The End of an Era: PS3 officially discontinued today?

[Colorful]

Drop PS3 support today.
Bring back open robes and armored tails.

Don't forget about the butts.

[DragonHunterG]

i think the PS3 version was more like a promised fulfilled that Square made good on. i remember it being pushed back numerous times and for it to finally come out was pretty incredible. so, good on you Square, you did make it happen, and nobody will think worse if you end support anytime soon.

[Lexia]

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Didn't Sony only discontinue PS2 a year or two ago in Japan?

The PS2 discontinued January 2013.

[hagare]

Don't forget about the butts.

And breasts and cleavage.
In fact, make that priority one SE!

[Jim_Berry]

It has been said since day 1 that the PS3 support will be dropped at some point, probably by 4.0, or 5.0 being the furthest point in time when we say bye-bye.

Yeah, I remember reading that a long time ago. Kinda unfortunate since the PS3 community helped this game shine, as many of them also bought the game on PS3 to have it on both systems.

*EDIT*
Kinda suck, though, because this is following FFXI's footsteps; the game is being discontinued on PS2 and Xbox 360 in March 2016 (no longer get access to connect).

[Jim_Berry]

At the time FFXIV was released, not everyone could afford a PS4 yet.

But...the game came out before the PS4 console was released. Maybe you meant "not everyone has a gaming pc"?

[Jim_Berry]

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.

Are you only saying that because of FFXIV? With previous systems, no one really cared that PS2 was still going strong when PS3 released. Same with Nintendo's NES and SNES, for example.

[Jim_Berry]

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.



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 A horribly outdated console.

I don't think is has nothing to do with PS3 in mind. Some games load while you are playing.

[Canadane]

Drop PS3 support today.
Bring back open robes and armored tails.

And here I thought I was alone in my crusade for tail armour coming back!

Don't forget about the butts.

I can never forget about the butts...