Final Fantasy XIV is due out on PC in September, but fans of the series were dismayed to hear that the Playstation 3 wont be seeing the MMO until March 2011 at the earliest. Developer Square Enix has come clean about why this is the case.
Final Fantasy XIV Producer Hiromichi Tanaka has admitted that Square Enix have run into some ‘technical difficulties’ with the PS3 version of the title and that these are responsible for the nearly six month delay.
Tanaka spoke to French games site JeuxOnline and was suitably contrite about the delays.
“We understand the wrath of players and developers are sorry because they did everything they could to have a simultaneous release date, but unfortunately they have encountered many technical problems on the development of the game for PS3. We strive to release the game as soon as possible.”
Tanaka did not reveal what the technical problems were, but we assume they are probably not graphical as Square Enix has done simultaneous PC & PS3 ports before without much difficulty. Could the problems related to the Massively Multiplayer aspect of the game? MMOs are notoriously hard to get right on consoles, so it may be that this is where Square are struggling.
Tanaka would not confirm a more definite release date for the game, saying, “If possible, we would publish the game sooner, we would like to start as soon as possible the beta on PS3.”
Sept 2010(PC)/March 2011(PS3) | £tba | Square Enix (via Playstation Lifestyle)
