Force PS3 players to migrate over to PS4 and then drop support for it

[Evangela]

You people can find million reasons to defend the PS3 but... will you admit that the PS3 version is holding the game back?

[KenzieLynch]

You people can find million reasons to defend the PS3 but... will you admit that the PS3 version is holding the game back?

Let me put it to you this way.

We will never truly know for sure what Yoshi-P pitched to SE to get them to greenlight a reboot of the game, but for SE to even consider doing something so absolutely unprecedented Yoshi will have had to have a pretty remarkable sales pitch to show SE how they could recoup their investment. I am 99.9% sure that one of his best cards to play would have been that Final Fantasy XIV would not be scalable to the PS3 in its current form and a key incentive in remaking this game is to widen the potential user base to a further 45-50 million PS3 users (I believe it would have been around they figure at the time) aswell as people with low-mid end PC's which count for millions more. (...cont)

[SarcasmMisser]

You people can find million reasons to defend the PS3 but... will you admit that the PS3 version is holding the game back?

In only one sense, a technical sense. It is in fact driving success because, particularly in japan, having a PC only game gimps your sales, console ports reach out to more customers and this can only help the game.