Elite Dangerous Sells 1.4 Million Units to Date Across Three Platforms

Written by Brandon Hofer on January 18, 2016

News: Frontier Development has revealed that Elite Dangerous is doing well and is entering its second year with expansions and more.

Elite Dangerous seems to be doing pretty well as Frontier Development has revealed that it has sold 1.4 million units across Xbox, PC and Mac. Elite Dangerous is the third sequel to Elite, created in 1984 by David Braben and Ian Bell. Elite Dangerous recreates the entirety of the Milky Way at its full galactic proportions, with an evolving player-driven narrative and connected multiplayer experience.

Starting with only a small starship and a few credits, players do whatever it takes to earn the skill, knowledge, wealth and power to survive in a futuristic cutthroat galaxy and to stand among the ranks of the iconic Elite. In an age of galactic superpowers and interstellar war, every player's story influences the connected gaming experience and evolving narrative. Governments fall, battles are lost and won, and humanity's frontier is reshaped, all by players' actions.

Elite Dangerous also offers full native support for SteamVR and looks to make a big splash in the virtual reality arena.

"We have an amazing player community," Frontier CEO David Braben said. "The average play time among our 1.4 million players is 60 hours – that's a massive 84 million player hours and counting. With the community's feedback, we're constantly making Elite Dangerous better than ever. We have incredible long-term ambition and we will continue to deliver on those ambitions. We will detail more exciting developments for Horizons very soon."

Elite Dangerous: Horizons is available now on PC for $59.99 (£39.99, €49.99, 3,990 Rubles) at Frontierstore.net and on Steam. Have you played Elite Dangerous yet? If not, do you plan on doing so? Tell us what you think below.