FFXIV:ARR PS VITA PS3 remote play

[Firon]

The vast majority of those sales came from preorders and early adopters. It's slowed to a crawl now with not much support, while the 3DS is printing money.

That said, a portable XIV would be nice. I bet a Tegra 3 could easily support a scaled-down version.

Sad thing is the thing that made the first psp sell so well was cause of monster hunter and that has moved to 3ds. When 3g came out for 3ds it sold an extra mil units of that game alone.

[Issachar]

Sad thing is the thing that made the first psp sell so well was cause of monster hunter and that has moved to 3ds. When 3g came out for 3ds it sold an extra mil units of that game alone.

Not to mention the PSP is still outselling the Vita...I think 4:1?...on a weekly basis. You'd think everyone that would have wanted a PSP would have one by now.

[Zenaku]

Not to mention the PSP is still outselling the Vita...I think 4:1?...on a weekly basis. You'd think everyone that would have wanted a PSP would have one by now.

i love a psp just no money for it

[Andrien]

I have a PS Vita. It is one of the best devices I've bought.

A simple FFXIV ARR app will be nice. Text message your free company alliance while on the go, and used as a controller would make a nice peripheral.

Not to mention the PSP is still outselling the Vita...I think 4:1?...on a weekly basis. You'd think everyone that would have wanted a PSP would have one by now.

that is because they're still releasing popular games on it, but this week PS Vita outsold PSP, 171,219 to 77,564. These are vgchartz numbers.

[Felis]

^^^ Like he said, it's not ready for a port yet. I do want one but I am waiting for price drops tho.

Remote Play is not really a port. It stream the PS3 screen to your Vita and the information about buttons pressed on the vita to the PS3. The PS3 still do the main work.

[DoctorMog]

Remote Play is not really a port. It stream the PS3 screen to your Vita and the information about buttons pressed on the vita to the PS3. The PS3 still do the main work.

I'd still buy it.

[Delsus]

I'd still buy it.

If you have used remote play before even doing things on the XMB can get extremely laggy, I have used it to send messages when I was watching TV before, and it lags so much sending a message is really annoying, I would hate to play a game through it.

[xXHalloweenTrixXx]

I'm wondering why people are denying a port. How does a port to vita affect you people who are going to play the PC versions?

I find it funny how people act like they are technology specialists on these forums, and supposedly believe the game cannot be modified for a Vita port or at least for minor gameplay activities (such as gathering, crafting, etc)

Also ARR uses a different engine, as opposed to FF14 of last which was much more demanding on the system, and didn't Yoshida claim the new engine was easily scalable? So why are people acting like they know if the new engine is already doomed to work on a handheld?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

I'm wondering why people are denying a port. How does a port to vita affect you people who are going to play the PC versions?

I find it funny how people act like they are technology specialists on these forums, and supposedly believe the game cannot be modified for a Vita port or at least for minor gameplay activities (such as gathering, crafting, etc)

i did not read such thing as people claims about PS VITA unable to do port.. well only one person. But didnt it was diminish already by YoshiP's recent Nico2 Live stating that is possible to do with the engine or so...?

[Delsus]

I'm wondering why people are denying a port. How does a port to vita affect you people who are going to play the PC versions?

I find it funny how people act like they are technology specialists on these forums, and supposedly believe the game cannot be modified for a Vita port or at least for minor gameplay activities (such as gathering, crafting, etc)

Because Yoshi-P has officially said it will not be happening yet, whilst it is technically possible they need to get it on PS3 before they even think about other devices.

Also there is network problems, the only people I could see using the Vita are people who are out of the house, therefore relying on public hotspots or 3g, which is where this gamesradar interview comes in.

Some slightly concerning news for PS Vita. We sat down with Final Fantasy XIV's producer and director Naoki Yoshida at Gamescom, who told us his game's engine is very scaleable so it can be dialed back to fit lower-spec hardware, which is why it works on PC and PS3. We immediately thought of the other logical low-end platform - PS Vita - and asked how feasible that would be as a platform for an MMO like FFXIV. Here's what he told us:

Naoki Yoshida (via translator): "Technically it'll probably work – you could scale it down and get it running. The problem is that in an MMO one of the most important things is the network and so, you know, if you're in a party with a lot of different people in a raid and someone's on the Vita and they have a very... you know, it's not a stable network connection then you're going to be a nuisance to your party members. So global internet networks need to be better. And then also, just more people need to buy the Vita."

This is why we denying a port it's from Yoshi-P himself.