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sc94597 on 02 June 2009
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Million said:
sc94597 said:
AkibaFan said:
@sc

how about we compare PS2's ONLINE USERBASE to Ps3's ONLINE USERBASE?

How much of that userbase will be willing to pay a monthly subscription? How much of that userbase would play an MMO opposed to a traditional Japanese RPG? What mmos have been succesful, let alone console mmos? If we are going to include factors the one mentioned by you how about we include all of them.


@Zezlar I doubt FFXIV will have the quality Final Fantasy devs when they are working on XIII(the much better, and more important game). Even Versus a spinoff is more important than this.

How much of that userbase wouldn't be willing to pay a monthly subscriptions ? your asking questions neither you or the person your asking could even atempt to answer.

There are hundreds of succesful MMO's on the PC platofrm , and there isn't a genere on the PC which hasn't made a succesful transition onto the console market except MMO's but this was because of the technical limitations of the PS2 , in order to get online in those days you'd need to have pretty good technical know how.

There hasn't been alot of MMO's on the consoles that is true , but that isn't due to a lack of demand (the PC market quite clearly shows there is demand from the hardcore gamer) Developers have just failed to capitalise on the opportunity availible , but when one dev expeirences success of in a new market , the rest will come pilling in. You can't use a lack of MMO's as an argument for a lack of interest in MMO's , there have been NO high budget MMO's released , no MMO current gen MMO has ever had a respectable level of marketing and promotion in comparison to your average blockbuster game. It's a failiure on the developers part and one the are pretty much capitilising on now.

FF14 won't have the production values of FF13 , that's certain but that doesn't mean it won't have as large a follow , be equaly or even more profitable and for greater periods of time .

I agree 100% with what you are saying.  I also think it will sell a lot better than what FFXI did just because of the reason AkibaFan mentioned. What I don't agree with is that this is the game that decided Sony as "winner" of E3 or that this is the best announcement of E3. While yes it is big, it is not anywhere close to a single player Final Fantasy title.