Quote Originally Posted by Laraul View Post
The 360 version is a rapid port from the Windows version. It's not run on anything that's being emulated.

Take a look at all the remastered ports of PS2 games for the PS3 or 360. The God of War collection, Shadow of the Colossus, MGS 2 and 3. These all are games where a large amount of effort and work went into "improving the graphics" and other aspects of each game. They don't look anymore radically improved than the 360/PC versions of FFXI over the PS2 ones. All dropping the PS2 version would do is loose players.
They do, actually. 4x AA, progressive scan instead of interlacing, and stable 60 fps add up to a significant improvement over how the games ran on the PS2. Additionally, this is done with hardware that is significantly weaker than current PCs, especially in the GPU department.

I also think you greatly exaggerate the amount of work that making a HD port of a PS2 game takes.