Square Enix Still Discussing Final Fantasy XIV On Switch And Xbox One With Cross-Platform Play

Speaking at the E3, Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida confirmed that there are still discussions about possible X1 and Switch releases

[slavish0]

Hope sonys crossplay stance isnt the reason its not happening 😑

[PhoenixUp]

Microsoft didn’t want Final Fantasy XIV on Xbox platforms because it’d crossplay with PlayStation platforms

[Tres21]

some1 please explain why does it matter if ms did it 1st? It was bull then and its bull now. It works both ways if its was a feature for gamers last gen it doesnt make it only right sony does it back. its still a bull move. F both ms and sony yall happy i dont giv a ish who did what im not playin games with either one of them im playin games with other gamers not the companys and neither one is hurting that bad they need my money twice. If sony has the lead doesnt it reason more players will be on ps so more spending would come from ps side?
so if more ppl buy games from sony and buy content on ps. Why stop it and dont say they dont want to giv info to ms cause if last gen it was cool 2 giv info what changed? And dont dev have basic info when they make games for a system to network their games on it?

[RauLeCreuset]

"some1 please explain why does it matter if ms did it 1st?"

Because that's the reason it's not on Xbox.

[RauLeCreuset]

@DNKING

The same Phil Spencer who cries about third party deals while cutting them, whines about cross-play while having less cross-play titles than PS4, and who just showed off games nowhere close to release after saying they don't want to show games too early to excuse their dearth of announced exclusives in times past. Phil didn't just arrive at MS this gen. The only relevant thing you pointed out is it's a different time. It wasn't convenient to MS to pursue it then. It is now.

[MuddyWaters]

How strange, people ask if it's happening in the future and now some want to talk about the past. I guess instead of answering, because that could put their piece of plastic in jeopardy, they want to deflect.

[Alucard_420]

This is the reason to why it did not happen. https://kotaku.com/final-fa...

If MS wants cross play for 14 it will happen. This is unrelated to MS did it first, it is related to MS didn't want to change it's stance at the start of this gen.

[Teflon02]

Ironically this situation was the exact opposite. MS missed out on this game because they wouldn't agree to cross play on playstation and pc while Sony and square were both pushing for it

[gangsta_red]

What's even funnier is Sony never pushed for it. They basically shrugged their shoulders and said whatever. with their position now it's possible they never wanted to in the first place and MS knew this.

[InKnight7s]

The true identity of MS. Now they act to be victims and all what they want is user benefits. Not like they are the first company to have pay to play online, the first company sells add on player(HD DVD player), first company to enforce camera(Kinect and X1), first company to create full idea of DRM and the company who said they won't support blu ray and won't need it(we know how that ended), company that is doing exactly what EA and Activision is doing in term in hardware and sofware and always had problems with RPG and single player games.

[shinoff2183]

Not sure why your getting down voted. This is all true. Last gen ms told sony to f off. Now sony is just doing the same. It's only right. Everybody mad at Sony, needs to remember this

[Zeref]

im honestly starting to think that Sony was bluffing at that time. Just because they knew Xbox didn't want to at that time. Now that Xbox is actually going for it, theyre backing off.

[Zeref]

im honestly starting to think that Sony was bluffing at that time. Just because they knew Xbox didn't want to at that time. Now that Xbox is actually going for it, theyre backing off. Also they never really pushed for it, Did they ever approach xbox about it?

Xbox is actually actively pushing for it and im pretty sure Xbox and other companies have had various converstations with Sony about it.

[Teflon02]

Or you know, Sony and MS had talks that didn't fall through and to simply put it. Sony will just stick with the crossplay they worked with originally.
No one seems to remember MS was trying to force PSN users to make a XBL for Minecraft crossplay once they became open to crossplay lol. I'm pretty sure that's where this all started, and if that's the problem sony did the right thing. Why should they do something that benefits MS so much and takes away from them in the process. Sony probably just doesn't want to do it because of that. I bet if Sony and MS renegoiated the Minecraft situation everything would be good. But Devs are not going to get sony to do it. MS needs to get up and renegoiate because I know that as long as the minecraft situation stands we won't see it. Though I don't care for it since I don't care to b\play with Xbox and Switch on games I play on PS4.

[Kashima]

More players are welcome in my favorite mmorpg of all tIme.

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

I like everything about it except for the loot system and crappy armor/weapon sets

[ThanatosDMC]

There's a crap ton of armors and weapon sets. My biggest problem is how the potion system works. I have 60k+ hp as a lv70 tank and health potions are pointless. I don't like to rely on healers when it's a Final Fantasy setting.

[Sm00thNinja]

Yeah at this point let's be honest does anyone really give a damn? FF14 has been out for years and they've been talking about this for almost all of that time.

[porkChop]

Well it's a hugely popular MMO, so yeah I'd say there are probably a lot of people who'd care.

[gangsta_red]

That would be interesting to see happen.

[SpaceRanger]

Why would it be interesting? It is the way it is. MS didn’t want this initially for the same reason Sony now doesn’t. That’s the way it played out.

[gangsta_red]

Sony didn't want it back then either for the same reasons they don't want it now.

What's interesting is now Switch and Xbox may have it.

That's how it may play out.

[Larrysweet]

4k 60 on x yes sir please

[zerocarnage]

it's more likely to happen now then than before which is great news..

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

I wish I could they hurry up and release it for X1. I have it on PS4 but I mainly play online on Xbox as do most of my friends. Been waiting for years for this to happen

[CrystalFantasy]

Microsoft did NOT want cross platform play between ps4 and Xbone which is why ffxiv did not come to Xbox one.

[Realms]

Reading the comments I guess some of you are trying to whine cross play with PS into existence talk about sounding like a broken record. Even funnier is that Sony has been doing cross play longer than MS which was never too keen on the idea until now gee I wonder why. The fact is Sony has more cross play games than MS but sure let's go with the narrative that Sony is screwing it's supporters by not giving into the loud minority. The truth is that PS gamers don't care we have the largets install base and already have cross play with an even bigger one PC so there is no need for Xbox and Switch as they combined don't add up to the PS4 install base.

If MS and Nintendo want cross play let them do it among them I'm sure no one will get screwed cough cough yup someone will get f over knowing MS.