that's only a 5% loss, in 3 days.. you would not dump for 5%, now if the trend continues, then yea. But dust really has not suffered a huge drop in peark form the announcement. This means, that like eve, ppl on the forums raging are the minority. Either other dustbunnies don't care, don't know, or just want to play

Is this an "EVE is dying" thread?

Although on a bit more serious note - DUST has been on its way out for a while now bcos let's face it - it's on a dying platform. While Sony keeps milking it for a little while more the writing is clearly on the wall for PS3.

Well - as far as I understand it it will be a while before Legion will come out. So the decision, in my opinion, is only effective few years down the road. They basically just announced that they will do a PC version somewhere 2016, at best. Probably around the same time as PS4 version will come out (as if you are already developing for PC then it should be feasible to port it also to PS4) or dunno, perhaps they will just switch only the DUST514 part over to PS4. I would not hold my breath about PS3 still "going strong" few years down the road. As it stands today even a ~35 EUR computer-on-a-stick has more RAM than PS3. Hell, you can buy a phone that has more RAM than PS3 for a quarter of price of one. By 2016 I would expect ~300 EUR tablets to have about 8x more RAM and about equal graphics processing power to PS3. This platform is just old.

TBH as far as ports go at this point I would not be surprised to see an core EVE version for PS4 ;) Hell, all it would probably take would be a a keyboard and mouse on one and recompile + 3 months of QA. As as it stands today EVE is very capable of running at 1080p @ 60 Hz if you have a ~7850 equivalent GFX card and 8 GB of memory. And they seem to be one of of the launch titles for the Sony Morpheous VR headset with their Valkyrie on PS4 (and also releasing it for PC Occulus also "exclusively (on PC)).

In my opinion with the changing hardware landscape consoles are losing their edge. Ofc I'm not silly enough to come out with claims like "consoles are dying" as it would be as silly as to claim that for the PC, however, that out of the way, It is clear that the consoles are losing their hardware edge they used to have past few generations. I mean past few generations traditionally consoles have been offering better graphics than equally priced PC's. This is no longer the case. You can today assemble the PC for the same price as the console which will beat it. That is including the "optimizations" for the console. For the sake of completeness link as well for the relevant study: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-the-next-gen-digital-foundry-pc

Same goes for PS3 btw. About 2 years ago I assembled a PC for 225 EUR that was capable of beating the console. Sure, the difference was not overly dramatic but the fact that one would be able to assemble a PC that plays better for such a low price already 2 years ago is a clear indication of how old the previous gen consoles managed to get before the console manufacturers got the next gen in.

What is still going for the consoles, in theory, is simplicity. Your "average" console gamer has no interest in assembling his own PC as doing so sensibly on such a tight budget takes certain amount of interest and background research. It is easy to beat the console by just throwing a pile of money at hardware, but on equal hardware budget some compromises must be done. There is also assumption that consoles are "easier" to operate by being plug and play although I would say it is no longer quite that straightforward. Digital distribution is quite widespread already on consoles so in that regard it is no different than PC as you also need to do installs or register or log in, etc even if you bought the physical disk. But the assumption seems to be still there among layman's so this gives consoles a certain edge.

So Consoles, in general, are not dying, but they are losing their edge and probably also some ground. In particular Wii is in trouble as for very casual gaming tablets / mobiles are already strong enough and cheap enough to compete with it. It will take a while for that to happen for the more traditional consoles like PS4. But there is a reason why Sony and MS are focusing more on "other services" than just pure gaming. I would say that current gen consoles are no longer all that focused on gaming as they used to be in the past some gens.

I haven't. To what monitor/TV do these people connect their consoles? Is the idea here that transporting a power-strip, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and case is substantially more difficult that transporting a power-strip, monitor, input, and console?

Or is it just that the destination is unlikely to have enough convenient desk space as opposed to couch space?

Edge wise - it is always hard to predict - especially the future So we'll see.