The End of an Era: PS3 officially discontinued today?

[Colorful]

Of course, the moment that the support is dropped for the PS3, watch all the pitchforks turn toward PS4 players.

Even someone like me who's pro-PC and has a high end PC isn't stupid enough to believe that the PS4 is holding the game back.

[Nomad-phx]

It's only new Zealand though (so far) the real question is when will individual game companies stop supporting ps3 online servers. Ps3 may have its hardware limits but really what will happen (on ff14 at least) is a large drop in playerbase. We're already experiencing population lows on many servers and giving ps3 the axe will only add to that as most people with ps3 don't want a monthly PS plus subscription just to play online. Hopefully it's handled in a way where its not "say goodbye to all ps3 users after this maintenance"

[Colorful]

It's only new Zealand though (so far) the real question is when will individual game companies stop supporting ps3 online servers. Ps3 may have its hardware limits but really what will happen (on ff14 at least) is a large drop in playerbase. We're already experiencing population lows on many servers and giving ps3 the axe will only add to that as most people with ps3 don't want a monthly PS plus subscription just to play online. Hopefully it's handled in a way where its not "say goodbye to all ps3 users after this maintenance"

You don't need to pay PS+ to play FFXIV on the PS4.

[Adire]

PS3 discontinued today, PS4 tomorrow, PC never.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

PS3 discontinued today, PS4 tomorrow, PC never.

How's that windows 3.1 running the game?

or your Pentium 2?

Still have any 133MHz RAM installed?

[Twilite]

Of course, the moment that the support is dropped for the PS3, watch all the pitchforks turn toward PS4 players.

Yall are fine.

[Ashkendor]

How's that windows 3.1 running the game?

or your Pentium 2?

Still have any 133MHz RAM installed?

You're mixing up "PC's" with "paperweights" there.

[JayCommon]

At the time FFXIV was released, PS4 wasn't even available to buy yet.

FTFY.

Now I'll popcorn while this thread devolves into Console vs PC. And instigate even more vitriol....

How's that windows 3.1 running the game?

or your Pentium 2?

Still have any 133MHz RAM installed?

..............................

LOL

[Silverbane]

Even someone like me who's pro-PC and has a high end PC isn't stupid enough to believe that the PS4 is holding the game back.

Next year it would be, if developer resources weren't the real constraint. There's some pretty awesome upgrades coming to PC's next year: PCIe or DDR4 hosted XPoint-based SSDs, new GPU chips from NVidia, new Broadwell-E CPUs from Intel. I've put off upgrading as a result, and now plan to update both my wife's and my own gaming systems next year, including going to UHD monitors with Gsync (or the equivalent).

It will be glorious.

[abzoluut]

sad decision, one would think..

Unfortunately we still play a game which supports a 9 year old (my god!) console.

(on phone, for some reason I posted the first part :|)