PlayStation 3 version: Why Bother?

[Yrusama]

Yoshi-P is smart. I'm sure they'll look into a way to port the game over to the PS4 once it's more widely used. XIV may have more detailed environments and characters than XI, but it still lacks the volume of content. I rather doubt they'd have an easy, let alone cost-effective, way to revamp XI. And that's a revamp, not a simple port. I'm sure putting ARR on the PS4 would be much easier than having to rebuild the whole game.

[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...

[Meatdawg]

Screw PS3, ill just stream ARR onto this..

http://shield.nvidia.com/

http://www.twitch.tv/nvidia/b/354775190

Jump to the 2 hour mark

[Yolteotl]

Yoshi-P is smart. I'm sure they'll look into a way to port the game over to the PS4 once it's more widely used. XIV may have more detailed environments and characters than XI, but it still lacks the volume of content. I rather doubt they'd have an easy, let alone cost-effective, way to revamp XI. And that's a revamp, not a simple port. I'm sure putting ARR on the PS4 would be much easier than having to rebuild the whole game.

They actually looked into porting FFXI to the PS3 not too long ago, but apparently dropped it. Pretty safe to assume the primary reason is the really bad coding the PS3 needs to run a game well because of the split RAM (main reason ffxiv 1.0 wasn't PS3 capable; main reason Bethesda hit their roadblock on Skyrim DLC; main reason so many games are developed for Xbox360, ported to PC, then ported to PS3 and look and play inferiorly on the PS3 but PS3 exclusives are amazing)

[Pwnagraphic]

Not sure if it's been said, but you had to buy a $100 HDD for the PS2 version and that thing wasn't so popular. Barely anyone had an HDD and so why make more expansions for something it won't sell on anyway? Japanese players had more PC versions than PS2 also.. I barely ran into a PS2 owning Japanese person.

[Yolteotl]

Not sure if it's been said, but you had to buy a $100 HDD for the PS2 version and that thing wasn't so popular. Barely anyone had an HDD and so why make more expansions for something it won't sell on anyway? Japanese players had more PC versions than PS2 also.. I barely ran into a PS2 owning Japanese person.

And in NA FFXI was the only game to ever utilize that $100 HDD lol

[Pseudopsia]

Screw PS3, ill just stream ARR onto this..

http://shield.nvidia.com/

It's probably easy to support with FFXIV running on a PC streaming to this controller.

Looks like NVIDIA trying to turn the PC into an expensive console.

With Tegra 4 built into this controller it's a handheld console on its own. This will directly compete with PS Vita, however it's not as portable since it's bigger.

I have to say this is pure genius of Nvidia using their tegra SoC this way. Nvidia back into console wars.

[ChiyoKatsui]

And in NA FFXI was the only game to ever utilize that $100 HDD lol

HDLoader. While pulled from the market eventually, it was originally on sale as an unlicensed pressed disc. I'm sure most of you know what HDLoader is by now.

[Yolteotl]

HDLoader. While pulled from the market eventually, it was originally on sale as an unlicensed pressed disc. I'm sure most of you know what HDLoader is by now.

HDLoader wasn't a game, it was a pirating/savedata utility

[ZakarnRosewood]

Final Fantasy XI was released for the PlayStation 2 first before other platforms, during the height of that console's popularity. The PS2 slim hadn't even been announced yet. And yet today, the PS2 version of Seekers of Adoulin will not be released in North America, and in general it is the PC version that seems to get the most support and attention from Square-Enix.

Now we have ARR on the horizon. 1.0, at least, was written for and graced the PC first. Meanwhile, all indications are the next PlayStation will be announced by the time ARR hits shelves; and there's certainly no guarantee that Sony's next console will play PS3 games.

With the cards already stacked against the PS3 version, and with the history of FFXI showing that support for console versions will get axed well before the PC version, why is Square-Enix bothering with releasing the PS3 version of the game at all at this point? And why should players make the commitment of buying the PS3 version when history shows they'll just have to move to the PC eventually anyway?

Your face, why bother... lol j/k
Seriously though, being against this is being against more people playing that might not otherwise.