Quote Originally Posted by nintendo414 View Post
As a ps3 player it's a bit sad to see people really happy that other people might no longer be able to play. But i do understand that there were restriction caused by keeping the support so i won't say i don't understand partially, just remember that this might hurt more people then help . Luckily got a ps4 for my birthday so hope I'll be able to switch soon especially if we're getting a free upgrade.
As a former PS3 player, I do feel for those who'll inevitably get left behind. But I would be extremely surprised in Yoshida and the rest of the dev team didn't take a lot of their information into consideration before making this decision. What with the dropping PS4 prices, the difficulty of catering to PC, PS4, and PS3 players combined, and the (likely) dwindling PS3 player population, they probably felt that now was the best time to drop support. After all, if they didn't drop support with 4.0, then we'd be waiting another two years for this to happen with 5.0. The PS3 population would continue to shift to PS4 or PC, and the devs would continue spending time creating content work-arounds for the lower specs of the PS3 instead of working on improving the overall game quality.