Quote Originally Posted by Phe View Post
compare the price of a PC able to run FFXIV smoothly with the price of a PS3.
These honestly seem about equal if you buy parts on sale... My computer ran 1.0 pretty well at about 75% settings (9 character draw, level 3 shadows, etc) at about $300 value three years ago.

I do hope we aren't limited by the PS3 in ways that would have never been needed for the PS4 though, and that it will be playable on the PS4 when the time comes.