EVE Online dev CCP has explained that its latest FPS/RTS MMO project, DUST 514 (set in EVE’s game world), will remain a PS3 exclusive for the moment because an Xbox version would be “tricky”.
“Most of DUST is running on our own technology, it’s running on our own super-computer, on Tranquillity,” producer Tomas Farrer tells RPS. “And Sony is a lot more… open, shall we say, to allowing you to do those things. It may seem silly, but on Xbox Live your identity is your Xbox Live identity. In the EVE universe, having people not know who you are is quite important.”
Well, that seems sensible enough.
“I don’t think it’s about saying we ‘couldn’t’ do it. I think some of the challenges we’d meet would be tricky,” he adds. “But then also as a developer you’ve got to weigh the balance. It’s nice to work on one platform rather than two, because it means you don’t have to make any awkward compromises, technically. Also you get the benefit of a closer relationship with that platform.”
The game was originally announced back in 2009 already, but the project’s PS3 exclusivity was confirmed only yesterday at E3.
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