Square's Next MMOG For PS3/Windows

Gamespot reports that Square/Enix's next Massively Multiplayer Online Game will be a PS3/Windows Vista title. From the article: "While talking up Treasures of Aht Urhgan--the game's latest expansion--FFXI producer Hiromichi Tanaka commented that his team is now working on a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game for Windows Vista and the PlayStation 3. He also shared his thoughts on porting games to new hardware, including bringing FFXI to the PS3 as well as the PlayStation Portable." More details are likely at E3. Update: 04/20 14:03 GMT by Z : Link fixed.

Re:what gives?

[apoc06]

link to article: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6147946.html [gamespot.com]

Re:Kind Of Early To Be Abandoning The 360?

[MindStalker]

Oddly enough the article http://www.gamespot.com/news/6147946.html [gamespot.com] says "The Xbox 360 operating system shares enough similarities with Windows, he said, so that porting the Windows version of FFXI to the 360 was a fairly quick task. A PS3 version of FFXI, on the other hand, would require redeveloping the game almost from scratch, a process that Tanaka estimated would take two or three years."

Which is virtually the opposite. So why are they annoucing it for the PS3 then saying it could take a few extra years to get on the PS3. A few years time between PC launch and PS3 launch would be death to the PS3 launch. Rather pointless really.

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Re:WoW envy

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.mmogchart.com/ [mmogchart.com]

Because being #4 means no one plays it...