Out of Pod Experience

Rumurs are growing that the next gen consoles will be released late 2012- early 2013. Which begs the question "is Dust 514 screwed?" Since Dust is going to have a big impact in our game- how will this game being released on the end-cycle of a console mess up our gaming experiance in eve?

Well it seems that the developers are not totaly stupid after all. Info Linky Here is a quote i was interested in.

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Question: A key challenge with Dust is the evolving support from CCP. PCs are built to be continually updated, but PlayStations go through definitive step-changes. How can you provide a decade of support for a console that will be superseded in a number of years?

Pétursson: There is a big roadmap for the game and all its updates. Obviously we have to wait for customer feedback to determine our decisions. Now, we have been faced with technology upgrade challenges for years. We release new versions of Eve at a time when most people don’t have the technology to support it, so we operate both the old and new versions of Eve on the same client and allow people to migrate.

We will continue to develop on PlayStation 3 even after the release of Dust, and I think the game’s audience is more used to constant updates than people may assume. I mean, if you look at Call of Duty, that essentially is an online experience that has undergone mass migration across three games.

If there is a PlayStation 4 – which I can tell you now I have no idea if there is – but if there was, we would build Dust for that console as well. It will most likely be a revision of the experience, as with all updates, and could allow people to play across PS3 and 4.

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I would agrue that CCP has already developed the game for PS4- i mean, look at the disclaimer 'i dont know if there is a PS4' is near hilarious. All in all, it looks like PS3 and PS4 peeps will be playing together regardless.

Moved from Ships & Modules .....

No PS4 yet

So wrong... Rumors were growing about 1 month ago but if you were up to speed you would know that a PS4 release is not even close:

Kazuo Hirai said quite a while ago: "Andy (House) is absolutely right in that we are not making any announcements at E3,” and “I’ve always said a 10-year life cycle for PS3, and there is no reason to go away from that."

fyi Kazuo is the Representative Corporate Executive Officer and Executive Deputy President of Sony.

source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/01/10/sony-doesnt-plan-to-unveil-a-new-playstation-at-key-trade-show/?mod=WSJBlog


IF you are lucky (and i stress the IF) you can expect the PS3 in 2015 or MAYBE, MAYBE even late 2014 but theres no chance its gonna come any earlier. Sorry to stomp on your little dream world. now go and cry.


BTW another fyi: Old PS games always worked on the next generation of the Playstation console, so you can expect that Dust 514 will work on PS4 (in 2015 or 2016) even if its the "PS3 Version" and that ppl will be able to play together/against eachother without the need of a new "PS4 version"

maybe Dust 451 will be some sort of downloadable client that works on both systems. If you transpose the evolution of the EVE client originally created in 2003, it has gone through revisions but the same world, same accounts, same mechanics are still in place.

PS4 shoudl be a non-issue since Sony goes to great lengths to make their consoles backwards compatable with prev-gen games. Or at least create some method of playing earlier games on the new hardware.

Whenever a PS4 comes out, it will most proabably run Dust514 right out of the box.

Fall 2014 Japan
Spring 2015 RoW

Xbox 720 chips have been ordered on first revision to IBM, for the dev kit delivery sometime this year - making 18-24 months post final revision for Dev kits for a game to come out of that.

So, Xbox 720 should hit about the same time as PS4.

As for Dust development, you just push a button in UDK for whatever platform you want it on...so I don't see CCP not putting a version out there for PS4, in 2-3 years time...

The PS3 has got legs, and I doubt we will see the last of it for a great number of years to come.

AK

Backwards compatibility...? When the PS3 was announced the cell processor was touted. It's architecture was/is highly different from other platforms. If the same were true this go around they'd have said or let developers know. (assuming rumors are true.)

k forth
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k for the masses is a long way away - they wont focus a product on that, it will be 00p with 4k capability should you get it. Hell i have a 4k upscaling AV system right now - you know whatthis **** does early on, move thats what. All now is useless later.

i apologise for my keyboard - i dropped alcohol on it once too many times. the top row numbers are fudged.

Nice catch OP - everyone can read in whatthey will, but the general interview was pretty see through. Read it as is - anyone for a TL;DR, then thats your **** fault.

Theres a pretty disturbing rumour about the next Xbox being unable to play used games, if true it would be a very ****** move by Microsoft. The backlash from players would probably kill the console.

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