PlayStation 3 version: Why Bother?

[Alerith]

I feel as though no actual thought was used when the OP was typing out their initial post...Even a child can give a basic answer: "It's the system I play on currently."

If we're in the mood for stupid questions along these lines:

"PS3 was bound to come out sooner or later. Why did so many people bother buying PS2's?"
"Why play Dynasty Warriors 5 when Dynasty Warriors 6 is eventually going to come out?"
"Why eat now if you're gonna be hungry later?"

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

"It's the system I play on currently."

Nobody here has played XIV on a PS3 before.

"PS3 was bound to come out sooner or later. Why did so many people bother buying PS2's?"

The PS3 has never been and will never be as popular as the PS2 was, and FFXI got three whole expansions before the PS2 had to compete with its own successor. Will any expansions for ARR be published for the PS3?

[Yolteotl]

Originally Posted by Alerith
"It's the system I play on currently."

Nobody here has played XIV on a PS3 before.

Thats the whole point, ever since Rapture was announced SE has said that it will be a PS3 title. Everyone who exclusivley plays games on the PS3 and has interest in FFXIV is a whole new branch of the market.

Potential system limitations is a non-issue with FFXIV because of the scalability of the engine and the seperation of development for PC and PS3. Two things that did not exist for FFXI when it hit the system limitations of the PS2. FFXI was designed for PS2 and ported to PC until the development of the PC client that was used to port over to the XBox 360 which wasn't until Wings of the Goddess?