The End of an Era: PS3 officially discontinued today?

[Kosmos992k]

Unless PS3 hardware sales have fallen through the floor, I'd still anticipate a 10 year life at retail in major markets. An announcement in a relatively small national market in NZ is not a global discontinuation/

[LeeraSorlan]

Why? Nothing about the PS4 should be holding the PC version back.

Probably because without the ps3, square will have no excuse as to why somethings cut out or limited and when they continue to limit things after the ps3s death, PS4 HOLDN US BACK.

Not my thoughts, just what id imagine to come out of the ps3 drop as people complain about everything

[Nomad-phx]

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

Yes I know that (ff is the only AAA game I play on ps4 for this reason lol) I just don't think many other ps3 owners would buy a ps4 just to keep playing ff14 when the inevitable support drop comes.

[Derio]

Just waiting on 5.0 for the confirmation.

[sirius89]

Finally. Was about time that last gen gets discontinued, should have happened 2 years ago. Here's to no more compromised video games. Also now they can do much more stuff in XIV that the PS3 was too weak for, for example a complete open world without loading screens between zones or more physics based stuff.

[Twilite]

Uhm.. you're gonna always have loading screens.

[Gilraen]

So, show of hands, who all here lives in New Zealand? I ask cause that seems to be the only affected country by this news.

[BreathlessTao]

when they, in 2010, released FFXIV on a then 4 year old console

1.0 never saw a PS3 release. It was only available on PC.

[Lexia]

I would say Sony going to support the PS3 for least another year.

[Colorful]

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.

No, it won't. The consoles will be restricting new games there's no doubt about it, but FFXIV? Not a chance. Do you honestly believe that the FFXIV developers are going to spend millions into improving the engine, implement high quality assets, proper hair physics utilizing TressFX/HairWorks, enough to push upcoming AMD and Nvidia 16nm cards to the max? No, the game barely strains out my current GPU and uses only 1-1.5 VRAM, let alone require high speed memory like HBM. Could they do it? Yes. Will they? No. You said if developer's resources weren't a real constraint, but the fact is that they are and there's not ifs or buts about it.

Uhm.. you're gonna always have loading screens.

Yeah, because the game was made with PS3 in mind. A horribly outdated console.