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I wouldn't imagine CCP are idiots and aren't well aware of the FPS dynamics on consoles. Thus I doubt their goal is to position DUST as a direct competitor to CoD or Killzone, but stress the MMO rather than the "shooter" aspect instead.

DUST 514 will easily be a CoD and BF killer!!! I already have my copy reserved at Amazon.com.

Most of eve user cant play dust because they have no PS3. So dust will be fail. Simple.

I agree with your statement that a game lifespan is not bounded by the console hardware lifespan but a games popularity and community can be limited due to those reasons.

Crimsons Skies Xbox, one of the first games that took advantage of xbox live, an excellent arcade flight combat game. No one plays now because everyone is on a 360.

Look on the opposite side.

Counter Strike release date 1999, still servers running the game even with Counter Strike: Source being release. A stable platform that is 100% backwards compatible will keep a games life span around longer then the hardware lifespan.

The issue with some of the previous consoles is that they are not backwards compatible. That's why PC games end up holding their communities together longer. Because as people upgrade their hardware they are still able to play the game. It does not affect them like upgrading console hardware.

When I bought my 360 I packed up my original xbox. Sold most of the games and the xbox and moved over to my 360. When I got my PS3 I packed up my PS2 and games and gave them all to charity.

The majority of console players will not stick with an older system when something new comes out, and when the older systems become outdated most of the software and community goes with it. I am not saying all will do that but a large portion do.

So unless the PS4 is 100% backwards compatible you will see a drop in players as the console life cycle moves on.

Riggs

Regardless of anything else, CCP are going to have a hell of a job selling it in the UK.

Largest game retailer in the UK (Game) announced results recently and they're not good - basically they're seeing a 16% fall in sales over the year (on a like for like basis) and are expecting the market to become "substantially weaker" over the next 12 months. European and US sales are looking similar although US sales seem to be holding up a little better (still bloody awful though).

tl;dr people aren't buying games (on console/PC) like they used to and in the UK at least its going to get a LOT worse before it gets better.

OMG a Gaming company is developing a game. STOP IT!!!

Statistics on pirating ?

backwards compatibility only works on one premise: you're not adding anything more to the game. if they do add anything more to the game which being CCP and EVE-linked, it is bound to happen, what will probably happen is that it will either see a release in disc format with updated graphics or a PSN download for those already subscribed (or for those who want to skip the physical copy).....

secondly if they really want to make this work is to really beg Microsoft to give them an exclusive pass to the XBL system's bubble of certification and have PS3 and 360 player playing on the same server.

as for what someone said about 6-12 months life span...you're thinking CoD. But if you look at Halo/Battlefield those titles last a lot longer...Halo 3 lasted 3 years (and if im not mistaken people still play it now despite Reach's release)....Halo 2 was the one title that kept going on the old XBL servers (big deal was made about this)...so if they can make this game special like Halo/MAG you'll always have an active community...

Dust will live on eve players. I would considering playing it had it not been a PS3 exclusive and given that I could make money for my eve character. I enjoy shooters as much as the next guy, but lets hope CCP manages to integrate it in a good way, so that there's isk to be made for us peasants :)

DUST a fail project? Only time will tell, IMHO its a fail.
The idea itself is fine, but considering game market of today....its gonna be hard to get by.

How many EvE players own PS3? How many will buy PS3 just for DUST (and BR player mostly)?

Is CCP counting on big alliances to somehow motivate people to contribute to fights on planets?
Is PI still a factor in DUST and EvE, and controlling planets control PI production?
Again a good idea, but its gonna be a hassle, why go all the trouble to make and bake a loaf of bread at home and waste few hours, when you can buy one in a second? EvE has bots, bots earn money, who needs PI and your own ground army when you can buy what you want in 4-4.

Console players attention span is low. With new games on shelves almost weekly, CCP needs a goddamn good plan to keep people playing DUST.

Imagining DUST is a console MMO (MMO connected) is stupid, they cant sell that to most of EvE community, let alone console players. What happens when DUST server population drops? Servers shut down, and what about EvE? Does EvE get a emergency boost of patches to remove DUST from equation, or will EvE keep going like DUST never mattered in the first place.

Now this i am sure no one will answer , how much money did CCP spent developing DUST? How much do they expect to gain in first 6-12 months?
Now imagine all that money and man hours invested in DUST were instead put into EvE....what would be the situation in EvE today, maybe hybrids would be fixed along with a lot of balancing issues.