FFXIV on the Vita?

[xXHalloweenTrixXx]

If they want Vita to pick up in sales, I would think applying FF14 ARR to its list of titles would make it dominate any other handheld out there today. It would also bring in more money to SE for FF14 sales, honestly the more platforms SE can bring FF14 to, the more money they would be swimming in. There's hardly any great mmorpgs out there today on consoles to begin with.

[Valmonte]

If they want Vita to pick up in sales, I would think applying FF14 ARR to its list of titles would make it dominate any other handheld out there today. It would also bring in more money to SE for FF14 sales, honestly the more platforms SE can bring FF14 to, the more money they would be swimming in. There's hardly any great mmorpgs out there today on consoles to begin with.

this isn't true at all the PS3 is swimming in many RPG series, the 360 trailing in second, with the wii being in last. now RPG's on the portables is vastly different the DS and 3DS have the lead here, while the Vita is pretty much all shit ports of shooters...or sports, its RPG's come from PS1 Classics and a hand full of Sony chosen PSP titles.

[Valmonte]

Your absolutely right. However there is still a memory limitation to the amount of characters that can be visible on the screen at one time. PS3 can handle this fine, however the Vita may not because it's memory limitations are even more extreme. Plus your limiting the bandwidth pipeline to wireless ONLY. That could be troublesome if you happen to be in a unreliable wireless network. Which are notorious for high latency and disconnects on MMO's.

I like your idea, and your right there is no reason why it wouldn't work. However I'm not sure the potential audience on the Vita since it is still fairly new is worth the investment and trouble for Square Enix. I assure you they will be very cautious after FFXIV launch flop on any other risky development adventures!

It would be better if they developed for the PS4.

However Yoshida, had hinted in the past about potential mobile solutions. Like LS chat, Auction House management, Character transfer/changes, etc... couldn't think of anymore possibilities.

The Vita has more system memory than the PS3 @ 512MB while it does have less VRam @128MB. this is not an issue as your not driving 1920x1080 display. 128MB VRam is fine maybe even overkill for a 960 × 544 Display.

[Linkurrra]

The Vita has more system memory than the PS3 @ 512MB while it does have less VRam @128MB. this is not an issue as your not driving 1920x1080 display. 128MB VRam is fine maybe even overkill for a 960 × 544 Display.

Ah, been awhile since I looked at Vita specs, and I don't own one. Thanks for the info. Regardless, I was thinking about it and I suppose they would just apply more aggressive Level of Detail models to the game to handle the increase of players and mitigate the memory limitations.

[Meatdawg]

With windows 8 touch screen ideas and demos being tossed around by Yoshi I think the vita would be perfect. The vita can also handle streaming the game off your ps3 if it had too, i just see this as an awesome idea.

[Kirito]

The screen of the vita is a bit small to easily press the buttons on the screen... I think the vita should be more of a controller rather than a player in itself... plus there was an interview before where yoshida did say he has no plans on the vita release...

[lucytestarossa]

well i found this in youtube :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvz7LUIxmA

[Zantetsuken]

The screen of the vita is a bit small to easily press the buttons on the screen... I think the vita should be more of a controller rather than a player in itself... plus there was an interview before where yoshida did say he has no plans on the vita release...

Yoshi-P said it was definitely possible to port the game to the Vita, but he said there would have to be more Vita users in order to make the port worth the investment.

So it can be done, it's just a matter of economics.

As Microsoft is contributing to developing the touchscreen functionality for Windows 8 (for cross-promotional purposes), Sony could also invest in supporting a PSVita port for the same reasons.

Perhaps this is what is happening~

[Abriael]

well i found this in youtube :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvz7LUIxmA

Yeah it used to work. Don't bother trying now, as the system now requires purchasing a developer license to work.

The screen of the vita is a bit small to easily press the buttons on the screen...

That's why interfaces get rescaled depending on platform.

[Meatdawg]

well i found this in youtube :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvz7LUIxmA

They are just using remote desktop to play off the computer which with homebrew I believe you could steam the ps3 release right onto the vita and just play the ps3 version.

I could see myself playing the ps3 version steamed but unless the pc version was optimized it would be too buggy i think to use remote desk top.