When is the PS3 Version going to get cancelled?

[Kosmos992k]

PS3 is barely playable as it is, more content isn't going to help. PS3 FFXIV is already past due.

No offense, but you are coming across like a troll here. PS3 plays all ARR content well enough for players to have completed the Final Coil on PS3. I don't remember there being any unfinished or glitchy elements from when I played on PS3, and so I can only conclude that you are trolling since reality conflicts with your assertions.

PS3 support will more than likely end with Heavensward, that is, all content up to the 4,0 Expansion will be available on PS3, unless SE elects to go back and re-work some of those zones. I think that is highly unlikely, and so for the foreseeable future PS3 players will be able to play FFXIV 2.0-3.x, regardless of the ravings of anti-PS3 rants.

Wait... by this do you mean to say that there were devs who didn't jump ship from the PS Vita?

And do we want to know why they did? Here you go: 32GB PlayStation Vita Memory Card

As someone said earlier of the anti-PS3 nonsense, you are adopting a very western centric view. There are in fact plenty of games on Vita for other regions, Japan/Asia in particular. Which works out very well for gamers who want their JRPG and other genre typical of Japanese gaming.

The cost of a 32GB memory card is a one off investment that pays dividends. When people routinely throw away $600 on the latest iPhone that can't even take a memory card of any kind, it's pretty silly to complain about the cost of Vita.

However, The "kick a man when he's down" mentality of western gamers and journalists had every Sony product regardless of division being trashed across the board in the US and US dominated regions thanks to past issues in an unrelated business division.

If you soberly analyze Vita, it's a very good mobile gaming platform, and quite well priced compared to $600 smartphones. I guess that's why people only play free to play games on phones, but buy real games on Vita. Vita is a good product, that was rather unfortunately pronounced dead on arrival, by a gleefully vindictive gaming media and anti-Sony community in the West. That is it's biggest problem.

[Atoli]

It should be cut off most everyone has a playstation 4 by now.

It will probably be another 4-5 years before I buy a PS4, after all, I only bought the PS3 about a year ago

And while I am severely behind on the console lifespan thing, I also know that many people, even though they might get a new console faster than me, have not moved on to the PS4 yet.
And that's talking about people in the West; as many others have stated already, JP audiences are usually even more reluctant to switch to a new console.

That being said, I wish PS3 was dropped rather tomorrow than the day after, because PS3 is the sole reason we can't have nice things
PS3 limitations, the everyday argument from our lovely dev team why NOTHING can be implemented the way we'd wish it to be.

[Andrea]

This person created an account called "Sonytriple" is talking about ps3 being barely playable and people are responding to him as if he isn't trolling.

[Kuwagami]

That being said, I wish PS3 was dropped rather tomorrow than the day after, because PS3 is the sole reason we can't have nice things
PS3 limitations, the everyday argument from our lovely dev team why NOTHING can be implemented the way we'd wish it to be.

Don't you worry, as soon as PS3 is dropped, it will become "servers limitations" (like the inventory problems right now)

Then it'll be "PCs that suck limitations".

Then PS4 limitations

Then PS20 limitations

etc etc.

excuses are just excuses usually, a way to say "It might be possible but the invesments needed can't outweight the eventual benefits, so no".

[Kosmos992k]

That being said, I wish PS3 was dropped rather tomorrow than the day after, because PS3 is the sole reason we can't have nice things
PS3 limitations, the everyday argument from our lovely dev team why NOTHING can be implemented the way we'd wish it to be.

That's incorrect. The game caters for platforms such as the PS3 and low end PCs taht do not have the graphical oomph to run the game with bells and whistles at even 720p resolution. As such, catering to the PS3 in effects holds the door open to a lot of PC players with less than stellar hardware.

You claim that PS3 limitations is the everyday explanation from the developers for why such and such a thing can't be implemented, that is really not the case. It is however the everyday assumed reason, that assumption being made by many players of the game and in particular PC players who blame PS3 for the lack of the magical HD texture pack.

[CrimsonThunder]

Lol, my fiance played all the way up to A1S on PS3 with no issues outside of piss poor loading times. The only reason the change became necessary is that the PS3 can't handle Alexander very well so it frequently caused crashes.

Someone is either a troll or bitter.

[Atoli]

You claim that PS3 limitations is the everyday explanation from the developers for why such and such a thing can't be implemented, that is really not the case.
It is however the everyday assumed reason, that assumption being made by many players of the game and in particular PC players who blame PS3 for the lack of the magical HD texture pack.

HD textures is pretty much the last thing I'd care about, and I have a PC who could run everything on max settings perfectly. And while you are right that often it is just what players ASSUME to be the reason, there have been several instances where SE said "we can't do that because the PS3 wouldn't be able to handle it", which is probably the reason why now so many people jump to that as the standard reason, since they heard it so often before.

But, like Kuwagami said, even if the PS3 support was dropped, low-grade PCs would still be supported, one day the PS4 will be considered old, and so on. We just can't have nice things, can we?

[Kosmos992k]

HD textures is pretty much the last thing I'd care about, and I have a PC who could run everything on max settings perfectly. And while you are right that often it is just what players ASSUME to be the reason, there have been several instances where SE said "we can't do that because the PS3 wouldn't be able to handle it", which is probably the reason why now so many people jump to that as the standard reason, since they heard it so often before.

But, like Kuwagami said, even if the PS3 support was dropped, low-grade PCs would still be supported, one day the PS4 will be considered old, and so on. We just can't have nice things, can we?

Well, we can, but it more depends on the game architecture. Almost every discussion about requests that SE can/cant do ends up coming down to the memory budget. Immediately everyone assumes that the limited memory on the PS3 is therefore the problem. However more often than not the memory budget is referencing how much data encompasses a character and therefore how much has to be written back to the DB every 15 seconds.

[Evangela]

The PS3 version should be discontinued sooner than later. Why should we care about people who're holding the others back? I hate when people slow down the others and want the others to wait for them instead of making themselves faster.

[Alahra]

Why should we care about people who're holding the others back?

You may not, but SE's bottom line certainly does. Until the PS3 subscriber base is sufficiently low enough to no longer justify the game's continued support of it, it's here to stay.

I wouldn't anticipate it being dropped any sooner than 5.0, though I'd say there's a slim possibility of support being dropped for 4.0.