I'll give my opinion, and list the pro's and cons of each.

I've been leaning towards consoles, due to the fact that I selfishly enjoy my couch and big TV more than a computer chair, but obviously there's more to consider. What's better for the game?

Let's try to look at this objectively and without bias.




My thoughts are that the console audience is separate from the PC audience, meaning a chance to reap a player base completely separate from what already plays EVE and Dust. My concern with playing on PC is that most of the player base would come from current EVE and Dust players. There are tons of free to play shooters, space sims, sandbox games, and a wealth of other options on steam. How would Dust/Legion stand out amongst so much competition?

There would certainly be a lot less competition on the consoles. There really aren't a lot of options for console owners right now. Yes E3 had some big announcements, but lets be honest: When is the last time any E3 buzz lived up to the hype? Any of these games could be complete flops.

Let's also take into account the RL economy. People are poor these days, and games are only getting more expensive, take into account $60 price tags (and rising), season passes, mandatory DLC for online, and average 1 year shelf life of console shooters. Dust could slip right under the radar and undercut all these games, a lot of players are fed up with the predatory monitization of current developers like EA and Activision.

It's not a leap to say Dust is the best bang-per-buck option on shooters. 3 years of continuously improving game play and some players haven't paid a cent!



Let's start with the obvious advantage: Hardware. In the long run, a port would look much better on PC. How big of a factor is this? Personally I'm satisfied with the graphics of Dust now, so any improvement would be more than enough for me, but do most people agree?

The real question to me is which platform would garner the largest player base? I actually haven't been able to find a straight breakdown of how many players there are per platform. If anyone can find reliable links to this kind of info please post it and I'll update this section

PS- PLAYSTATION NETWORK PSN Wiki page. Claims 65 million active accounts as of 2015.
XB- XBOX LIVE XBL Wiki page. Claims 48 million accounts in 2014
PC- Steam player count Here is current peak player counts broken down by game on steam.

Battlefield 4 counts Here is a current breakdown of BF4 players on PS3, PS4, XB360, XB1, and PC. PC is the second smallest player base, only beating the XBOX 360 by a narrow margin.

What's not mentioned here is trend information. Are these numbers holding, growing, shrinking? If this info has been tracked I can't find it. If anyone has a reliable link to some more info on this I'll gladly update this post.

If these stats are at all indicative then consoles offer by far the largest community, making it the best choice in my opinion.



If I could have my way, I would take CCP's original plan. Cross platform play between XB and PS.

If this were to happen the buzz would be insane. Gamers would flock to this.

The plan fell through though due to legal/technical issues, but does that mean it can never work? We're in a different time and on different hardware now.



Present your opinions!

Most ps4 owners already had a ps4. It's hard to imagine that same crowd who got stomped into quitting jumping back into the same game as the ps4.

Citing cheaters on PC is laughable. People with the urge to cheat will do so.

I point you at any CFW (custom firmware) site as the reason where people openly discuss and distribute tools to let them cheat furiously in competitive PvP games.

CCP has better tools for murdering cheaters on the PC than I imagine they have on consoles. The rampant cheating, botting, and other modifications has been something they have gotten insanely good at compared to when they started.

The other reason I think PC is a more likely start point is that if CCP wants to link DUST to EVE properly, developing a link for PC is easier to both build then adapt to the PS4 than the reverse.

PC is generic architecture, no matter how much microsoft wishes you to believe otherwise. X86 represents a specific custom firmware. PC is easier to adapt FROM and I think is more likely to gain EVE dev support and time allotment after core issues get unscrewed.

Do I think one or the other should be first? I have no opinion. I'm comfortable either way.

If a decision is to be made, it means the decision was already made and locked in stone.


There is nothing player debate will change. Due to the timing of the ps3 going down slowly ccp would habe already had to start the process to beat that timeline. It's not as simple as "flip a switch, instant game"

The main benefit of PC over console is mouse and keyboard. MKB is vastly superior for FPS games.

Citing cheaters on PC is laughable. People with the urge to cheat will do so.

I'll give my opinion, and list the pro's and cons of each.

I've been leaning towards consoles, due to the fact that I selfishly enjoy my couch and big TV more than a computer chair, but obviously there's more to consider. What's better for the game?

Let's try to look at this objectively and without bias.




My thoughts are that the console audience is separate from the PC audience, meaning a chance to reap a player base completely separate from what already plays EVE and Dust. My concern with playing on PC is that most of the player base would come from current EVE and Dust players. There are tons of free to play shooters, space sims, sandbox games, and a wealth of other options on steam. How would Dust/Legion stand out amongst so much competition?

There would certainly be a lot less competition on the consoles. There really aren't a lot of options for console owners right now. Yes E3 had some big announcements, but lets be honest: When is the last time any E3 buzz lived up to the hype? Any of these games could be complete flops.

Let's also take into account the RL economy. People are poor these days, and games are only getting more expensive, take into account $60 price tags (and rising), season passes, mandatory DLC for online, and average 1 year shelf life of console shooters. Dust could slip right under the radar and undercut all these games, a lot of players are fed up with the predatory monitization of current developers like EA and Activision.

It's not a leap to say Dust is the best bang-per-buck option on shooters. 3 years of continuously improving game play and some players haven't paid a cent!



Let's start with the obvious advantage: Hardware. In the long run, a port would look much better on PC. How big of a factor is this? Personally I'm satisfied with the graphics of Dust now, so any improvement would be more than enough for me, but do most people agree?

The real question to me is which platform would garner the largest player base? I actually haven't been able to find a straight breakdown of how many players there are per platform. If anyone can find reliable links to this kind of info please post it and I'll update this section

PS- PLAYSTATION NETWORK PSN Wiki page. Claims 65 million active accounts as of 2015.
XB- XBOX LIVE XBL Wiki page. Claims 48 million accounts in 2014
PC- Steam player count Here is current peak player counts broken down by game on steam.

Battlefield 4 counts Here is a current breakdown of BF4 players on PS3, PS4, XB360, XB1, and PC. PC is the second smallest player base, only beating the XBOX 360 by a narrow margin.

What's not mentioned here is trend information. Are these numbers holding, growing, shrinking? If this info has been tracked I can't find it. If anyone has a reliable link to some more info on this I'll gladly update this post.

If these stats are at all indicative then consoles offer by far the largest community, making it the best choice in my opinion.



If I could have my way, I would take CCP's original plan. Cross platform play between XB and PS.

If this were to happen the buzz would be insane. Gamers would flock to this.

The plan fell through though due to legal/technical issues, but does that mean it can never work? We're in a different time and on different hardware now.



Present your opinions!

PS4, because PC physic's are lame'o, i don't want to clean dirty windows nor catch viruses from unsafe computering, or playing against hacked up hero machines.

PS4, because of valkere and morpheus.

and to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the pc masturbatinrace.

Benefits from port to PC:
* Easier to maintain and upgrade for CCP
* Also accessible for console gamers with steam machines.
* Player base from PC and console gamers can access game.


I can really see no drawback of PC port due to fact that you can play it with steam machine with controller at tv like a normal console.

CCP is very good in monitoring eve online and cheaters are banned. Same will happen for dust cheaters.

Seems to be a win win situation for me.

Here a picture of the steam machine:
http://store.steampowered.com/universe/machines

Why not both console (ps4) and pc?
Development can be done and tested on PC, then distributed to PC & console once kinks are ironed out.
Valkyrie is being done for both PC and consoles so I don't see how both options aren't the answer.