Quote Originally Posted by Wildsprite View Post
actually you're wrong, you're not taking certain things into account, unlike the PS3 the PC also has windows(each driver set and any software takes memory to run on top of the minimum of the OS) to deal with otherwise minimum for PC would likely be 256MB as well
It took me about two seconds to bring up my Windows Task Manager. Apparently I have 90 processes running at the moment, one of which being FFXIV. My physical memory usage is at a stable 45% out of 8GB of RAM. The minimum requirement for the operating systems that new PCs come out with is 2GB (if 64 bit, 1GB if 32-bit), though the OS doesn't typically use all of that RAM at any one point in time. 256MB is such an infinitesimally small number these days that it can't help but limit what can be done with the game. And I'm not just talking about graphics - I'm talking about even such things as basic UI features. So much of the horribly clunky UI functions (e.g. the bag, the hideous party UI, the menus within menus within menus) in XIV are because the PS3 version is already very much near its limit.

I'm not sure I'm explaining things well. Suffice to say, it's the 256MB that's the problem, not the 2+GB in PCs.