Rumor: PS4 Version of Final Fantasy XIV Being Adjusted Towards 60 FPS at 1080p

In a recent interview, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Director Naoki Yoshida mentioned that the PS4 version of Final Fantasy XIV: a Realm Reborn would run at 30 frames per second in order to display as many characters as possible, but things may be changing.

Today the PS4 version of the game is playable in Osaka for an event that will culminate in the latest Letter from the Producer Live broadcast, and attendees are reporting a switch towards 60 FPS.

[xfear2diex]

i hope they reach it

[ShugaCane]

If they do, that would be some kind of achievement. Even this kind of open-worlded MMO running smoothly at 30fps seems unreal for me lol, so imagine 60fps. It would definitely showcase how powerful the PS4 is, and how devoted developers are to pushing boundaries and making the best out of it.

[amiga-man]

The PS4 flexing it's muscles.

[Irishguy95]

It'd be quite sad if the console couldn't manage it on a 2010 game.

[ShugaCane]

@Irishguy95

The Real Reborn (which is a complete rebuilt version of the original FF XIV) came out last year..

[amiga-man]

@Irishguy95

This is from the article which you obviously didn't read

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is a MMORPG that can often display a considerable number of characters on screen. In this kind of game the load on the GPU is extremely variable and even a very beefy gaming PC struggles to hold 60 FPS in very crowded areas.

[xfear2diex]

yeah it will be awesome to play at 60fps it really hard to achieve that with a high demanding game like an mmo and to think about it it,s the best graphically mmo to date(opinion) if it reached the 60fps/1080p then the ps4 is one hell of a beast to do so but still it really hard to do so i really hoping the achieve it that will be pure awesome

[SirBradders]

@Irish my GTX770 struggles with 60FPS especially on Odin and BEhemoth pops when there can be 200+players at a bare minimum. imagine if a whole server was there even a GTX titan or AMD R9 would struggle.

[Bathyj]

Can't help yourself can you Irish?

[Utalkin2me]

@Irishguy95

The game came out in 2013. But at least for your console they are targeting 420p @ 30fps.

[thorstein]

Why wouldn't they be able to? Almost every game that is coming out has these specs. Why would this be different? It's not like there going to gimp it to coincide with XOne

[FamilyGuy]

This is a weird thing to read, I missed the 30fps announcement and had last read it was going to be 1080p 60fps. Didn't know they gone back on that but it's nice to see it might be 60fps after all.
I doubt it could hold 60fps in those extreme cases (200+ people fighting a huge boss type plus minions) regardless but setting that as a goal is much appreciated.

[AndrewLB]

SirBradders- If a GTX 770 struggles, then there is no way in hell the PS4 will run 1080p/60 with the same level of detail. That GTX 770 is the same as my GTX 680, which has 2x the PS4's flops, 3x PS4's texture fill rate, 2x pixel fill rate, and ~50gb/s more memory bandwidth than PS4, and it doesn't have to be shared.

If the game is as hard on a 770 as you claim, and PS4 is running 1080p/60, then its only because they really dumbed the detail/textures/shadows/lighti ng/etc down.

[Magicite]

Ive i7 4770k and asus gtx 780 and I cannot maintain 60fps when moving in most crowded areas (on maximum settings), so yeah.

[Studio-YaMi]

That would just be "gravy"!

[sashimi]

I love gravy :) so that would be awesome!

[adorie]

Chicken gravy with crushed peppercorns!
Ps4. Gravy Awaits.

[MasterCornholio]

Sounds good to me.

:)

[first1NFANTRY]

Man all this good news about he ps4 is like music to my ears and a nightmare for the fanboys. Keep the high res games coming.

[KakashiHotake]

PS4 really is the cream of the crop for console gaming this gen. It seems the devs really are going out their way to push the consoles power. This could be a huge problem for Xbox One because over time the differences will become more noticeable and the gap in power will be more pronounced. Right now people aren't really seeing it because of rushed launch games. For example just look at AC4 for PS4, they clearly could have done much better. You can barely tell it apart from the PS3 version. But the next wave of games is looking a lot more promising.

