Yoshi-P says discussions about FFXIV on Switch and Xbox One are "Positive"

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

MS is actually very open nowadays to Crossplat, it's sony that doesn't like it.

They are open to crossplat on /their/ terms, which is why XIV still isn't on their console.

[SicariusSeven]

I think we're really only going to get true cross play is if one company finally buys out the other one. Like if one day Gaben went mad with power and had steam buy everything. Everything on Steam. Imagine the horror of it all.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

I don't know about this. It would open the door to a lot of crap between consoles, as in certain things can't be done because one console can't handle/don't want it on their system.

[Maero]

Last I heard, MS was OK with windows/xbox cross platform, but was still totally not OK with the idea of xbox players interacting with playstation players. A difference from their originally stance of no crossplay at all, but still not quite on FFXIV's level.

Has this changed?

It has not changed, MS still want their own servers, lol

[Barvaduke]

I think a switch version would be kind of cool. Not the full game mind you. I would enjoy a mini game/app that you can use for the auctions, retainers and all the gathering and crafting jobs were you don’t have to do much or go anywhere. I do this now using remote play in bed with the PS Vita but it would be nice to have a dedicated app on a slightly bigger screen I.e. the switch in handheld mode!!

[Brightshadow]

I think a switch version would be kind of cool. Not the full game mind you. I would enjoy a mini game/app that you can use for the auctions, retainers and all the gathering and crafting jobs were you don’t have to do much or go anywhere. I do this now using remote play in bed with the PS Vita but it would be nice to have a dedicated app on a slightly bigger screen I.e. the switch in handheld mode!!

This is a 2014 game I'm sure the Nintendo Switch can handle it. And if SE wants they can wait for next year when Nintendo Surely releases a pro version of their switch.

Either way chances are that the next expansion will come sometime around july - october 2019

So by then a new more powerful Nintendo Switch might be released.

[ko_]

Honestly I hope they phase consoles out completely....Yes I am selfish but I wonder what FFXIV could truly be if they didn't have to deal with the console limitations to begin with.

I think this game would actually die if that happened. Killing console support is pretty much killing more than half of your playerbase.. and WHY would you do that? If anything I say FFXIV needs MORE of us console people. Platform shouldn't matter. The only thing that should is making the game the best it can be for EVERYONE. Hell they tried the PC only route.. look what happened to THAT version of the game. - hint hardly anyone could play it and it died.-

[bass9020]

I think this game would actually die if that happened. Killing console support is pretty much killing more than half of your playerbase.. and WHY would you do that? If anything I say FFXIV needs MORE of us console people. Platform shouldn't matter. The only thing that should is making the game the best it can be for EVERYONE. Hell they tried the PC only route.. look what happened to THAT version of the game. - hint hardly anyone could play it and it died.-

If a console hinders the overall quality and development of the game is it really fair to allow it on said console? Even if it brings in more players why is it ok to make others who play on PC or ps4 to not have certain features or upgrades. Its bad enough PC players now cant even have certain graphical options because it isnt fair to other platform players. It really comes down to greed so we will see what happens.

[Sigma-Astra]

Well, is it fair to expect everyone that owns it and plays it on a console to just suddenly be able to afford a second, custom PC with a high-end graphics card and processor to run XIV flawlessly...? Not everyone can afford one or even two high-end PC's in their household, they're not exactly cheap to build, and buying the defaults at places like Best Buy or something just don't cut it when they have crappy, factory standard everything that barely, just barely, gives you enough "oomph" to get the thing to boot up.

Not to mention all of those "additional" bloatware they install, ugh, I hate that. I spent a good few minutes just getting rid of the unnecessary garbage when I bought a factory standard Toshiba laptop for college quite a few years ago.

[Deceptus]

The switch can't handle PS4 games at full resolution.

The last thing this game needs is another excuse of "Switch limitations".