Consoles are consoles, PC's are PC's, both have their uses and can/can't do's so really there is no comparison. The PS4 was announced to be released in "holiday 2013"... what that means nobody knows but it is 2013 and although they can delay that they would lose a lot of interest and that's not in their best interest. If you want clarification on that release date, search Sony 2013 meeting on youtube and check the last few seconds of the vid.

FFXI should stay where it belongs on PS2, PC and xbox 360. If PS2 support is lost then jp complain due to their "jp onry" attitude towards everything including consoles. If it moves onto another console the waiting time for that to happen and the amount of effort needed will be massive and therefore we will have even less dev support and game updates. Just look at how much we're missing out on update-wise due to the new expansion. If they were trying to then improve the game and launch on a new console we would all be complaining about that, as we are now. They cannot win and therefore nobody can. As good as SE are they aren't gods. They can't just fix everything there and then and with a game like this there isn't much point as there is a really big chance ARR is gonna replace FFXI as SE's main income, and lets face it, a company will pour the majority of it's resources in whatever makes more money. Obviously FFXI will never die, as long as they are making a profit above server costs etc then it will keep running and that can't be too expensive in this day and age. My guess is it would have to be down to only 1 server being active and only when that becomes desolate will SE have to shut down FFXI which imo wont happen in a very very long time, long enough even to just ignore that's a possibility.