The problem with that is:

First off, I would be willing to bet that a lot of people who bought FFXI on the consoles thought it was just another Final Fantasy.  Even if they knew it was an MMO, FFXI is not an easy game.  If you're not dedicated you will fail.  Also, if you don't have millions of gil and the best equipment, nobody will give you the time of day after level 25 (and that's assuming they even get that far!).  I love FFXI, but it isn't a new user friendly game at all.  If someone picked up the game for the first time any time after 2006, I would be willing to bet they didn't stick with it for longer than a year.

Of the people that I've met that use console, I'd say about 3/4 of the them have the game on the PC too.  I know that's all just speculation and my own experiences, but in the rare event I do find someone playing on the console, that's usually the case.

Finally, even ignoring the above two things, 38 million a year may sound like a lot but MMO's burn through money like mad.  Even a small MMO like FFXI has A MASSIVE upkeep that is probably more than 38 million yearly.

Don't get me wrong, I love FFXI and I assume FFXIV is going to be just as successful, but this is going to be marketed as a PC game.  Sony will market the game for themselves because they can, but as far as SE is concerned, this is a PC game first and foremost.  I'm not saying the PS3 version is a waste of time and it will do them some good, but the support for this game will be on the PC.

Let's be honest here. MMO gaming on consoles is not popular. Especially when you compare it to the PC versions. So many games get dropped from consoles because of this. If we use FFXI sales on just consoles it is what around 200k-300k?  That is bought. Does not include those who dropped out after the free month that was included. I doubt very much that of the console community it still has 100k playing it.

It just seems like another cash in game to me. It sounds like SE are trying hard to pimp it out to MS and they simply not interested. Can't blame them. I am a huge FF fan and i know if i bought this game (which i doubt i will) then i would get it for PC.

it's pretty much the opposite with my i7 860, CPU doesn't go over 30% and GPU blows it up, I ran it on my 4400 with a 3850 AGP and got about 1400 btw so I think there really is something wrong with the benchmark when working with your setup. That or you are CPU capped and should get a quad to hex core.

You do realize that WoW crushes western MMORPGs too right? Fucking destroys them, at least FF11 is still making money which is not something I can say about a lot of other MMOs that blew up or are dying atm, from the west of course.

Making a console centric MMO is suicide either way, on one hand, devs might not make enough money, on the other, MMO is part of the PC destruction history where it would most likely happen to consoles. In the end, MMO is a dangerous area for any platform.

Yeah, I think he forgot that FFXI is one of the few successful MMO's out there.  About five years ago there were countless MMO's coming out trying to cash in on WoW's success.  The few that actually even released lasted almost no time at all.

Saying FFXI wasn't a success since WoW sales so greatly outnumbered it is as stupid as saying Bioshock wasn't a success because Modern Warfare 2 sales so greatly outnumbered it.  Just because something isn't the best or highest selling doesn't mean it's automatically a failure.

SE charge about 14 USD a month .. on the 360 sales alone that brings about 2 million USD income a month which isn't bad for an 8 year old MMOrpg.. but i guess MS don't care about MMOs cause they don't require gold accounts so won't make any profit on it.

Dude you have a Core i7. Of course you wont max out the CPU. The benchmark is probably a port of the PS3 version of the Crystal engine which means it supports the Cell processor and RSX.

My CPU normally outperforms most Core 2 Duo made as well as the Phenom X3 is most benchmarts. it even beats the Core 2 Quad 6600 in some benchmarks. IF I can run Crysis on Very High, I can run FFXIV.

Why are the sales of an MMO brought up?

Success is counted in number of suscribers.... Every year, each suscriber has paid about the price of 2 fully priced games in fees.... so 200K suscribers is probably the equivalent of a 1.5M selling regular game (with price decrease), revenue wise.

Actually, most people that actually play FFXI and get a job above at least 60 has more than one character.  I believe I had my main, my alt, and four mules so I was paying an extra $6 a month.