PlayStation 3 version: Why Bother?

[Pseudopsia]

I heard someone said PS4 is going to use a Vita-like CPU, if a port can be working like the Vita, it should be cheaper and easier for developers. Cell processor costs them too expensive though.

For the PS4 CPU to be like the vita CPU it will have to have the ARM instruction set. Right now ARM CPUs are low powered and slower. I don't know much details of the PS4, looks like I'll have to go hunting.

[Zehira]

It's AMD A10 I think.

[Pseudopsia]

It's AMD A10 I think.

That's x86 APU (GPU+CPU), very different than Vita. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony adds a ARM coprocessor to run vita games on PS4.

[Zehira]

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony adds a ARM co processor to run vita games on PS4.

I don't think they want to do that, yet want you to buy both. lol

Thanks for the info.

[Pseudopsia]

Other alternative is an emulator, like what they did with PS3 to run PS1 games.

[Zehira]

Rumors said it probably won't play PS3 games again.

[Pseudopsia]

You're probably right, Sony being cheap.

Edit: Took a look at the rumors; pretty much as you said. I'm a little disappointed with the rumored specs.

[ArkhamNative]

I wouldn't rule out the XBox 360/720 either. It was the old development team who couldn't reach an agreement with Microsoft. The new team may be able to.

It's not just SE or FF14 Team 1.0. Others have announced MMOs for Xbox. Two I know of that had been advertised for simultaneous PC release then canceled within a month of PC launch: Conan and Champions Online. SE actually posted in 2010 they might consider the Xbox only if Microsoft adopted more reasonable policies. Forum speculation was that maybe MS wanted to restrict to Xbox-only servers, perhaps located at MS data centers, or even a cut of the monthly fee.

Someone else mentioned Mac OS X.
It would be much easier to port to Mac than anything else. BlueGartr even posted instructions for getting version 1 running via Wine, which worked fairly well. And SE can use the professional Cider by TransGaming. Just wrap, debug, and ship.

I understand and respect that SE's priority has to be to PC and PS3 first. But with WoW having launched with a Mac version, and now even Guild Wars 2 has a Mac version, they may want consider a Mac port sooner rather than later, if they haven't already.

[Malakii]

Pretty simple and Yoshi - P has already commented on this. I will try to find it again, but the short story behind it is this. Yes, PS4 will probably coming out soon. The player base that own a PS4 tho as soon as it comes out will be very small for them to make the game ready for it. PS3 has been out forever and a lot of people own them now. So that is a wider base of players that maybe do not have the money to pay for a laptop or a decent computer. They are trying to make the game accessible for many players to access when it comes out. He also said he does have plans to take it on to the ps4, but it would be not make much sense to release it as a ps4 game because of such a small player base. Although his number 1 goal is bringing players back to the game and regain the player base trust in SE.

[Punainen]

'Cause it allows a wider audience. Not everyone has a great PC, and some people just don't like playing on a PC. ...And SOME people don't own a PC at all (such as mac owners).