‘Elite: Dangerous’ Will Finally Make Its Way To The PS4 With Out Of This World Features?

The fourth installment in the "Elite" series will finally make it to the PS4 in 2017. Elite: Dangerous is said to pack a lot of features and controls specifically tailored for the DualShock 4.

"Elite: Dangerous" promised to give PS4 owners an experience unlike any other on the console with the added PS4 pro support. The DualShock 4 feature enables the player to use the controller's touch pad to navigate the in-game map of the Milky Way system as well as customize four additional hotkeys for added accessibility. PlayStation 4 owners will also receive the remaining future Horizons updates for free, according to We Got This Covered.

The Elite series started off as a space trading game for the BBC micro, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Acorn Electron and other old school computers. The first Elite installment utilized the 8-bit technology during its time. Elite is considered to be the most important game in spaceship gaming history and has received recognitions for different award-giving organizations. From 1984 up to 2007.

The next "Elite" installment was called Frontier: First Encounters (Elite 2) released in 1993 and Frontier: First Encounters (Elite 3) in 1995. Both sequels showcased the evolution of space video game in a span of 11 years. According to the First Frontier webpage, "Frontier is the first game to have real-sized planets, where cities could be viewed from orbit, it was the first to use curved surfaces (Bezier), the only game to do a palette fit every frame to get the best use of colours (Amiga and ST only), and (apart from First Encounters) is the only piece of software (games or otherwise) that attempts to simulate our entire galaxy."

"Elite: Dangerous" is the latest installment of the epic series running on next gen graphics. The PC version was already released in 2015, the Xbox One version last October this year and the PlayStation 4 version next year. The New Elite is gorgeous and still maintains the 1:1 scale from small objects to large planets.