Use cases are influenced by available infrastructure. XBox and PS where different by design, now with hardware converging the markets will have to be kept apart artificially, which will be harder.

So where do you think steamboxes will fit into this... steam is available on PC's, and valve will be releasing a console based on it, which people will plug to his livingroom TV and controlling it from the sofa, thats convergence right there.

The Unreal engine is one of the most easily hacked pieces of ancient software on the web.

CCP would kill D514 if they ported it to PC.

Mr Epeen

The hardware is converging, not the maket.

Looking at it from another point of view, will sony even be able to stop people running PS4 games on PCs ?

I guess they will have some sort of deliberately incompatible hardware check, but with virtualization these days, who knows.

The market will decide, the CEO's will have to accept it or gtfo.

I may be pessimistic, but I don't think we should be worrying whether Dust is coming to PC or not. All we should be worrying about is how much of a flop Dust is going to be, and whether the fallout from it will be bigger or smaller than Incarna's. This was a general sentiment when the game was announced, and it looks rather accurate now. I mean, the game has been in open beta for how long now? And do you see a lot of coverage on gaming sites? The game is niche in a niche, at best.

Where did you get that idea.

Given that CCP is claiming to have ideas to make dust grow for the next decade, it's almost impossible not to see dust on PS4. And as stated before, PS4 means technically close to PCs.

I would be very surprised that they don't enable dust on PC, but they will NEVER admit it until their contract with sony expires.

Sig, and also seeing as the game is free anyway, CCP could just port it on to the PS4

Prove it.

The funny thing is, having Dust on both accomplishes the attracting a different community thing just the same, and those who are able to have a PS3 in the same room as their computer will pretty much give themselves orbital strikes anyways, so really, your sig explanation is ultimately meaningless.

Having DUST on PC would mean EVE players without PS3s would play it, cannibalising their own playerbase (Making my sig not completely meaningless) plus if I had my PS3 in the same room I still wouldn't just leave my ship, with its taste pod center unattended in low/null, even if it was for 1 minute.

People can't play multiple games? In fact, many EVE players are used to running multiple clients. What's the difference between that and running one more client with a different game?

Because how many people play say Battlefield 3 and a Total War game at the same time? People run multiple clients on EVE, but I bet a lot of them have 1 or 2 mininig or AFK mission running while another does something that needs their attention. And before people say "But people PvP with multiple accounts" most of them are just Falcon, booster or scouting alts which only need a little bit of attention. Eg: Need boosts? Jump your loki into the system then cloak it and go back to your other character.

From the fact that the Xbawks720 and PS4 are both running perfectly standard PC hardware.

I dont know if CCP have admitted it, or can see it yet, but they will end up releasing Dust514 for PC, it just makes too much sense.

The new PS4 has been announced to be based on x86 architecture, so any games that run on PS4 should be easy to port to PC, e.g. the Unreal engine it uses already runs on PC. So there really wont be an technical barriers, and there is a ready made market of EVE players without PS4 boxes that would be easy customers to gain.

The only think i can think of that will stop them is agreements signed with Sony for exclusivity, but even they would most likely have an expiry date.

EDIT: also the reason stated by CCP for not releasign to PC is that they want to target a different market, but wit hthe PS4 and PC hardware converging, other software will also, so their reason will disappear.