EVE General Discussion

More people have smart phones, therefore more people are playing games on their smart phones. Ergo, console gaming must be dying, right?

I've been saying this for years.

Consoles originally hit the scene because computers were ridiculously expensive. As it becomes cheaper to own a good computer, consoles have less reason to exist.

What coffin?

Of course dust dies when it gets touched by a wet cloth it turns into mud

No. It has been stated before.

CCP is aware there is a PS4 on the horizon.

Many people I spoke with at Fanfest 2012 indicated Dust will continue to work on the Next Playstation System after the PS3 is gone.

That is the beauty of a Free to play Downloaded from PSN Game. Not Tied to a Disk, or specific Hardware.

CCP is working With SONY on DUST514, so there are likely in the loop on what the new hardware is going to look like and ensure future compatability.

EVE FOREVER!!!

There just publishers wanting attention, there targeting nervous console gamers and they don't know anything and could probably not care less, why should you? You and i should know the video game industry would only be destroyed in a total economic collapse.

I see kids walking around with tablets, like mindless zombies hehe. Rather soon the tablets will vid out to the HD tv. I don't think there will be a PS5. PS4 will probably be the last and will hardly see a successful run later on. IMO the US is now locked into a coming recession (did the last one end?) and will probably impact world markets, so parents and adults are going to mostly go for the cheaper tabs compared to consoles and where you can get most games for cheap or free.

Even the big AAA publishers have been embracing the tab, such as (for android:) EA, Rockstar, Disney, Gameloft (former ubisoft employees), Square Enix, Marvel games etc etc. and this list is growing especially as NVIDIA and Intel improve chips which are really nice right now at this point. Doubt apple will keep up to them while big chunky consoles will be dated as well.

Although... the Sony contract is for a year, so nothing stopping CCP from porting DUST after that.

Yes I go to CNN for all my insights into sociotechnological trends

Consoles were made for that kind of people who know only how to insert the cartridge/disc and press play. Otherwise consoles would've had keyboards since they are 1 of the cheapest components. And the manufacturers wanted to protect themselves against lawsuits like "OMG I so a kibord and had hart atak from it... I kant evan **** meny kis are der, bicos dey not teech us such big numbas in skull. GIMME MILJON DOLLAZ".

Only nail in Dust's coffin, is that it's a clunky shooter ( hearsay, I haven't tried it myself ).

That's one thing a shooter on a console can't be if it wants people to keep playing. Which you want when you do a micro-transaction game.

But hey, it's free. It will have a following, might be 80% made up of EVE players who own a PS3, but still.