According to Square Enix employee Yuuki Akama's LinkedIn profile, Final Fantasy XIV is in development for Xbox 360 on top of its already confirmed PC and PlayStation 3 iterations.
Though not an official announcement by any means, this information is hardly surprising considering Square Enix's comments on the title at last year's E3, hinting that the game could indeed show up on any console.
Since Square Enix and probably Microsoft would rather you hear about this apparently big news from them officially, the LinkedIn profile has been hastily removed, so we'll go ahead and label this one with a trusty RUMOR tag.
Just try to act surprised when someone makes a big deal out of the official reveal.
Final Fantasy XIV has been announced for release sometime this year for PC and PlayStation 3.
Sometimes you want to play video games with other people. That's cool. I can understand that.
Sometimes, however, you want to play video games with other people that you don't know and can't see. This is a concept I have a harder time understanding, but with something like half the world's population playing World of Warcraft, odds are good that you do.
And Square Enix would like a(nother) piece of that pie, thank you.
So watch the trailer for their newest MMO entry, Final Fantasy XIV, and get excited to hang out with people you don't actually know!
Final Fantasy XIV will be available for PC and PlayStation 3 sometime next year.
Square Enix held a short, un-publicized press conference yesterday at E3, only to talk about the just announced Final Fantasy XIV. As the recently opened official site reports, the game is indeed an MMO and is planned for a simultaneous world-wide release next year on PC and PlayStation 3.
The very short, very focused conference was devoted almost exclusively to answering questions the press had about the game, most of which ended up being about Final Fantasy XI and how the two will support each other. Suffice it to say that FFXI will continue to be supported, and FFXIV is not set in the same universe, though some of the races resemble FFXI counterparts.
What was perhaps the most interesting bit to come from the meeting, however, was Square Enix's confirmation that the game is not at all exclusive to PS3, and that all platforms, "including Microsoft's," are being considered.
This is, of course, not a confirmation of FFXIV on 360, but it sure makes Sony's "exclusively on PlayStation 3" announcement on Tuesday look foolish. I guess they were going for shock factor over fact.
Ugh, I hate how worked up people get over Final Fantasy.
P.S. I've also attached the game's debut teaser that was shown at Sony's presser. Just in case you haven't seen it yet.
The newly launched site also features the new trailer as shown at the Sony presser, which I will post here when a decent embeddable version appears on the internets.
Other interesting details from the site confirm that many of the key personnel from Final Fantasy XI will be invlovled in the game's production, as will Final Fantasy soundtrack veteran (and independant composer) Nobuo Uematsu.
I guess Tretton must have meant to say "it won't be on Xbox 360 next year."
The PlayStation 3's RPG lineup is starting to look decent this year with several interesting (if obscure) exclusives making their way across the pacific. Not least of which is Sony's own White Knight Chronicles.
However, as predicted, Sony doesn't actually care about White Knight Chronicles, giving it only a few brief seconds during one of their many many montages throughout the event. Sad times.
What Sony does care about is Square Enix's Final Fantasy, and they took several opportunities to remind you and I that Final Fantasy is totally on PlayStation 3.
Their first Final Fantasy name drop came with the announcement of Final Fantasy VII becoming available for download via the PlayStation Network starting today. They mentioned that they have 50 other PS1 classics that will be following it, but didn't mention what any of them are. Hopefully there will be some more RPGs?
Later during their conference, they gave us a look at a brand new, full-length, full English Final Fantasy XIII trailer, which not only gave us a better look at the game's story, but also briefly introduced a new character who we assume to be playable. I will post it soon.
However, the big Final Fantasy announcement for Sony was that the next next next FF installment, Final Fantasy XIV, will be coming to exclusively to PlayStation 3 in 2010.
Though the trailer shown was short and generally uninformative of what to expect from the game, it was revealed that the game will be an "Online" title, similar, it seems, to Final Fantasy XI.
Since Square Enix originally claimed that their next MMO would be on PC and Xbox 360, Sony's announcement of FFXIV as exclusive is suspect, especially with the "exclusively to PlayStation 3 in 2010" part, which may be indicative of a timed exclusive.
We will await further details, but it was made clear that FFXIV will be on PS3 next year. So yeah.
Unfortunately, there was no news of any other RPGs.
According to Square Enix employee Yuuki Akama's LinkedIn profile, Final Fantasy XIV is in development for Xbox 360 on top of its already confirmed PC and PlayStation 3 iterations.
