When is the PS3 Version going to get cancelled?

[raymon]

what is the PS3 version holding back?

thought i'd quote myself as nobody seems to answer this question

[FinalWolf]

Ps3 is fine guys it sometimes add the extra challenge like turning monsters invisible!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9jmzOi20ik

[Lemuria]

What's with this myth that dropping PS3 support somehow magically makes the game better for everyone? People assume way too much. You assume there's anything being 'held back' by the console, you assume the game would be different if PS3 support wasn't available, and you assume that everyone already has a PS4 so there's no reason to keep it.

When you make an assumption, you make an ass out of 'u' and mption, weddo!

[raymon]

snip

this exactly.
i have asked many times what exactly is PS3 doing that is hazardous to the game but the question seems to have been ignored thus far

[Kosmos992k]

this exactly.
i have asked many times what exactly is PS3 doing that is hazardous to the game but the question seems to have been ignored thus far

Thats because the answer is 'nothing' but people don't want to say that after all the anti-PS3 rhetoric.

[SonyTriple]

What's with this myth that dropping PS3 support somehow magically makes the game better for everyone? People assume way too much. You assume there's anything being 'held back' by the console, you assume the game would be different if PS3 support wasn't available, and you assume that everyone already has a PS4 so there's no reason to keep it.

When you make an assumption, you make an ass out of 'u' and mption, weddo!

PS3 is 10 years old and came out in 2006 if you don't understand that and how it would be different on a next gen console I don't know what else to tell you.

[Valkyrie-Amber]

again i say the whole game engine willl not be changed with dropping ps3 support....

[bass9020]

again i say the whole game engine willl not be changed with dropping ps3 support....

Sadly this.

[Themis]

PS3 is 10 years old and came out in 2006 if you don't understand that and how it would be different on a next gen console I don't know what else to tell you.

The fact remains that you are making assumptions based on nothing more than a musing. Even if the PS3 had never been considered for this game its design would still have been the same.

It has always been said by the development that they will drop the PS3 when it makes something they want to do impossible without severe differences in experience. It's apparent that not being able to see as many models or have a smaller view distance (or whatever other mostly graphical issues there are that are really different between the PS3 and PS4/PC) is not a strong enough argument, just yet, to warrant cancelling the support for the game.

It's also apparent that the development will do what they can to try to put in features across all platforms. Look at the TP bars that were added - the PC and PS4 could have handled this with numbers and still have the party bonus bar on screen but we all have the same result because the PS3's memory is not high enough to support it all. Not having numbers and not seeing that bonuses bar is not a big enough problem (it's not at all, personally speaking) to simply say that the PS3 has held anything back here, despite it being the PS3s fault that this is the solution.

tl;dr The PS3 will be dropped when it becomes impossible, without reasonable compromise, to add in a feature or system to the game that the development wants to put in. Either that, or the player base playing exclusively on the PS3 becomes so small that it is no longer worth the cost of supporting. We'd probably see the former reason first, though.

[Kosmos992k]

For the love of the Twelve, someone please lock this topic.