So are consoles holding back this game?

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PS3 support should be canceled by 4.0, not earlier though.

That's what I have been saying. I see no problem in discontinuing future support for PS3 as of FFXIV 4.0. Although I do think that unless the number of PS3 players has dropped to a very small number by then, they are likely to keep the FFXIV 2.X and 3.X content available for PS3 until the 5.0 Expansion (assuming and hoping we get that far). Of course by then we should be looking PS5 square in the eye, so I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.