It just occurred to me . . . .

[RitsukoSonoda]

I'll go with the unmentioned Option C: the discontinued platform, PS3 (or at least, that's the clearest example we've seen yet of a weak link).

It's also worth pointing out that minimum specs aren't a good barometer for whether PCs are 'holding a game back' or not. Unlike on fixed-hardware consoles, SE doesn't need to ensure that minimum specs for a PC provide a good experience - just a nominally playable one. As such, they're almost always lower than they should be. Recommended specs are a far better view into what a developer things a game needs to run properly, and lo and behold, those blow stock PS4 hardware out of the water (in fact, they're roughly what you'd see if you were trying to match up with PS4 Pro hardware).


Something is only a 'weak link' if it meaningfully impacts development decisions for an individual title. A basic prerequisite for this condition to arise: the number of impacted users has to be significant enough to justify the development compromises. The 32-bit PC crowd is most assuredly not large enough for that. While we lack hardware statistics for XIV players in particular (or at least, I'm not aware of them if they exist), it's highly likely that SE wouldn't lose an appreciable number of customers until and unless they began pushing system requirements beyond the capabilities of a PS4, at which point that platform would definitely be more of a loss.

All this to say, PC as a platform is almost never a weak link from a hardware perspective. Occasionally weaker PCs may fall behind, but the numbers aren't large enough to restrict developers.

That's the big thing there about PC requirements. It's minimal spec to just run the game in a stable state. The game could be running at 30fps on minimal display settings to achieve that stability. Where as static spec consoles have an expected visual quality attached to them

[Maero]

How would it be a mess coming to PS5? They are working on a version for it. It was on PS3 and the transition to PS4 was great..
Also apparently xbot will be included next year, so same could be said for that platform then.

[Jimmymagic]

Man PC users better wake up..

Consoles are on the way to overtake pc on gaming very very soon.

Majority of players I've raided and done other content with complain constantly about there pc performance.

This whole PC players are the master race is just a bunch of bs..

Amazing short stack offering an opinion on console that he claims is trash and yet has no bearing to back it up...did you even play on ps or are you just full of it as usual.

[White_Wolf_X]

Man PC users better wake up..

Consoles are on the way to overtake pc on gaming very very soon.

Majority of players I've raided and done other content with complain constantly about there pc performance.

This whole PC players are the master race is just a bunch of bs..

Amazing short stack offering an opinion on console that he claims is trash and yet has no bearing to back it up...did you even play on ps or are you just full of it as usual.

Consoles wont overtake PC anytime soon, simple because after each console release you won't see any new one for at least 5 years ( maybe even longer ) while any PC user can upgrade CPU/GPU etc every year if want to.

Also sounds like the people you have been raiding with need to upgrade their PC if they are having issues.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Man PC users better wake up..

Consoles are on the way to overtake pc on gaming very very soon.

Majority of players I've raided and done other content with complain constantly about there pc performance.

This whole PC players are the master race is just a bunch of bs..

Amazing short stack offering an opinion on console that he claims is trash and yet has no bearing to back it up...did you even play on ps or are you just full of it as usual.

The people in your raid group sound like they're playing the game on $300 Walmart "gaming" PC's, don't know how to optimize their PC, or are playing on a PC older than a PS4. Or any combination of the 3. The only reason I sit at 60fps on 4k with max settings and all effects on is because the framerate is capped to not go any higher than that.

The main thing a consoles primarily hit is a good performance to cost ratio. Even when they launch they can't compete with the raw power available to PC's when the focus is on PC performance rather than cost.

[purgatori]

I think it would only be a 'mess' if they were to port FFXIV to the Switch. I'm hoping that next-gen will see some sort of substantial upgrade in graphical fidelity, and that would be very difficult to achieve were the game shackled to a console that is even less powerful than the PS4.