My thoughts about PS4 and project morpheus

[Lorenzo]

Why Elite D should be ported to PS4?
Well for many reasons PS4 sales are getting bigger and bigger and when Morpheus hit the market there will be one or two good games build for VR the rest will most likely be crap. If Frontier decide to port it to PS4 the only competition they will have will be eve valkyrie.
The game can run even on a low end PC's witch make the PS4 hardware more then enough to run ED.
I think there is a gold mine just to be collected and it would be a mistake for Frontier not to take this advantage.

 

[Yaffle]

There is a locked thread on this here - http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5197 be warned it's quite contentious, and gets a bit fractious in there.

 

[Lorenzo]

There is a locked thread on this here - http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5197 be warned it's quite contentious, and gets a bit fractious in there.

Am talking about the benefits Frontier might gain from that market.

 

[Clausum]

I'll bet you my sidewinder that Elite will come out for the PS4 before Star Citizen is available to play as a Beta.

 

[Crystles]

Am talking about the benefits Frontier might gain from that market.

The profits wouldnt justify the extra overhead created by having multiple platforms for ED.

Sure it sounds great on paper. Release on console -> expand player base -> increase profits! Badass right? Wrong.

The problem is technical in nature. Unless ED is basically done developing, it would exponentially increase a factor called "technical overhead", which essentially is a measure of complexity in a program or application. Increase this, and the work to solve even relatively simple bugs can become an enormous undertaking, and new features could become an insurmountable task after all the spaghetti coding it took to make it work.

ED is better geared for it than Star Citizen by an order of magnitude, at least ED was built all (or mostly) in house so the devs at least have a chance to know whats in their own code (pro tip: even the best devs can forget half of what they wrote, and how they wrote it even a day later, programming is EXTREMELY mentally draining. Trying to figure out some one ELSES code is something they reserve in a special place in dev hell)

The end result is thats more and more work that gets taken away from developing ED as a whole.

Games that are done developing, or dont intend to develop much further (if at all) are the ones that are generally ported. Theres a reason you dont see many games that progress and update regularly for multiple systems. Its overwhelmingly tasking, or they usually end up sacrificing one platform and alienating an entire market of gamers.

Not saying its a bad idea (actually I am) but I'd rather see ED fully realized on PC, where it belongs. When you put something on a console, you immediately shrink its potential to whatever said console can handle, or you "sacrifice" a few things on the console version specifically and give a bad impression of the game, and make a lot of ****** off console gamers.