Dust 514 confirmed as PS3 exclusive

By Robert Purchese Published 7 June, 2011

Joins EVE Online on one giant server.

EVE Online developer CCP has announced console game Dust 514 as a PlayStation 3 exclusive.

A closed beta will happen at the end of the year. A full PlayStation Network release will happen in spring 2012.

The Dust 514 "experience" will also be "extended" to NGP - now officially called PlayStation Vita.

"We're taking a console shooter and connecting it directly to a PC MMO," CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson told Sony's E3 press conference audience.

Dust 514 and EVE Online will share one "vibrant universe" - one single-shard super computer server.

Dust 514 will also feature Move support and offer a dedicated PlayStation Home space.

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  • Markitron #1 12 months ago

    Damn

  • PenguinJim #2 12 months ago

    Interesting! It's good to see developers trying new things, even if we sometimes don't like the results.

    So... I'm guessing PS3 people will be running around on planets and space stations pewpewing, and then every so often a PC person will show up in a kilometer-long battle cruiser and just annihilate ALL OF THEM!

  • curryking3 #3 12 months ago

    That looked awesome... I'm assuming it is a huge multiplayer focus, and hopefully a decent singleplayer. If so, awesome. It's like futuristic Battlefield in the Eve universe, and that's no slouch.

    I think Killzone should've aimed for this sort of larger scale. Instead we got the bastard child of who-knows-what with Killzone 3. At least the MP was good.

  • Miths #4 12 months ago

    Looks quite interesting. Or rather based on that bit of footage it looks like a run-of-the-mill futuristic shooter - could be good, could be disappointing - but the connections to EVE should hopefully add an extra layer.
    I played EVE for five or six months right after release and have tried to get back into it several times since, but it has failed to get me hooked again, even though I very much like the concept and the setting. DUST 514 should give me another chance with the EVE universe.

  • RodHull #5 12 months ago

    Looks like a fantastic game so quite a coup for Sony. Been looking forward to this since that Edge preview last year.

  • theonlyix #6 12 months ago

    Well thats it for dust...no buy for me. Too bad, seemed cool. SOD OFF SONY
    Edited by theonlyix at 07/06/11 @ 07:00

  • duckncover #7 12 months ago

    @theonlyix In fairness, this sort of thing has happened on Xbox in the past due to Microsoft's restrictions and not some exclusive deal with Sony. Similar to how Portal 2 had full Steam interoperability on PS3.

  • symmetry #8 12 months ago

    I think I speak for every non PS3 owning Eve fan when I say: "Fuck."
    Edited by symmetry at 07/06/11 @ 07:47

  • pinhead #9 12 months ago

    Shame, I was looking forward to this. Oh well loooks like I will have to miss out.

  • DAN.E.B #10 12 months ago

    Dust isnt a PS3 exclusive my Wii has just as much

  • Murton #11 12 months ago

    Given the way CCP operates with near constant tweaking to the game I suspect it's only a matter of time until Dust goes to PC and the Eve Client to PS3/Vita. Doesn't really make sense to have two games on two different platforms sharing one persistent universe in the long term. Ever since Dust was announced the big selling point has been docking your ship and then actually getting to visit the space station, which isn't exactly practical in this setup, further suggesting that this may be a greater work in progress.

  • FWB #12 12 months ago

    I suspect MS forced CCP's hand on this.

  • DodgyPast #13 12 months ago

    Given that it's going to be free and funded by microtransactions it's hard to see how they'd have got it working with within the limits of live so makes sense that it'll start off on PS3 and maybe go to PC as well.

    CCP devblog that the author of this snippet probably should have read before he copy / pasted:
    http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=b...
    Edited by DodgyPast at 07/06/11 @ 08:54

  • DefendoCroc #14 12 months ago

    Thats a no then ... oh well

  • telboy007 #15 12 months ago

    Fuck you too CCP.

  • Murton #16 12 months ago

    "I suspect MS forced CCP's hand on this."

    Don't know about forcing hands, but they almost certainly pushed CCP away as they have done with many other MMO devs. MMOs live and die by their subscriber base and/or microtransactions and the capture is going to be far smaller if the XBL Gold barrier remains in place.

    The installed base on consoles represents a huge opportunity for growth within the MMO market, but with the 360 this is limited to roughly 20% of the total possible because not everybody is willing to pay for gold, as such MMOs on the console represent a bigger risk than their PC or PS3 counterparts.

  • HiredMan #17 12 months ago

    It was always going to be exclusive to one console platform due to the game being hosted on the tranquility server and the fact that you'll never, ever get PS3 players and 360 players fighting each other.

    That said I'dve preferred if was on 360, but the closed system of Xbox Live probably made the decision easy for CCP. Still, should be fun nuking SDF from orbit hehe. Looking great anyway though, will pick it up when PS3 price drops maybe.

  • Xardan #18 12 months ago

    I really cant see this game being a commercial success now then. Their loss, not mine.

  • bioreit #19 12 months ago

    I'm happy that I have all platforms so can still play this, although slightly concerned that I'll need to get a new friendship base, seeing as my current circle only have 360s and PCs. Which is a shame, as I have a couple of hardcore EVE friends and more 360 friends and we were all looking forward to fighting on behalf of their corp.

    Ho hum.

  • 43n1m4 #20 12 months ago

    I was more than sure that this would come at least for the Xbox360, and preferably as a multiplatform game. This is a surprise. If CCP wanted a big user base for the Dust 514, they went the wrong way. At best, they just said goodbye to around 50% of their potential day 1 buyers.

    I don't care how or why, but somebody surely didn't do enough to get it out on the Xbox360 - and I'd like to know who exactly, instead of all this second-guessing and conjectures, we are witnessing right now.
    Edited by 43n1m4 at 07/06/11 @ 18:57

  • Jammy357 #21 12 months ago

    As a loyal Eve player and equally loyal XBox owner I cant get over what a kick in the teeth this is. Ive been raving about this game to all my mates for eons now. Im going to cry into my pillow tonight, bide my time and plan carefully until spring 2012, then Im going to war against PS3 players at the earliest opportunity.Who's with me?

  • ircaddicts #22 12 months ago

    yet another epic fail from ccp. If they keep this up they will be dead soon. So lets hope they do