PlayStation 3 version: Why Bother?

[Andrien]

A friend of mine and his few months old Xbox360 got a RRoD from just playing FFXI, and only FFXI. lol

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Now onto expansions, guess what all they need to do is upload the expansions to PSN

No full-budget, current-gen FF games can be bought for download from PSN. "Can" isn't the same as "will."

Yoshi-P has already said he wants to get the game to as many people as possible, which tells me he will port it to PS4,

All the more reason to abandon any PS3 players at that time. "Just upgrade!"

You also say how "FFXIV was released in PS2's prime" however there is one peripheral that was required for FFXI, which is the Hard Drive,

I would wager that more HDD-capable PS2's were sold than PS3 units in total. On top of that, there were also the backwards-compatible PS3's, which meant a published PS2 title could be played on both platforms. Indications are that the next PlayStation will not play PS3 games, which can only discourage PS3 publishing once the new system is out.

[Pseudopsia]

A friend of mine and his few months old Xbox360 got a RRoD from just playing FFXI, and only FFXI. lol

LOL, Microsoft didn't fix RRoD yet? or was this an old model?

[Yolteotl]

There have never been, and will never be, as many PS3 users as there were PS2 users. "The numbers" for PS3 will never be as good as they were for PS2 at any point in its history.

That may be true, but the number of online and MMO capable PS3 users will always exceed the number of PS2 users that played online and had the HDD to play FFXI.

[Mamba]

Ya'll wrong...

Let me answer the question.

Why bother with PS3?
So I can come downstairs on a Sunday morning in my pyjamas and lounge on my couch and play FFXIV from our 52' TV instead of sitting antisocially in the study infront of our PC
Thanks you SE for bringing our the PS3 version <3

[Andrien]

LOL, Microsoft didn't fix RRoD yet? or was this an old model?

it was the old model

[Yolteotl]

And as for the black screen in FFXI, that;s predominantly a data corruption on the HDD and since the PS2 doesnt have the proper correctional utilities for that (unlike the PS3) i guess if u mess up the HDD enough then yea the black screens could eventually make it unplayable.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

At this point you're just speculating things nobody has the answer for.

The only thing we have to go on is prior behavior. How is it not reasonable at this point to assume S-E will behave as they have in the past?

the PSN store will always be there

PSN is a new thing for Sony. Over in Microsoft land, have you tried connecting to Xbox Live with an original Xbox lately?

[Kirito]

Ya'll wrong...

Let me answer the question.

Why bother with PS3?
So I can come downstairs on a Sunday morning in my pyjamas and lounge on my couch and play FFXIV from our 52' TV instead of sitting antisocially in the study infront of our PC
Thanks you SE for bringing our the PS3 version <3

It also supports the keyboard industry as you'll eventually be forced to use a keyboard

[Yolteotl]

lol she could try that gimmicky micro keyboard u can snap on the ps3 controller, sounds pretty dern inefficient to type on tho