What's Holding Up Final Fantasy XIV For Xbox 360?

By Michael McWhertor, 2:40 PM on Fri Aug 21 2009, 11,831 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

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Final Fantasy XIV has only been officially announced for the PlayStation 3 and PC, but don't rule out an Xbox 360 version. Square Enix isn't. After all, Final Fantasy XI found its way to the Xbox.

Hiromuchi Tanaka, producer on FF XIV says that the roadblock in bringing the massively multiplayer game to Xbox Live is due to Microsoft's "network policy." Since the PlayStation 3 and Windows PC versions allow for cross communication and cross platform play, it sounds like that feature is at issue.

But Tanaka says that Square Enix is trying to reach an agreement with Microsoft to allow Xbox 360 players to enjoy the game, saying the developer is still "considering" the platform.

For now, however, you're going to need either a "high spec" PC or a PS3 to get your fix. What nobody's getting on any platform, however, is built-in voice communication. Square's keeping Final Fantasy XIV strictly text chat only—Sage Sundi, global online producer, suggested that Skype and Ventrilo are still your best bets.

The game will ship in 2010 and support Japanese, English, French and German.

We'll have more FF XIV details soon.

I find that excuse awkward... I mean Shadowrun and UNO can be played together via cross-platform

For sure maybe they will do it but maybe like 6 months later....

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Hmmm.... I wonder what these have in common.... that... FF14 won't have in common with them...

http://www.vg247.com/2009/08/20/ffxiv-discussions-with-microsoft-holding-up-360-version/

MS has a different policy with MS Live compared to the internet(?), and that's one of the reasons FF14 won't see the same launch time as PC and PS3.

Does the 360 have to have everything? No, look they got final fantasy xiii, why should they get final fantasy xiv?

JEDE3 said: sega4life said: I find that excuse awkward... I mean Shadowrun and UNO can be played together via cross-platform 21 Shadowrun Microsoft N/A N/A N/A 0.39m 29th May 07 21st Jan 09 1 UNO Microsoft N/A N/A N/A 0.00m 09th May 06 20th Jun 09 Hmmm.... I wonder what these have in common.... that... FF14 won't have in common with them...

Hmmm... I wonder what sales has to do with this conversation

way to try and change the subject..

sales has nothing to do with it.

Then what did you mean when posting that?

look at the publisher.