PS3 limitations?

[Shioban]

An MMO has ALOT of crap going on.

A-Helluva-Lot

The main issue the Playstation 3 in particular hits is 'Memory'

MMO's have to do alot more than some of the games you may have played on your PS3 so far.
Think about all the crap going on

Options
Menus
3D Models
Textures
Sounds
Particles/Effects
Messages
Number Crunching
Animations
ALL DAT GRAZZ

All happening in ""realtime"".

This chews up memory like crazy.

The PS3 is very limited in memory now for gaming standards, this is one issue developers hit with most games of this calibur.



Another is processing power, balancing performance and quality can be a difficult task.
The original reason why FFXIV 1.0 simply did not run on a PS3

For example;
PS3 ~230 Gigaflops
Gaming PC ~1.0-3.0 Teraflops

And even those PC's had trouble with FFXIV 1.0 and evidently FFXIV:ARR (Although considerably less so than 1.0)


TL;DR

For what they are achiveing so far on the PS3, just be thankfull they even got it to work.