Consoles are holding this game back (graphically)

[raymon]

PS3 can't hold Add-ons, increased inventory space, huge maps, more NPCs on screen etc... This kind of stuff affects PS4 and PC because every player should have the same possibilities.
PS3 is holding back this game. I'm glad 3.0 will be the last expansion for that system, so FFXIV can get more improvements.

i agree with everything with most of this, but not the inventory space. i recall being told inventory was a server thing, being that all out stuff is saved on their server. being that its a server thing i don't see the PS3 holding it back

[ruskie]

i agree with everything with most of this, but not the inventory space. i recall being told inventory was a server thing, being that all out stuff is saved on their server. being that its a server thing i don't see the PS3 holding it back

The inventory - the live intventory on the character gets synced to server every 15s or so. That's a lot of traffic. But problem is that people don't differentiate between live inventory and retainer inventory - they are two separate things and handled differently.