Memory can be worked around, the biggest challenge will be getting a successful MMO on a console in the first place, history doesn't favour the genre on anything but PC.

Yeah, even for a MMO. Its requirements are pretty dang high. Personally I say let SE take their time. Im still amazed that their actually releasing FFXIV this year on PC.

if you beleave this your wrong. so you telling me they brought out the last final fantasy game. on the ps3 no issues no downsample uncompressed. they brought out other games too and now supposidly saying we got memory problems. hmmmm another exclusive title that needs to be tryed to get knocked down. smells bit fishy.

if they understood the ps3 like the first party's they realise they dont have to rely all on the memory but also the vga memory too as they work differntly and combined as one when needed. so you do get 512mb just the 360 has a set 512mb ram.

bullcrap..

when your having issues that causes delays, reach out to sony and sony's first parties and ask them how to handle it.. ask them how to properly use the spe's, call up your contact at sony and say, "can you connect me with someone at insomniac or naughty dog? i'd like to run a few issues by them"

on the flip side of that, sony should be reaching out to all third party developers and asking them before hand if they have any concerns or issues they can assist with or maybe put them in contact with..

even early on i knew a lot of the "ps3 cant handle or do this" was crap.. epic, a company that loves microsoft more than anything.. was able to make unreal tournament 3 dance on the ps3 as well has give an optional install and allow for pc developed mods to be shared with the ps3 console. so when a dev says "i cant get unreal engine 3 to work properly on the ps3" i say you dont know what your doing.

if its your own engine, then the problem may be with the engine, it may need tweaking..

run all the audio through one spe.. that's it.. that should alleviate some memory

or do what kojima did, its a huge blu ray disc, copy and paste parts of maps and items all over the disc so that read and write access is faster..

its not even being a lazy developer its being a bad one when your not willing to try new things with your software but expect a piece of hardware to change..

more on topic.. it all worked out when you made ffxi with the ps2 in mind.. what changed now? oh i get it, you want it to work on the 360 so your doing it with the 360 in mind hoping you can work out your billing issues with them later and leaving the ps3 where the bulk of your fans are in the cold..

screw you SE...

(by the way my ffxiv collectors edition is already pre ordered and paid for LOL)

@hiredhelp
Admittedly man this is an MMO. And sustaining a huge open world RPG like this requires some hefty RAM. PS3 hasn't got the luxury of 2GB+ like most decent 2009/2010 rigs.

Im not sure but i think SE likely isnt the best at handling memory issues.

they can stream it like in killzone 3....They just need to phone sony for help,be easy resolved...

I would've bought DC Universe over this anyways so maybe I'll care when it releases next year.

(Spoilers: I won't)

Optical_Matrix
I understand that my freind but theres alot of MMO'S due out.
one of witch is DC UNIVESE. we dont hear about issues there.

if they build a new engine that maximises the spu's there problems will be reduced, i am betting this is what they are doing now after they learnt that a simple port will not work as pc to ps3 would be very memory intensive, they are just using excuse for now, just remember how much they winged on ff13, and that was not an MMORPG

Will have to play DC Universe and The agency til march.....

My guess is that most of you have not. Im a huge ps3 fanboy so please listen. im not bashing the ps3 but it can not handle what the pc demands from this game. this game is the best looking game i have ever seen. it runs wonderful. it does not have ONE loading screen (after of course u load into the server) and it has prolly thousands of people playing at once with as many areas.
How do they get this? well the rec specs on PC are 4 gigs, ram, i7 (quad core) process, 460 Nividia Neforce ghx card with 1 gig or mem etc..... the ps3 is no where near these specs.... So its completely understandable they are having problems.
The game will come on ps3 but it will be gimped. So b4 we curse SE to hell lets all look at what they are trying to squeeze in the ps3 and how a game of this size has never been done on the ps3. if (and when IMHO) this game comes out on ps3 and looks awesome people will be amazed. i put about 30 hours into the beta and ive pre ordered the 80 dollar game i can not wait!!!!!

I call it bullsh1t, they just wanna release it in mars like FF13 to boot the sale again after the hype of FF14 PC version's starting to fade away.

i like pie

My N900 comes with 32gb.

the architecture of ps3 is the problem, ps3 games developed side pc and 360 games will probably always have this problem, if they knew how to use ps3 like digi guys or someone then this would be super easy to make on ps3 better

Will have to use caching from blu-ray to HD, Should help quite abit, of course having less memory will always be a problem when going from 4-8gb on a PC, and that's without 1gb etc GPU'S.

It's asking alot.

But i'm surprised they never did it the other way around.

Start on PS3, you know what your capable of memory wise and all the tricks as stated above and then up whatever you can in the PC version, i/e textures,shadows etc.

Thing i found with microsd cards memory wise is they fkup alot. I've had 4gb and 8gb go wrong and from no external damage or otherwise.

Plus heat from 3.2ghz ram - ouchie.

If they made the ps3 version first then ported it to PC

But they want to go from pc to ps3 and winge because it's not a PC, that is just pathetic

Maybe the ps3 should not have split the ram in two,where the 360 has combined ram.i asure you all that sony will make the ps4 dev friendly next generation.in the buisness world time is money.

damm so many experts on this site maybe you guys should go work with square enix.