How long should SE support PS3 client

[Beetle]

How long should SE support PS3 client for this game.

[Slatervonjager]

Considering they have no plans to stop supporting it any time soon, then I'd say look at FF11. Don't care if people complain or whine and claim "it's holding the game back". If there is a demand for it still, they will support it. You don't cut off a limb a perfectly healthy limb.

[Estellios]

They said that they'd drop it once it begins getting in the way of development, and that for now the PS3 should last up until and including the first expansion.

I'm guessing they are more open to it than the FF11 devs simply by virtue of the "upgrade to the PS4 version for free" thing.

[lololink]

Not before 4.0( which would means not before 3 years, more or less ) imo.

[necrosis]

Not before 4.0( which would means not before 3 years, more or less ) imo.

I read to at least 3.0. After that is up in the air.

[Diavolo]

As long as there's still a significant PS3 base and as long as they keep paying their subs. I don't have a problem with PS3 players, personally. People need to pull the sticks out of their asses.

[TonyACT]

As long as there's still a significant PS3 base and as long as they keep paying their subs. I don't have a problem with PS3 players, personally. People need to pull the sticks out of their asses.

Sticks? How wude.

It's more about how long they will wear the cost of supporting a platform with possibly declining numbers rather than any problem with the players.

On the other side of the coin, a free upgrade to the PS4 version is all well and good - but does it come with a free upgrade of the hardware? Not a lot of people I know have made the move to the PS4 as yet given that the 'next gen' consoles are still early days with a bit of a dearth of titles.

[Lunavi]

Late 2016 or early 2016 is my guess.

[Lithera]

A large part of why they never dropped PS2 on FFXI was because of how many players in Japan still played on it. Xbox 360 never really caught on over there and even though hey never bothered with a PS3 client for whatever reason, the original PS3s were backward compatible and as such they could play the PS2 version on the PS3. That isn't as big an issue with FFXIV and PS3 with the player base in general being much more PC heavy along with the free upgrade to PS4 version. Had SE ported FFXI to PS3 instead of Xbox I think you may have seen an end to the PS2 client of FFXI.

[rhemi1]

A large part of why they never dropped PS2 on FFXI was because of how many players in Japan still played on it.

XI was also released at the start of the PS2's lifetime. XIV was released near the end of the PS3's lifetime. So, I'm betting PS3 support will be dropped shortly after the first expansion has paid its dues. By then the PS4 should have a price drop and a larger market share making it more accessible for console players still wishing to stay on a console and more logical for the devs to cut off support.