PS3 limitations?

[ClausL]

Little bit nervous about this.

a friend told me that SE has admitted that there WILL be PS3 limitations on FFXIV development

I'm not surprised because PS3 is ancient, 8 year old hardware

what do you guys think the PS3 limitations are?? storage space, area sizes?

somewhat related: why are they releasing FFXIV on PS3 when the console is already out of date? isn't the plan to make FFXIV last a long time? how's that going to work on an out of date console?

Discuss

[Momita]

Little bit nervous about this.

a friend told me that SE has admitted that there WILL be PS3 limitations on FFXIV development

I'm not surprised because PS3 is ancient, 8 year old hardware

what do you guys think the PS3 limitations are?? storage space, area sizes?

somewhat related: why are they releasing FFXIV on PS3 when the console is already out of date? isn't the plan to make FFXIV last a long time? how's that going to work on an out of date console?

Discuss

[finiteHP]

Credit goes to Denmo for coining the phrase.

[Cedri]

Well if one were to keep up with the current news, PS4 is backwards compatible with PS3 games.

[ClausL]

Well if one were to keep up with the current news, PS4 is backwards compatible with PS3 games.

No it isn't.

[Cedri]

No it isn't.

Made ya google =3

[Abriael]

Posting history is always enlightening. A particular user debuted in this forum with a thread that says that they should scrap the PS3 version, in which he's explained multiple times that there won't be any PS3 limitations for this game and why, then he opens a moltitude of trollthreads until he finally runs out of false and misleading arguments and then goes back full circle to say that "a friend" (LOL ) told him that there will be PS3 limitations.

Which, of course, is impossible, since the PS3 is not the leading platform, and EVERYTHING in development can be scaled down on port target platforms without affecting the lead platform.

Again, I will Quote Vergil:

Just hit that report button and sooner or later we'll be rid of this.

[ClausL]

If you're reporting me for posting my opinions and questions, you're the one breaking the rules here.

The PS3/PC servers are shared if you didn't know, so if content needs to be limited to accommodate the PS3 version, the PC will suffer too.

It's already plainly obvious that elements of ARR are being scaled back/toned down to accommodate the ancient PS3 hardware.

[Abriael]

If you're reporting me for posting my opinions and questions, you're the one breaking the rules here.

No, I'm reporting you for pulling out a topic that has already been discussed and explained to death in another thread that you opened, and for being a very obvious and persistent, although very weak, concern troll.

On top of that the second part of your OP is exactly the same topic of your previous thread.

The PS3/PC servers are shared if you didn't know, so if content needs to be limited to accommodate the PS3 version, the PC will suffer too.

I suggest finding solid arguments, it may make your trolling more believable. I will explain for the unawares, so they don't fall in your net and then go do something more constructive and leave the moderators do what they deem necessary.

Content in a MMORPG is client-side. It doesn't stream from the servers. Sharing servers does not in any way affect content, as the PS3 version could easily have the same graphics as minecraft, and be able to run seamlessly on the same servers as the PC version.

Of course you've been already explained this multiple times in the previous thread. Which clearly identifies you.

It's already plainly obvious that elements of ARR are being scaled back/toned down to accommodate the ancient PS3 hardware.

You saying something is "obvious" doesn't make it so.

[Hulan]

The PS3/PC servers are shared if you didn't know, so if content needs to be limited to accommodate the PS3 version, the PC will suffer too.

/sigh. I try; I try really hard not to get sucked into these arguments for the sake of arguments. But as a computer scientist, I genuinely cannot let this go. You clearly do not have the foggiest notion of how the Server, Client relationship works. Either that, or you are being purposely obtuse to get a rise. Because that statement is quite patently wrong.

Any prohibitively expensive computational work can be pawned off to the server at the cost of ~300ms of transmittion time. Furthermore, only thing holding the PS3 back at this point is memory space (a problem intrinsic to all gen 7 consoles [though it seems the gen 8 ones will be finally rectifying that]). Memory is going to restrict any number of possible implementations on the PS3. Which, as we know, is being developed in parallel to the PC version.

Here's a real world example: Have you ever wondered why it is that you can use Facebook on your smartphone and your computer? No? Of course you haven't, because that would be silly. The two clients work in completely different ways, servering the same Data (MVC I'm looking at you) through clients optimized for their platform.