I actually don't mind either a PC port or a PS4 port.

Moving the goal post, there. Console games generally aren't going for long-term persistence year-long investments into character progression and the like. Even Destiny didn't go in with the intent to last forever with constant updates and expansions, they're at least realistic in the medium they made the game for.

Dust 514? Project Legion? Same philosophy as Eve Online. Online and running as long as they can afford to do it and continually develop for it.

If you can find me one other console game that intended to run indefinitely in this same manner, with or without the consideration that their chosen medium (console) would eventually become outdated and replaced by something better, then we can say "by that logic the console industry should shut down and everything should be on PC".

Apples to Airplanes, yo.

EDIT: The primary difference here is that on PC, CCP doesn't have to consult with Sony for every update or optimize for the use of outdated consoles; they can just look at what the majority of their PC clients are using and model the game - freely, I might add - to that standard. Just like they've done with Eve Online.

Eve Online twelve years ago: http://izlin.free.fr/eve/ships/megathron.jpg
Eve Online today: http://images.gameskinny.com/gameskinny/89485ebe5fa5b9399d9be58c9f03990b.jpg

Now imagine having to basically rebuild the entire game every-time a new console comes out with a new architecture instead of just updating the engine through the game launcher.

Haven't read the entire thread and probably commented proPS4 already, I usually do with threads like this.

Quick note though about PC vs PS4-

The PS4 is a standardized platform whose hardware mostly is identical between different users. This means players play amongst themselves with few to no hardware-based advantages . That newest overclocked whatever that comes to market every 3 weeks has NO bearing on the competition that occurs within PS4s and their network of players.

I personally got OUT of PC gaming years ago because the whole chasing the newest doodad to hit the PC market just to stay competitive at the same level got old, quick. I cannot describe how...liberating it was to fire up my first PS2 or my Xbox, open a game with multiplayer and then play without glaring imbalances from different hardware OR w/e the FOTW hax that were out being all over those games. Win, lose or draw the games that were played were played on skill and skill alone as much as reasonably possible.

This something that cannot be ignored: PS2, BF4, BF3, CoD etc do NOT share a fundamental concept with DUST and that is the concept of ownership. We spend weeks or months progressing, earning and spending SP and ISK to outfit ourselves and finally PC for districts. BF et al. are PvP yes, but the matches are just for EoM stats and once the battle is over it doesn't what happened there. New Eden is not like this, outside of pubs, who wins and who loses matters overall because it affects that possession element. There will be nothing worse in the world of gaming than to have a mission-critical PC match (for example) go to **** because (since its on PC) players are piping in those ddos' and all their scripthax from their uber-modded PCs.

Seriously, if the price of stability and worthwhile gaming is just $400 , done and done. Game Over.