FFXIV on the Vita?

[Phe]

hmm. i just read an interesting idea in a comment on the new alpha video.

would it be possible to use the PsVita as a controller for the PS3 version?
it probably would make fighting much easier when the players could use the commands right from the touchscreen

[Zantetsuken]

The more I think about this, the more it makes sense for Sony to help fund a port FFXIV for PSVita.

It would certainly benefit Sony and the PSVita in the long-term to have the latest flagship Final Fantasy game on the system AND one of the best MMOs as well~

Sony would get the sales proceeds from the vita copies of the game, (as well as memory cards and other associated stuff) and SE gets the subscription fees.

Then again, since Sony has taken a 50% hit to their stock value over the last year, they may not be willing (or able) to throw money around.

[Shioban]

Yoshi-P said himself that the game is completely scalable but would only consider other platforms such as the Vita if it were a viable market.
From a technological stand-point it is completley possible from a marketing one, I can't see it happening.

[Fensfield]

http://www.gamesradar.com/final-fant...need-buy-vita/

'Anyone linked that interview yet? They've certainly been anything but dismissive of the platform, even if the near future is unlikely.

Really though, if v2.0's as scalable as they claim then I'd love to be able to play on my Vita, but even failing that, that app they said they'd make will be nice, as would supplemental support for the PS3 version.

[Abriael]

hmm. i just read an interesting idea in a comment on the new alpha video.

would it be possible to use the PsVita as a controller for the PS3 version?
it probably would make fighting much easier when the players could use the commands right from the touchscreen

Yes, the Vita can be used as a controller for PS3 games if the developers of the game integrate the feature.

[Phe]

is there a touchscreen gamepad for PC as well?
i googled but didn't find anything.

[Fensfield]

is there a touchscreen gamepad for PC as well?
i googled but didn't find anything.

Microsoft's Surface thingy can play the touchscreen pad to the XBox, and it certainly talks to other Windows machines..

Can it fill that role?

[Phe]

no i mean something like PsVita or WiiU controller - just for PC.
but i suppose there have to be games first that actually would use those features.

Dear Yoshi-P-sama can you call Logitech to develop such a thing while assuring support for FFXIV? =o

[Abriael]

no i mean something like PsVita or WiiU controller - just for PC.
but i suppose there have to be games first that actually would use those features.

Dear Yoshi-P-sama can you call Logitech to develop such a thing while assuring support for FFXIV? =o

It's probably just a matter of software, any tablet can technically do something like that, given the right software.

[Phe]

i was thinking of something with actual buttons and analog sticks and touchscreen.
the new archos gamepad might do it then with the right software.


this could offer a really good kind of controlling instead of smashing F-buttons and Alt/Strg macros.
imagine a WHM just touch the cure command and the party member in the list.

and: it would be something other MMO's don't have.