SE making a mistake not waiting for ps4?

[Firon]

PS3 70 million + consoles in circulation, PS4 a possible 500k-1m after a few weeks I don't even see why they should waste their time there yet.

[Lirion]

S-E can release on the PS3 AND wait for the PS4. What's stopping them from releasing a PS4 version down the line?

[Zenaku]

Like other said they wont be a big market for PS4 the first 1year or so but once the market is big enough. Porting the FFXIV over to PS4 should be simple unlike FFXI PS2-->PS3 which they said it be so much work it's like making other mmo this is why i guess they made ffxiv for a ps3 port.

So i see FFXIV on PS4 in 1-2years i be it be release with a pack like they did with Xbox.

[VitoScaletta]

Fact is Yoshi P made a deal with Sony, that pretty much /threads it right there. PS4 is a possibility in the future, but making a deal in order to do so is all that matters really.

[Felis]

so, instead of releasing PS3 version this summer they should wait at least 2 years for PS4 (1 year until it come out and another 1 year until enough people bought it) ?

[HiirNoivl]

They can't wait because we'd all turn into maniacs and might turn around and start eating the game we all love once we've run out of nostalgia. They couldn't let the game sit too long.

That said, it'll probably be released for Orbis anyway.

[Zumi]

The leaked PS4 specs say they are going with a lot of off the shelf PC parts for PS4. AMD 8 core cpu and Radeon GPU. Probably be easy to port the PC version to PS4 if they wanted to when PS4 is out.

[kazaran]

Ps4 concepts still remain speculations. Even with announcement this year for the ps4, it probably will not launch till 2014, and the earliest the very end of this year. We know MS has it's next console in the woks as well, as indicated by impressive technology they sucked up. Even thou an announcement is on the horizon, don't expect it soon either.

SE promised a ps3 release, even with it's limitations, they scaled the new engine, got around issues, and will follow through with the promises, and the established market. Waiting a year for a console launch, and longer for it to be established, isn't sensible. They can update it later.

[Hanemakikaze]

Yeah, releasing a game that's already on rocky waters because it's first version on a console which has an unsure future on release sounds quite the smart move for SE to make. I mean that totally doesn't sound like complete nonsense when there's already a very high selling console that they've already put working into playing the game on for years.

[kazaran]

I do have to wonder. If this PS4 spec concept is right. IS sony aware of the new tech rights MS has wit hAMD for the SOC2 design? When they chose an older bulldozer 8 core design? SOCX2 and SOC2 are much faster (on paper) with direct memory access with secondary processor controllers. DDR3 on ps4? SOCx2/SOC2 couldn't even utilize memory that slow.

MAy be while AMD is being silent to sony so they make a buck off them as well and offset old parts.