Request: PS5 compatibility Questions

[Karatecatgrl]

Will FFXIV be compatible with the PS5?
Will FFXIV be able to be upgraded from ps4 to ps5 digital?

[VenKitsune]

We have no idea on either at the moment, but it can be assumed that the game will atleast be ported over to PS5. No guarantee on a free upgrade - The main reason they did it for PS3 to PS4 is because the new expansions litterally would not work on PS3, ARR barely worked at 20fps on it so the larger areas that were required to make flying a necessity simply wouldnt run... or rather, they did, as i recall PS3 being dropped on stormblood, not HW, i cant remember...but yea. I doubt we'll see as big a technological gap between PS4 and PS5 as we saw between PS3 and PS4 for ff14

[ForctyusGold]

i think we got fully upgrade with Stormblood 4.0 so im expeting leaving fully ps4 with 6.0 , it might be from launch however but dunno, cant say if that version will be really better than ps4 one , but in future of course

[wereotter]

We have no idea on either at the moment, but it can be assumed that the game will atleast be ported over to PS5. No guarantee on a free upgrade - The main reason they did it for PS3 to PS4 is because the new expansions litterally would not work on PS3, ARR barely worked at 20fps on it so the larger areas that were required to make flying a necessity simply wouldnt run... or rather, they did, as i recall PS3 being dropped on stormblood, not HW, i cant remember...but yea. I doubt we'll see as big a technological gap between PS4 and PS5 as we saw between PS3 and PS4 for ff14

Playstation 3 support was dropped in 2017 and Heavensward launched in 2015, so the larger zones and flying were able to be handled by the console.


As far as the new console, there's nothing to know as of this point. Sony is currently still testing games to see which games do and do not work, but they expect the "overwhelming majority" of games to function on the new console, and that games you already downloaded can be downloaded again onto the new console. So assuming that FFXIV functions on it, there's a good reason to believe that the game will be able to be downloaded and played without a problem. However, there's also the question of if Square has to do anything on their end to support the new console, which is still also not confirmed.

If a new version of the game is required from Square's end, there's a good reason to believe that existing owners of the game will be able to upgrade free of charge to the new console considering that was an offer made during the transition period from PS3 to PS4. That was, however, a limited time offer to complete the upgrade as I recall. So if you can afford the new console during the time of that promotion (assuming they repeat past behavior) then it would be smart to do it then.

[Hanayumi]

Yeah pretty sure they mentioned ffxiv would be coming to ps5, just not at ps5 launch, its going to be sometime much later. Earliest guess is probably around 6.0 launch but more likely even later than that due to pandemic pushing back a lot of stuff.

[Sove92]

i think we got fully upgrade with Stormblood 4.0 so im expeting leaving fully ps4 with 6.0 , it might be from launch however but dunno, cant say if that version will be really better than ps4 one , but in future of course

Very unlikely. PS3's biggest limitation was its RAM and the game doesn't come anywhere near using the maximum RAM the PS4 allows for developers. The removal of PS3 support allowed for example, additional UI elements, we would not have things like Esuna bars for cleansable debuffs or Job gauges if PS3 support was still a thing.

An educated guess is saying that the thing that eventually kills PS4 support for this game will be the lack of vendor support combined with a lack of playerbase from the platform, not any technical detail with the console specs. This will not happen in years to come. The current minimum requirements for the game are something like an office laptop and the PS4 is way ahead in specs compared to those.

[lolicon09]

i think we got fully upgrade with Stormblood 4.0 so im expeting leaving fully ps4 with 6.0 , it might be from launch however but dunno, cant say if that version will be really better than ps4 one , but in future of course

PS4 can still do just fine for this game. If anything, is the PC version the one holding it back since they want it to be playable on as much devices as posible, which means low min system requirements.


Also, the PS3 version was pretty much mandatory for them to release. The game was literally announced in a Sony conference for that console, alonside FFXIII. And, when the PC version was finally released, they kept delaying the PS3 version, again, and again, and again, until it got shut down. They didn't had any choice, especially if they wanted to clean the disaster they made and also get as much players as posible with all the distrust they got

[DynnDiablos]

They said 99% of PS4 games are backwards compatible so unless Square Enix purposefully makes the game unavailable through BC it should be ok

[Shahi]

Squenix should say something... i don't wanna pre order the ps5 if i can't play this game on it... so now i don't know what to do. Pre order or not?

[KadaRemnant]

Squenix should say something... i don't wanna pre order the ps5 if i can't play this game on it... so now i don't know what to do. Pre order or not?

To be honest, i bought ps4 pro because i thought that buying ps5 on launch... Well look at ps4 at launch, it got issues and it got better with 2nd gen and pro so for me i stay on ps4 pro until ffxiv is not supported buy ps4 then i will buy ps5 and i might even buy the 2nd gen or ps5 pro when that happens. But it's me, i had issues with my ps4 with fan noise and just 500gb so i decided to buy ps4 pro even tho i know ps5 is coming but ffxiv will stay on ps4 and i have a lot of games lol i'd say wait and buy ps5 when we know it comes or like me wait for 2nd gen or pro xD