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    actually...from a cold boot, I can get into FFXI faster on my dinosaur of a PC than I can get into Borderlands2 on my new PS3 from a cold boot.

    It all depends on how you are set up I guess. But in general, PC's offer way more flexibility than a console. Games are developed on a PC/MAC, then loaded on the console for testing. Why? Because they have considerably more resources under the hood. Also, if a game requires more resources to run as intended, you simply upgrade the PC if needed---can't necessarily do that with a console.

    No matter how you slice it, the PC is generally a better platform in the long run if you are dealing with games that are meant to evolve and grow over time (and thus potentially demanding more resources one day).
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    Quote Originally Posted by RAIST View Post
    actually...from a cold boot, I can get into FFXI faster on my dinosaur of a PC than I can get into Borderlands2 on my new PS3 from a cold boot.

    It all depends on how you are set up I guess. But in general, PC's offer way more flexibility than a console. Games are developed on a PC/MAC, then loaded on the console for testing. Why? Because they have considerably more resources under the hood. Also, if a game requires more resources to run as intended, you simply upgrade the PC if needed---can't necessarily do that with a console.

    No matter how you slice it, the PC is generally a better platform in the long run if you are dealing with games that are meant to evolve and grow over time (and thus potentially demanding more resources one day).
    While I can see your point I think we're all forgetting a critical part here. This game is nearly 10 years old. It can practically be run on a toaster these days as far as PC is concerned. The PS4 is orders of magnitude stronger than even the bare minimum requirements to run the game. It'll be a cold day in a certain place before this game ever gets close to using 8 gigs to run in main memory.

    The only things that would really stop this game from being on the PS4 is recompiling the game for the PS4's custom firmware. So really it boils down to the price recompiling and recoding to make it work on the PS4 versus potential increase in customer base, and how many people would actually buy into a 10 year old MMO such as this. Other than that there is really no drawback to having this game on the PS4 from a logical standpoint.
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