FFXIV on the Vita?

[ChiefCurrahee]

Isn't the Vita a sinking ship for sony? Totally crumy sales and not a very good enthusiasm over all for the portable?

I don't see a large market for a Vita version.

The money for development is better spent on a a port to the Wii U, Xbox360, and/or next gen PS3/Xbox.

[Rockababy]

Well some people already beat me to my opinion as they always do on these forums but would definitely like to stress how awesome it would be to do the simple stuff on the go such as crafting, buying/selling, mining, ect.

I travel for 2 hours to get to work... and then another 2 hours coming back home. I think that speaks for itself. I would definitely love a fun alternative to sitting on a train by killing some time doing something progressive that I would just waste at home pressing enter while looking at a different computer completely.
We can already remotely control our desktops from our phones from wherever, I'm sure/hope most of you know that. So it's not a question of can or is it being done. I would just like to see a catered version of this dedicated to the game for either smartphone or vita.

Makes sense...

[Majidah]

Well some people already beat me to my opinion as they always do on these forums but would definitely like to stress how awesome it would be to do the simple stuff on the go such as crafting, buying/selling, mining, ect.

yoshi-p said they will release a vita app to do this sort of stuff, AH management.

[Gramul]

Maybe a spinoff game where you play as a goblin going around collecting and selling stuff.

[Andrien]

Isn't the Vita a sinking ship for sony? Totally crumy sales and not a very good enthusiasm over all for the portable?

I don't see a large market for a Vita version.

The money for development is better spent on a a port to the Wii U, Xbox360, and/or next gen PS3/Xbox.

Vita sold very well over the Black Friday sales in NA. The demand is there, people just want to buy it cheaper. This year the highest rated game is on the Vita. P4G

[ChiefCurrahee]

Vita sold very well over the Black Friday sales in NA. The demand is there, people just want to buy it cheaper. This year the highest rated game is on the Vita. P4G

well i wouldn't call moving 160,000 units a huge number. esp when you compare it with other handheld sales.

The install base for Vita is about 2.3 million How much will it cost SE to develop and support a FFXIV version for vita? How many of those 2.3 million users will play FFXIV on a vita? Would the numbers add up to be a success for SE? I don't think they would.

MMO games already focus to an overall smaller gaming community compared to more mainstream games like the CoD games, or GTAs ect. ect. To be successful SE needs to focus their development on areas that have the biggest install base. That is Xbox360 & PS3. Not Vita.

[Rhomagus]

I think it'd be sweet if you could use the Vita with the PS3 version of FFXIV in a limited capacity.

Just throw my micro menu, action bar, mini map, and other UI elements onto the Vita while I play a nearly pristine, UI free, Full Screen PS3 version of ARR on my TV.

I was really hoping they would do this for the release of FFIII on the PSP/Vita as the original DS version utilized the bottom screen for character and battle information.

As stated before, I'd rather not see a direct port of XIV onto the Vita. This would just increase the limitations on the software. Having a remote play option would be nice, but I'd much rather they release FFXIV specfic apps or use it as another screen/controller while playing XIV in Full Screen on your TV.

Doing this with smartphones as well would be awesome too.

I'd love to see this kind of multi-platform approach to ARR.

[Felis]

Isn't the Vita a sinking ship for sony? Totally crumy sales and not a very good enthusiasm over all for the portable?

I don't see a large market for a Vita version.

The money for development is better spent on a a port to the Wii U, Xbox360, and/or next gen PS3/Xbox.

The problem with the Vita is not the Vita, but the little amount of good Vita games. I hope that next year come much more (and good) games for the Vita. And RPG games, Vita need absoluty more rpg games (currently there is only Disgea 3 and soon P4G if you don't count the PSP and PS1 games).
A console can be very good, but if it don't have many games then it has a problem.

[Chardrizard]

It doesnt have alot of games.bc developers doesnt see any prospects in it. The stigma vita has will not change.

[Andrien]

well i wouldn't call moving 160,000 units a huge number. esp when you compare it with other handheld sales.

I've pointed out to you that the demand is there. BF is a valid example for that point.