PS3 or PC?

[Rivienne]

My take playing on both: I much prefer healing on controller on PS3, whereas I moderately prefer DPS on keyboard. I am told many people are the opposite, though I don't know why. Tanking on either scares me.

The controls are different, but I find them very natural for me once I get a good layout. The only annoying thing is how when you upgrade from CNJ to WHM it resets all your bars so you have to spend 10 minutes resetting them up before you save your new gear set.

Also, absolutely you still want a mouse and keyboard. Mouse for the configuration UI and the occasional odd things. Keyboard for setting up macros, and of course chat.

Load time is slower than on PC if you are using the stock hard drive. I haven't tried on the 12GB PS3 which uses flash so I don't know if that one has the same issue but others report SSD solve the loading problem in any case. That said my PC also has crappy load times, so it would not surprise me at all if at all came down to the old harddrives.

My PS3 is better quality graphics than my PC which is at low settings, but of course it will be worse graphics than the PC if you have any graphics setting above midline. The PC high end graphics are amazing compared to the low end PC graphics I have, so I usually stick with my PS3. But I am really looking forward to PS4 so I can get the awesome.

[ShackledDreams]

My take playing on both: I much prefer healing on controller on PS3, whereas I moderately prefer DPS on keyboard

This is basically my take on the keyboard/controller argument. It might be a little easier to heal people at random fates on a keyboard and mouse, but it most certainly easier to heal people in groups with the controller (it did take a little getting use to it though). Working as a Scholar, this comes in handy because we don't have the big AoE heals like White Mages, so you have to switch targets often to keep everyone alive.