PlayStation 3 version: Why Bother?

[ChiyoKatsui]

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

That's actually not completely Microsoft's fault there, it's the way the game is coded. The game very cpu dependant, and that was pre-abyssea.

I noticed on my old setup that ran the game at 1080p @ 29.4FPS (whatever windower's fps option shows at cap), once abyssea came out, those areas really spiked my old cpu hard.

Seeing that people use to have RRoD/heat issues just doing Besieged or Campaign battles on the 360, it's not all that suprising that your friend got a RRoD playing FFXI on his 360 now, seeing that abyssea is just about all anyone seems to do anymore.

On that note, the game plays much better on a PC... For the price of his few months old 360, he could of pretty much built a pc to play XI.

Real bugs in FFXI were like how people playing on Xbox360 couldn't complete a single Besieged for quite some time. And the only game-breaking errors I ever noticed in FFXi was when it wasn't Vista compatible if people had to upgrade to Vista.

Actually, the game worked on Vista to begin with, even without the Vista POL update. People are just not computer literate enough to tinker with settings themselves, so they released a new version with updated manifests.

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

Yea, that's not really a valid reason... My PS3 and PC are both hooked up to my 50" Plasma...