that is the case then i hope the controls for that are up to snuff. Really, I'm not too sure right now. Obviously because it is beta right now it's something we really don't need to worry about right now. Let's get the game as perfect as possible before we try and jump that hurdle, yes?

 

I would probably get it for the Vita because I have one and it doesn't have many games. Also I wouldn't mind playing Starbound on the go.

 

Since it has a linux version it should work on the Steambox when that comes out.

 

Nobody said it would?

There's two or three Xbox exclusive equipment pieces and a ton of PC exclusive equipment.

 

There has been no mention of a console release as far as I know. If anyone has evidence of such, I suggest posting a link for clarification. There is no reason for a speculation war or console war. As far as anyone is concerned or knows there will not be a console release.

With that said - the only logical argument against it would be dev time and money spent towards creating a port that works well using a controller, and frankly their time could be better spent adding features and improving game performance post-release.

 

There is also creatures and bosses exclusive to each if I'm not mistaken.

 

See, i don't like the idea of having version specific creatures/bosses/equipment. That's what gets people worked up in the first place.