I'm guessing it's because square (and every other videogame company in existence) is grossly envious of Blizzard money printing machine AKA World Of Warcraft. and while many have been calling for a console equivalent of WoW, nobody has yet to deliver. Square sees the void, already has a foot in the door with 11 and is hoping they can score big with XIV. The big pie in the sky is a 10 million person user base making micro transactions on chocobo armor and gunblade flame decals. They found a juicy hole, and they are doing what any sane person would do and thrusting something of the roughly appropriate size into it.

Will it work? Who the hell knows.

@The_vagabond

Exactly, if S-E can become the "MMO that breaks out on consoles", i.e. Like HALO was the breakout FPS on consoles then, EVERY FF MMO that follows is guaranteed success

but for that to happen FF14 NEEDS to be on 360 too.....sooner (at launch) or later though.

I don't get why do people think this will be the same as FF XI. The current state of console gaming is so different then it was back when FF XI came out. In fact, I think that with the current online capacity of consoles, it is the perfect timing to ''start'' MMO gaming on consoles.

PS3 ALREADY has a F2P MMO on the PSN... MMO by a Taiwan company. They are not looking to beat WoW imo... FFXI is BIG in Japan... Was Capcom never happy with Monster Hunter PSP even though it flopped EVERYWHERE except Japan? No. The same thing with Final Fantasy Online series.