SE will not release this game on the PS3 until they are sure they can turn around the negative press it has received. The PS3 launch will be billed as a relaunch of the game and they will pull out all the stops with it adding a load of new content with it, they will do everything they can to say "look at all the changes we have made, this game is a lot better now". Everything rides on the PS3 release so there is no way they would release now or the reviews and media would just say "yeah they improved a few things but there is still problems and no content."

If they released now what would they say "we have cleaned up the UI a bit, changed SP/EXP accumulation and a few other things." hardly inspiring is it. It would be a lot better if they could say "Look we have a new UI, new zone's, new missions, new quests, new classes, companies, airship's, chocobo's, NM's and a lot more." Now that would get me interested again.

So we are just going to have to be patient, once they have the UI how they want it and the gameplay and mechanic's of the game nailed, then they will start looking at the PS3 release. As it is now we are playing nothing more than an extended beta.