Quote Originally Posted by PerrinTaveren View Post
Though if there is no positive reason to separate platforms (either for us or the company), why do we discuss it?
There is no positive reason to split a community. The reverse really should be true, where the Xbox and Switch players should be able to play the same game with the same visuals, and unfortunately the weakest system dictates the visuals for the others. Just no port is available because Sony.

Like, imagine if SE decided they would make FFXIV for the iPhone/iPad. The android users would be going "where's mine", and SE would have to go "sorry your platform is too fragmented to support", this is the same reason why we got a bad Mac "port" of the PC version. It would be too expensive to support different versions that fragment. Either you play with a configuration comparable to the weakest system that can be supported, or you just don't bother.

For what it's worth, FFXIV absolutely melted weak GPU's when the DX11 version came out, and there won't be a DX9 version at some point in the future, so those people who don't want to invest in a 1000$ PC may get a better experience from the console version.