seems Sony has interest in tablets as-well, Sony Xperia Z tablet announced with HD display and quad-core processor http://bgr.com/2013/01/21/sony-xperi...-specs-299653/ fingers crossed!![]()
seems Sony has interest in tablets as-well, Sony Xperia Z tablet announced with HD display and quad-core processor http://bgr.com/2013/01/21/sony-xperi...-specs-299653/ fingers crossed!![]()
Speaking from a developers point-of-view.
This is completley possible, FFXIV:ARR could run on a PS-Vita and your average high-end tablets, however this isn't the issue that a company like Square Enix is looking it.
The main problem is marketing, the Playstation 3 is a safe-bet, and by that I mean each customer will have the same set of hardware, an established brand with 70 million consoles sold world-wide.
Now for Tegra tablets world-wide, the number is scattered, the Tablet market varies very heavily with hardware ranging from "Can't run angry birds to", "FFXIV potential".
Other questions arise:
"Will people buy the game thinking their tablet will run it when it doesn't?"
"Will touch-screen controls work sufficiently for an MMO?"
"How much time/money for development will we need to scale the game for various sets of tablet hardware?"
"Will people be willing to pay $30-50 for the base game and $10 a month subscription for a game on their tablet?"
I do see your idea, and it makes sense...but it'll never happen.
EDIT :
If and only "IF" there was a sudden boom across the US,EU,JP world of tablets with a sufficient APU for playing games like this would I think Square Enix would even consider throwing a single decimal of Yen towards such a thing.
My marketing mind says "NO NO"
But my developers mind says "Holy poops, this would be AWESOME to try out on a tablet"
Last edited by Shioban; 01-31-2013 at 12:34 PM.
Well, I don't see them having a reason to bother with arm or tegra chips currently. This is because of the potential of windows 8 tablets (NOT RT) in the near future. As we have seen with surface pro and ativ smart pc (samsung) these tablets already have a core i5 in it and mainly lack graphics power. I know the processor isn't amazing,due to it being the low end, and ram, right now, could easily be made better. The thing is that these specs will surely improve over time and SE will not have to invest any of their own money for this to happen.
If whatever you're shooting doesn't die after you pump 8, 32 caliber, slugs into it, it's probably a dragon.
Something not unrelated to FFX|V but here Valve tried DotA2 on Tablets
so basicly for now is not good enough "yet".
Maybe not yet but at the rate technology is evolving at, i'm sure it will be on devices similar to tablets in the future, Take a look at the current Vaio Ultra book, which is a fusion of a tablet and notebook and runs on i7 cpu. There are already some videos of FFXI running on tablets, doubt they thought that was possible when they released FFXI more then 10 years ago.
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