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Posted - 2013.11.20 16:10:00 -
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Mobius Wyvern wrote:Cat Merc wrote:On the PS3, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of games.
Out of all of those games, do you really expect people to see Dust 514 with no adverts?
Now, use your brain for this one, what happens with a new console, with only 5-10 games?
People get bored from those and then what?
Oh wait, look at that, a free to play shooter on the PS4...
I am getting kind of bored from Killzone Shadow Fall and Blacklight, let me see this...
Hmm... This game sounds interesting...
And there you have it, a new Dust 514 player.
Also, PS4 sold a million units on day one, Dust at best has 30k active players that login daily.
Now would be the perfect time to release Dust 514 on the PS4, where exposure would be the highest.
Note:
No, I'm not pushing for a PS4 version, I'm just debunking the idea that because there are 80 million PS3's the game will do here better than on the PS4. But do we want exposure for a game that still has many persisting issues?
^ Aha. Only a few post before an intrepid merc makes the core observation. +1 Mobius.
I won't belabor the consequent chain of logic that follows this observation, it should be obvious and ends with the conclusion that the PS3 is the best place for DUST to be right now.
As far as speculation as to the size of the potential market availiable to free-to-play PS3 games, we've got past experience to look at with the PS2. By any measure, we will not be starved for potential players on PS3 because it is definitely not the bottleneck for server population, and is at best only a very minor factor re: player retention.
The wounds from our first release are still angry pink and scabbed over. A second premature release will only serve to rip open those scabs and drive the blades in a second time, and DUST will go from being an over-earnest wounded young warrior to a global laughing stock. Let's nor hand our enemies our beating hearts - make them work for it.
I support SP rollover.
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Posted - 2013.11.21 00:43:00 -
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Killar-12 wrote:Vell0cet wrote:CCP knew it was a bullshit line when they said the "80 million PS3" line, but the reality is that launching DUST on the PS4 in its current state would be an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. Once we have the missing suits/vehicles/weapons being used and balanced with a reasonable TTK, the connections to EVE mentioned at Vegas (FW 2.0, PC 2.0, P2P market), and a solid NPE, I think it will be time for CCP to push hard at getting DUST onto the PS4 with the Unreal 4 engine (maybe by fanfest 2015). It should be marketed as a major relaunch, and hopefully we'll get a new set of reviews, and some marketing dollars behind it. This^^
^^This
I support SP rollover.
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