Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
The point of it is to get around technical limitations that prevent them expanding the inventory itself. The inventory is carried with you into duties, whereas the saddlebag is not. Behind the scenes, that means the data doesn't have to be transferred to the duty servers.

The saddlebag is carried with you to other worlds and data centers, while a retainer is not due to being tied to the marketboard on your homeworld.

That's the difference between the saddlebag, retainer and inventory. The differences are technical behind the scenes, and this was their workaround to give more inventory without it having to transfer to duty servers or be limited like retainers are.
Ah, all ends in sphagetti it seems. Maybe those were PS3 limitations?

I wonder if they can actually expand the saddlebag itself if the inventory is not possible. But just making stuff usable from there like dyes, materia, glamours, (outside of duties) would be a nice QoL.