FFXIV 2.0. for Xbox360 or even Wii U?

[Atheena]

don't really care about console MMO's too much limitation! I'll just stick with my PC's for online High Graphics gaming! Doubt FFXIV will go to XBOX unless M$ changes their closed system policy. WII U might happen but definitely wont happen until a few years after the PS3 release! This system may have the power and sold more units last gen (if u call the wii last gen), but the fact remains Nintendo is a casual market, and doubt it will sell well on the WII.

[Gramul]

don't really care about console MMO's too much limitation! I'll just stick with my PC's for online High Graphics gaming! Doubt FFXIV will go to XBOX unless M$ changes their closed system policy. WII U might happen but definitely wont happen until a few years after the PS3 release! This system may have the power and sold more units last gen (if u call the wii last gen), but the fact remains Nintendo is a casual market, and doubt it will sell well on the WII.

That's kinda why they let the more core 3rd parties have room this E3 to talk.

Unfortunately they only wanted to talk about their upgraded ports.

Also, change the stupid name Nintendo, you're only going to confuse people.

[DemonForest]

1. Graphcis aren't everything and XIV already looks better than most of the MMOs on the market, Tera only looks good because it's bright and colorful, which is scientifically proven to catch most people's eyes first.
2. XIV's graphics are scalable with PC always being able to put out the best, this is the whole purpose of the new engine and client.



Remember: Graphics doesn't define the game unless that'sall it has going for it. Otherwise we would have never gotten past 8-bit era since the graphics were primitive so logically, developers shouldn't have produced games on consoles till the console makers got to the 16 bit+ era, no? If graphical capabilities is the determining factor of whether a game should exist somewhere then we have no need to keep producing games on current gen systems and wait for the 720/PS4/Wii-U.

You miss the point. It is not about the graphics. It is about the limits of the machines. SE never upgraded XI (and thus port it to more systems) because of the limitations of the machines it was already on. The flat out stated that XI was not getting improvements because the PS2 was already maxed out. This limited 360 players to PS2 level of graphics and stalled the market growth. With FFXIV's new engine there is going to be every chance that they could port to other game consoles since it is scalable. However Unless they designed it to grow a certain way, AND the servers to accept players at different versions of the engine (ones designed for each of the various console) instead of cramming all players into the same bottle, there will be no ports. That was the point of my post. It is not about who has the shinnier system, but can it be CODED to be flexible enough that each system regardless of limitations be used.

[Lienn]

You miss the point. It is not about the graphics. It is about the limits of the machines. SE never upgraded XI (and thus port it to more systems) because of the limitations of the machines it was already on. The flat out stated that XI was not getting improvements because the PS2 was already maxed out. This limited 360 players to PS2 level of graphics and stalled the market growth. With FFXIV's new engine there is going to be every chance that they could port to other game consoles since it is scalable. However Unless they designed it to grow a certain way, AND the servers to accept players at different versions of the engine (ones designed for each of the various console) instead of cramming all players into the same bottle, there will be no ports. That was the point of my post. It is not about who has the shinnier system, but can it be CODED to be flexible enough that each system regardless of limitations be used.

This is going to change very soon tho. They already started developing FFXI upgrades that are accessible only to PC users so over time each console and PC will have different features, UI and graphics based on hardware performance.

I must say i'm dying to know what "Project XI" is all about...it will be presented at Vanafest (in 2 weeks) and i do would expect from graphic upgrades to PC version and PS3 porting (since PS2 is already at its limit and it was already discontinued in Japan) to even a real expansion.

[Scherwiz]

don't really care about console MMO's too much limitation! I'll just stick with my PC's for online High Graphics gaming! Doubt FFXIV will go to XBOX unless M$ changes their closed system policy. WII U might happen but definitely wont happen until a few years after the PS3 release! This system may have the power and sold more units last gen (if u call the wii last gen), but the fact remains Nintendo is a casual market, and doubt it will sell well on the WII.

I hope you have your teeth prepared to bite your tongue, because you should never ever count out Nintendo. Staying on subject though, it is not quite clear if DQX is an MMO or something like Monster Hunter. I wonder if SE would want 2 MMO's (if DQX is) on the same console? In the case of XIV being on wiiU that is.

[Amherst]

Staying on subject though, it is not quite clear if DQX is an MMO or something like Monster Hunter.

Have you played DQIX? From what I've heard it's similar to that; an extremely deep RPG with the option for multiplayer battles/exploration at virtually any point in the game. The only real difference that I've noticed is that the online functionality makes opportunities for multiplayer much more common, as well as trading and such.

So yeah, my money is on something like Monster Hunter. I doubt we'll see any real sizable updates for it, aside from disc-locked content being given out periodically. Which brings me to...

Why is everony just talking about the xbox? i think the Wii U has also the potential.

It certainly is powerful enough. If PS3 will be able to run it then the Wii U will, that's just a fact. The real issue is going to be storage since, once again, Nintendo decided to go with a minor amount of flash memory as opposed to an actual hard drive. Granted that never really stopped SE from getting FFXI on PS2. An external hard drive is always possible.

[Gramul]

It certainly is powerful enough. If PS3 will be able to run it then the Wii U will, that's just a fact. The real issue is going to be storage since, once again, Nintendo decided to go with a minor amount of flash memory as opposed to an actual hard drive. Granted that never really stopped SE from getting FFXI on PS2. An external hard drive is always possible.

It's funny you mentioned DQX and then brought up the issue of low storage on the Wii/WiiU. As far as I understand it, you need some sort of external HD to play it. I'd assume the same would be true for XIV.