Yoshi-P says discussions about FFXIV on Switch and Xbox One are "Positive"

[Felis]

Microsoft has extended the olive branch to Sony for cross platform, Sony has denied them seeing as they're on top and have no wish to share with MS. MS did something similar in the 360 era though.

But only if the players still have the option to play on "XBox only" servers, if i remember it right

PS4 and 360 have similar specs, there will be no limitations excuse.

I hope you mean the Xbox One, and not the old XBox 360

[Derio]

I highly doubt this, especially considering both Microsoft and Nintendo have not changed their patch/udpate policy. Nintendo being far worse on their policy. Also last I have heard Microsoft has not stopped requiring Xbox Live to play online MMOs, so that is the nail in the coffin that they need to removed.

Also PS+ has and will always not be required to play FFXIV

[Sebazy]

The switch wouldnt be as limiting as I suspect people think. Remember that the PS3 was hamstrung by it’s 256mb of admitedly very high bandwidth Rambus ram coupled with a seperate 256mb block for the GPU, I can’t even begin to think about how much of a nightmare it must have been to optimise and maintain the FFXIV PS3 client over the years. Whilst the switch undoubtedly can’t match the powerpc cpu of the PS3, its GPU is significantly more modern whilst having 4gb of unified memory puts it at a huge advantage for asset heavy titles like this.

[Catwho]

I assumed they dropped ps3 support for a reason.... I feel like the switch would just create unnecessary limitations for everyone else. Then again, I actually have no clue about switch specs, I'm just assuming it's not too great. Oh well.

The hardware reason was that the PS3 only had 256 megabytes of RAM. It was unable to store anything larger than a single zone in its memory, and things like our mount speed were limited because of the load times from a 5200 RPM platter disk.

In comparison, the Switch has 4GB of RAM, apparently at Capcom's request, because the RE engine needed it.

Edit: Person above beat me to it.

[Shouko]

I don't think Microsoft would pursue FFXIV. Microsoft actually had SE port FFXI to the Xbox 360, as one of the titles that they hoped would improve its reception in Japan. Not only did it not work, the 360 port of FFXI was horrid, with hi-res models but massive slowdown you didn't even have on the PS2.

I think SE will probably just go PC only after a few more expansions.

The XI port wasn't all that bad and it didn't help because it was 10 years by that point, the game was already pretty much dead and the console itself was way past it's prime.

If Nintendo wants it back on their system they will get it back, they started off with the FF series back in the late 80s and 90s.

SE won't be giving up that revenue so quick, look at how long it took for the PS3 support to be dropped, with the PS5 on the horizon and whatnot it's safe to assume SE will continue to port it to the next generation of consoles as long as there's money to be made.

But only if the players still have the option to play on "XBox only" servers, if i remember it right

Possibly but it's not like either company is willing to settle both are giants in their own right and refuse to work with each other for the benefit of gamers in general.

[Gemina]

I think SE will probably just go PC only after a few more expansions.

I agree with Shouko. They're not going to kill a goose that lays golden eggs anytime soon. PC-only would not be in their best interest when there are so many console subscribers.

[New_Game_Plus]

Wait. They're thinking about putting that on the switch? Didn't we just get rid of PS3 limitations?

[Iromi]

I see a lot of people claiming MS said that you have to have a paid Live account to log in..where did they say this, if anyone has a link would be appreciated!

[Mature]

The real block here is Microsoft follow article below:

https://www.polygon.com/e3/2016/6/17...rosoft-e3-2016

[alimdia]

I see a lot of people claiming MS said that you have to have a paid Live account to log in..where did they say this, if anyone has a link would be appreciated!

Live is currently required for all other current multiplayer and MMOs games accessible through Xbox.