Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
... but it does feel smaller since they are all broken up into smaller zones.
Though players have tried to claim all kinds of different things as being due to PS3 limitations, one of the few things that SE themselves acknowledged as being due to the limitations of the PS3 platform is that they had to keep zones fairly small (and therefore more subdivided than they would have liked). With PS3 support being dropped when the next expansion comes out, I'm expecting Stormblood's new regions to be larger (though that might also mean fewer of them).