[XiSasukeUchiha]

That too true right there should of put more power into GPU instead of Kinect because now the difference will show over time. Which makes a harder to buy Xbone and justified!

[imt558]

I thought that anything beyond 30 fps is "gravy". Isn't that right, Square!?

[KontryBoy706]

Yup this is going to be the trend for the PS4. I expect to see more of this console running games 1080p 60FPS. Mark Cerny got it right.

[Maxor]

This would be sound impressive to me I had never played this game before. Ooooh 1080p 60 fps. I'm sorry but this game was designed to be playable on the PS3. And you can get 1080p 60 fps from any decent laptop.

So 1080p 60 fps on the PS4? Well, duh. This is a none achievement.

[reaperman]

Nobody said anything about wanting to play this on a laptop. Just be thankful that they weren't talking about the XBone as that would never run this game at 60fps.
People are talking about playing this game on a console as that is what they prefer to play games on.. so mentioning a laptop which isn't a console is rather dumb to be honest.

[Utalkin2me]

Obviously you have no clue of what you're talking about. Make your trolling less obvious next time.

[Maxor]

So all these people playing this game on the PS3 must not be real. Runs silky smooth in 720p on an ancient console with 512 MB of RAM.

So its 1080p 60 FPS on a 2013 console with 8 gigs of RAM...jeez, you think??

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[SonyKong64]

if he's genuinely ignorant, does that not make him, not a troll?

uninformed and dumb sure, but troll not..

[LeCreuset]

Did you even bother reading the article, or comments from people here that have played the game on their rigs?

"Quite obviously we shouldn’t expect 60 FPS in every situation, as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is a MMORPG that can often display a considerable number of characters on screen. In this kind of game the load on the GPU is extremely variable and even a very beefy gaming PC struggles to hold 60 FPS in very crowded areas."

"@Irish my GTX770 struggles with 60FPS especially on Odin and BEhemoth pops when there can be 200+players at a bare minimum. imagine if a whole server was there even a GTX titan or AMD R9 would struggle."

"Ive i7 4770k and asus gtx 780 and I cannot maintain 60fps when moving in most crowded areas (on maximum settings), so yeah."

When you make a comment that doesn't even acknowledge what's already been addressed in the article, it just comes off like you went straight to the comment section to troll.

[Kryptix]

If you read Maxor's comment history, I think his sole purpose on N4G is to troll anything related to the PS4 without reading the articles. If he's being serious then he's just another blind idiot. Clearly the PS4 version is running the game at graphics settings close to the PC version, it's already been stated by the developers. PS3 and PS4 versions of the game aren't the same.

[CertifiedGamer]

The PS3 version doesn't look or run well, I can talk from experience. The game can barely run at 30 fps, majority of the time it is running so bad the hiccups take fps down to 10, and this is on a sub-HD MMORPG. The game is 720 up converted in the PS3, it is really something like 640p on PS3.

[The_Truth_24_7]

That's cool.

[cruzngta]

PS4 is an AMAZING console. Period. End of discussion. More and more games coming out at 1080p/60fps is proff of this. No compromises made with 720p like competitiors in certain games. No one can deny this is a special machine and Sony is the REAL deal. Completely legit. No disrespect for XBox One intended. Give credit where credit is due. Sony has something real special with the PS4 and we owners get to embrace the best gaming has to offer with this beast of a machine.

[LeCreuset]

"PS4 is an AMAZING console. Period. End of discussion."

I see what you did there. ;)

[badboy776]

My taxes can't come soon enough.

[Rock_On_PS4]

1080p at 60 fps must be the bare minimum for PS4 games to achieve in all games.
I am hoping to see 4k resolution and a mind blowing 120 fps in the not too distant future.

[ambientFLIER]

What happened with BF4 running 900P?

[EXVirtual]

I believe that SE can do it.
1080p native @ 60fps would be quite an achievement for an MMO like this. However, it'll definitely be unlocked. Understandable, since it is an MMO.
I can't wait to see how FF15 runs on the PS4.

[NeoTribe]

Gravystation does it again!

[MasterCornholio]

Bet I can make some awesome poutine with that.

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

PS4 is the future, The future is NOW!