Planet Coaster: Console Edition launches during the holiday period 2020. Don't forget, the free next-gen upgrade isn't available for physical versions of the game if you move onto the Xbox Series S or the PS5 Digital Edition.

The next-gen upgrade means if you build a park and share it to the workshop, and then move on to the next-gen console, you can carry on with that same park from the workshop. Console players will still be able to use mouse and keyboard. The Grid Building Mode is also new, giving more control on spacing when building. Similar to its spiritual predecessor, the game allows players to build different theme park rides and roller-coasters.

Planet Coaster: Console Edition has 'been designed with couch gaming in mind,' says Frontier's Philippa Moore, 'so we've re-designed the interfaces and the UIs, so it's bigger, clearer to read, easier to see from your sofa.' There's also a new control scheme, new 'forward-facing blueprints,' and a help panel. Planet Coaster is a construction and management simulation video game. Career mode now has full voiceovers, and challenge mode has new difficulty settings for a total of four difficulty modes. New tutorial levels with new characters have been added to the console edition to guide you through the essentials, and then you can go on to play career mode, sandbox mode, or challenge mode. The news comes alongside the second dev diary for the console edition of Planet Coaster, which runs through ways to play the game.

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