Lack of animations not addressed in live letter

[Fensfield]

How long do you think before we start to see the words "PS3 limitations" in official posts? I'm not even sure if there will be limitations, given newer PS3s have a lot more storage to work with than the PS2 HDD. We'll find out, though. Maybe after 2 or 3 expansions.

Well, on that point at least we have had official word.

v1.x was limited by the PS3 - we've had developer responses pointing out that the copy/paste and lack of large-scale environmental variation within zones was a side-effect of the PS3's limited RAM. It's supposedly why we now have smaller zones; to accommodate the variation everyone demanded inspite of the PS3.

That being said though, they've also said that the new engine was built with the long-term in mind, and that upgrading the game to be within the specs of another machine - the PS4 say - when the time came that they could leave the PS3 behind, was not out of the question.