Why no Xbox?

[filexcl]

Xbox 360: https://www.vg247.com/2010/06/24/squ...e-environment/

[Hikuras]

It's all pointless anyway seeing as it's not sony who's holding FFXIV back on this. Seeing as how we can already play with PC users. It's XBOX that has to get with the program and allow their users to play with everyone else. But with the way XBL works I dunno. I think Kosmos says it all perfectly more sound then I could.

[Synrin]

What's going on with all these walls of text?

[Kosmos992k]

What's going on with all these walls of text?

Read them and see.

[Mature]

What's going on with all these walls of text?

People got too much time on their hands.

Taken from Polygon:

"Microsoft actually approached the Final Fantasy 14 team about the cross-platform opportunity," Yoshida told Polygon. "When our team reviewed the regulations that are associated with that, we realized that Microsoft may not have the experience or understanding of running an MMORPG as an online game genre just yet. The Final Fantasy 14 team has fed back to Microsoft that there are certain elements of its regulations that we would have to consider waived. We're waiting on Microsoft's response for that, but we are having discussions."

[LalaRu]

We can do any war of reasoning here, but the cold answer to the topic is "because the parts didn't reach legal terms agreement". RIP.

[era1Ne]

We can do any war of reasoning here, but the cold answer to the topic is "because the parts didn't reach legal terms agreement". RIP.

While this is true imo for the Microsoft situations, i would really like to get a (new) comment from either Yoshi or Nintendo about the switch, since in the past Nintendo was open about cross network play in some cases. https://www.vg247.com/2013/10/13/nin...nsoles-report/ (also a good read for Kosmos, cause they talk about Sony for a moment)

[Felis]

While this is true imo for the Microsoft situations, i would really like to get a (new) comment from either Yoshi or Nintendo about the switch, since in the past Nintendo was open about cross network play in some cases.

Is the Switch strong enough for the minimum system requirements? Will be there enough free room for later increasements of the minimum requirements or will the Switch get dropped in 4 years like with the PS3?

[era1Ne]

Is the Switch strong enough for the minimum system requirements? Will be there enough free room for later increasements of the minimum requirements or will the Switch get dropped in 4 years like with the PS3?

I can't really answer the questions, because you can't really compare the minimum system requirements for pc with the console. For instance the PC minimum specs uses an much stronger cpu then even the ps4 or xbox one have imo and i can't possibly know if the switch would be to weak for ff14 in 4 years, because i do NOT work at Square and know their plans for the game. Maybe they increase the specs again for 5.0 or 6.0. Who knows. But in my opinion we have to be careful about the ps3 situation, because not everything some ff14 fans blamed the console for was her fault. We just have to look at the america data center news in which Square stated that the inventory can be increased with the move to the new data center as one example. Which means imo the old data center and not the ps3 were to blame for this restriction.

[Kosmos992k]

Is the Switch strong enough for the minimum system requirements? Will be there enough free room for later increasements of the minimum requirements or will the Switch get dropped in 4 years like with the PS3?

Switch is not strong enough. Switch is, on it's best day, with the benefit of a tail wind and a downhill slope, almost as good as a PS3 was in terms of pure computing power. If SE shoehorn FFXIV onto Switch, we exchange one set of console limitations for another. Switch has more memory than PS3 ever thought of having, but it's CPU/GPU is not particularly spectacular in performance terms. the big number people like to quote about it's GPU capability is for half precision (aka 16-bit) floating point. Half precision FP operations can be used in many circumstances, but really, it's a dishonest way to measure a GPU because half precision is not the primary type of computation that is performed by games on GPUs.

Ultimately, Switch is a tablet pretending to be a console, when it's actually more closely related to the Nvidia Shield which has better clocks and memory.