If the PS3 chatpad is that annoying(and it looks like it would be), you can just use a USB keyboard. I'm sure a wireless one would be compatible with the system by now if they weren't already.

I would personally love to see a 360 version of the game, as that would guarantee that a bunch of my friends would play the game, but at the same time, MS's Xbox Live policy not only restricts FFXIV(or any other cross platform/region MMO) from being on the system in the first place, but as other posters have mentioned, the 360 version of FFXI constantly got the shaft due to it as well.

Wii U definitely seems like a good way to grab more subscribers(assuming the system takes off as well as Nintendo's hoping), but I worry that Nintendo still hasn't figured out how to get on the internet.