Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn on Wii U? Possibility?

[Abriael]

DO IT YOSHI!

This too!



If Phantasy Star Online 2 can do it...

[Kantide]

I got my Wii U last night and I could totally see this happening. The Wii U is quite a beast and the things they could do with the gamepad would be awesome. Personally, I prefer my eyefinity setup for MMOs but I see no reason why XIV couldn't be done on the new console.

[Endigiont]

I always figured they'd port FFXIV to the next Playstation console, but Wii U? No thank U!

[Aenarion]

This is the best part, it took developers years to even fully harness the power of the PS3 so it will limit games, but not any MMO for years to come and the only way it will limit it is in ways that doesn't truly matter in the long run. "Oh lemme have my flowing cape and seeing thousands of others with it!" How does this affect gameplay? How is this a selling point to an MMO? Consoles usually limit in terms of memory management, which the PS3 has a pretty powerful memory setup even if it's a limited capacity, it's a very solid "small" amount of memory.

Indeed, lots of armchair analysts in here

What's especially hilarious are those talking as if the Wii U's hardware is a behemoth set to demolish the ancient PS3/X360 like a roegadyn stomping a lalafell, throwing out "10x better!!!" as if they have a single shred of, well, anything to back up their claims.

Is the Wii U more powerful? almost certainly, is it substantially more powerful? unlikely. Is it "lololol 10x more powerful"? maybe in their dreams.

[Gramul]

I always figured they'd port FFXIV to the next Playstation console, but Wii U? No thank U!

Why not? Let's port it to anything that can handle it.

[Abriael]

Indeed, lots of armchair analysts in here

Not like you're doing anything much different

All that matters is that the Wii U can run games that are currently on PS3 slightly better, which means that a Wii U port is indeed possible. Considering that a title on a new console is always pretty desirable, visibility-wise, I don't see a single reason why SE shouldn't consider it.

That's really all there's to it. All the rest of the speculation about how much the wii U is more powerful than a PS3 is pretty inconsequential.

[Endigiont]

Why not? Let's port it to anything that can handle it.

Maybe way down the road but it takes a ton of people and resources to port to a totally different console.

[Aenarion]

Not like you're doing anything much different

Never claimed otherwise

All that matters is that the Wii U can run games that are currently on PS3 slightly better, which means that a Wii U port is indeed possible. Considering that a title on a new console is always pretty desirable, visibility-wise, I don't see a single reason why SE shouldn't consider it.

That's really all there's to it. All the rest of the speculation about how much the wii U is more powerful than a PS3 is pretty inconsequential.

More important than anything else is Nintendo's online service infrastructure, is it capable of supporting a cross-platform MMO? does Nintendo even want to? Remember how CCP ended up going with Sony for Dust514 due to MS's reluctance over letting Dust connect to the Eve cluster.

So far, Nintendo Network has failed to impress me, it's too much of a immature product atm. (account tied to a single machine? really Nintendo?")

[Andrien]

update.

According to neogaf it is not even 17 GB/s, separate eDRAM pool, its actually.......12.8gb/s

2GB DDR3 800MHz datarate = 12.8gb/s. According to neogaf

[Abriael]

update.

According to neogaf it is not even 17 GB/s, separate eDRAM pool, its actually.......12.8gb/s

2GB DDR3 800MHz datarate = 12.8gb/s. According to neogaf

You do know that all those technicalities are pretty much irrelevant, right?