FFXI is a good game, and I enjoyed playing it on launch day for PC way back in October of 2004. Picked it up a few times after that again... but still its not huge game. It took far too much time to find a party and get going to play, you had to have at least 3 hours at a time to play the game...

FFXIV looks like FFXI only in HD. Good thing I have a PC to play it on should I choose to. But I don't think it is a major announcement like many are saying. They need more info about the game out and then we can see.

Also I don't know how the FFXI community is counted, the 2 million listed above might include people with multiple accounts and multiple characters for each account. How many characters counted might be mules? 2 million sounds feasible, but I don't know...

Hmm...there is a pc release right?

FF online has 2 million paying customers...holee shit! I thought it had like 20K...well...it looks like a good deal for PS3 to get this exclusive.

Crossplatform or no?

I Wonder How Much $ony Paid For It.

No the two new Mario games are easily the biggest games announced at the E3, they will easily outsell FF XIV (which is not even a exclusive, right?, there will be PC version).

Halo Reach is definately bigger then this

FFXIV is a PS3 Console Exclusive, but PC players will also get to play. I imagine your going to need a kick ass PC though.

@mrstickball

I say this again

PS3 has many more people online than PS2 did......MMO's have become even larger since FF11

FF11 xbox 360 sales were disappointing as it was a rehashed PS2 game

this will be a new MMO, hyped to hell released ina market that games online MUCH MUCH MORE....

please don't tell me PS2 had more people playing online games that PS3 does.....because it didn't

thats the main difference

I think people imagine that the crossover between the "main" FF audience and the "online" FF audience is larger than it actually is. I own or have played versions of every single main series FF game besides XI (sometimes multiple versions), but I have never played XI and never intend to. FFXIV holds absolutely no interest for me, and it's likely that many other FF fans feel similarly.

Anyone notice that Nobuo Uematsu is making the music for FFXIV!? NOICE!