Consoles have their place and should stick to Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat and Burnout Paradise; 4X, FPS and RPGs are for us big boyz on our superior machines.
YEH BOI PC MASTER RAAAAAAAAACE OI OI OI!!!!!!!
But seriously, it won't suffer, seperate dev team, Paradox are a pretty good company for things like this, and they are trying to expand their reach into other markets, it's why they have board games. The PC verision will remain ahead of the console versions, PC is where Paradox make their money, but they want to dip into other markets.
Will Paradox cut staff in other areas? Probably, but not as a result of this sort of move, some dev teams use temp workers, or contractors, who are only hired for a single project. Then you have your arts teams, which is Paradoxs case will probably be shared, since both games will use the same assets.
Really, they need to bring on more devs to update their outdated engine.
Stellaris was ported to consoles.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”