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  • #16
    Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

    It's not the "power" of Wii which is at issue--it has enough.
    SE would probably have to actually put effort into a port for Wii,
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    • #17
      Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

      >_> OK, let me rephrase: It's not the "effort", it's the money.

      There's no money to be made from putting FFXI on Wii.
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      • #18
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        Y HLO THAR POST

        http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/ask...-ffxi-wii.html

        . . . But I don't see why everybody's a real negative nancy about it: the only person to come up with any valid arguments against is Ita, with her arguement about Square's effort versus Square's reward.

        The Wii really is quite a versatile piece of hardware; FFXI can definately be ported on to it, no problem; the only question is, would SE be willing and able to pull it off?

        I'm really hoping for it myself; after the release of WtG would be the optimal Wii release date, if it ever happens.
        Originally posted by Armando
        No one at Square Enix has heard of Occam's Razor.
        Originally posted by Armando
        Nintendo always seems to have a legion of haters at the wings ready to jump in and prop up straw men about hardware and gimmicks and casuals.
        Originally posted by Taskmage
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        Originally posted by Taskmage
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        • #19
          Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

          Originally posted by Yellow Mage View Post
          Y HLO THAR POST

          http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/ask...-ffxi-wii.html

          . . . But I don't see why everybody's a real negative nancy about it: the only person to come up with any valid arguments against is Ita, with her arguement about Square's effort versus Square's reward.

          The Wii really is quite a versatile piece of hardware; FFXI can definately be ported on to it, no problem; the only question is, would SE be willing and able to pull it off?

          I'm really hoping for it myself; after the release of WtG would be the optimal Wii release date, if it ever happens.
          well your right there is alot of negitive people on here about the Wii I'll give up on asking questions about FFXI for the Wii do you know of any other MMORPG's coming to the Wii? and feel free to send me an IM on AOL (AKA AIM) my screen name is Animeangel1277
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          • #20
            Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

            I own a Wii. However, an MMORPG running on Wii is not feasible at this time. Quite simply, there is not enough storage capacity right now.

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            • #21
              Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

              I don't use instant messengers.

              The Wii has nigh-infinite potential when it comes to games, MMORPGs being no exception (a wonder, considering that MMORPGs have been traditionally PC only, FFXI and Phantasy Star Online being rare exceptions). However, I know of no MMOs coming to Wii at the moment, and, to my knowledge, FFXI has the greatest chance of any MMOs out there of getting a port on the Wii (MS is coming to the DS, but that's a different cup of tea).

              . . . Though an MMORPG I've caught wind of recently, TCoS, seems like it'd be a perfect fit for Wii. Seeing how it isn't even released on the PC yet, with no current plans for a Wii version . . . in all honesty, I couldn't guess how that one will turn out.
              Originally posted by Armando
              No one at Square Enix has heard of Occam's Razor.
              Originally posted by Armando
              Nintendo always seems to have a legion of haters at the wings ready to jump in and prop up straw men about hardware and gimmicks and casuals.
              Originally posted by Taskmage
              GOD IS MIFFED AT AMERICA

              REPENT SINNERS OR AT LEAST GIVE A NONCOMMITTAL SHRUG

              GOD IS AMBIVALENT ABOUT FURRIES

              THE END IS COMING ONE OF THESE DAYS WHEN GOD GETS AROUND TO IT
              Originally posted by Taskmage
              However much I am actually smart, I got that way by confronting how stupid I am.
              Matthew 16:15
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              • #22
                Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                ok so your telling me a PC MMORPG can come to the DS (a hand held weaker than the PS2) and they cant port FFXI to the Wii? heres a link to the game coming to the DS http://ds.ign.com/articles/753/753842p1.html and BTW the DS doesnt have a mouse or a KB
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                • #23
                  Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                  The DS has a Touch-Screen which can substitue for a Mouse in most situations, as well as an on-screen keyboard already having been built into already existing games for the DS. Really, all that's left at most is minor changes to the interface for the DS version (Inventory, etcertera, on the touch screen, or something; stuff like that).

                  I wouldn't be surprised if compatibility for voice chat (like with the Pokemon games) was available, as well.

                  But all that's off-topic, now isn't it ?
                  Originally posted by Armando
                  No one at Square Enix has heard of Occam's Razor.
                  Originally posted by Armando
                  Nintendo always seems to have a legion of haters at the wings ready to jump in and prop up straw men about hardware and gimmicks and casuals.
                  Originally posted by Taskmage
                  GOD IS MIFFED AT AMERICA

                  REPENT SINNERS OR AT LEAST GIVE A NONCOMMITTAL SHRUG

                  GOD IS AMBIVALENT ABOUT FURRIES

                  THE END IS COMING ONE OF THESE DAYS WHEN GOD GETS AROUND TO IT
                  Originally posted by Taskmage
                  However much I am actually smart, I got that way by confronting how stupid I am.
                  Matthew 16:15
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                  • #24
                    Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                    ok so your telling me a PC MMORPG can come to the DS (a hand held weaker than the PS2) and they cant port FFXI to the Wii? heres a link to the game coming to the DS http://ds.ign.com/articles/753/753842p1.html and BTW the DS doesnt have a mouse or a KB
                    You can't compare a MMO with the graphics of a SNES to a full 3D polygon based title. Can the Wii handle FFXI, yea but it's going to take alot of time and effort to basically rewrite code to port over, most likely years. That's also alot of money to invest too.

                    The fact is the dev team already said they have no plan to port FFXI to the Wii. Maybe something down the road will change but for right now it's just not going to happen no matter how much you want it too. Your only options at this time is to play PS2, PC, X360 version.
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                    • #25
                      Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                      Look at the size of your FFXI install. Mine, with all expansions so far, is 7.9 GB. The maximum storage capacity of Wii right now is 2.5 GB, and that's if you have no saved games or Virtual Console downloads whatsoever.

                      At this time, it is not technically possible to run FFXI on a Wii, due to these storage constraints. **IF** a hard drive for Wii is released, of which I am not aware of any announcements, then it is possible.

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                      • #26
                        Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                        You can rabble on and on about different MMOs coming out for the Wii and/or DS, but they aren't (going to be) FFXI. sorry.




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                            Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                            Originally posted by Dyvid View Post
                            Can the Wii handle FFXI, yea but it's going to take alot of time and effort to basically rewrite code to port over, most likely years. That's also alot of money to invest too.
                            I've got to wonder if SE would do it if the Wii had a high capacity storage solution available right now? It's hard to make an estimate on how difficult the port would be without seeing the Wii development kit and the FFXI code.

                            The real problem, as someone else pointed out, is that the Wii lacks a hard disk, and a keyboard. I doubt FFXI has the market to attract enough people to buy the Wii to make developing a keyboard solutioin for the Wii worthwhile for Nintendo, let alone high capacity storage.

                            That said, a MMORPG would be a nice addition to the Wii's line-up, and since we're making pipe-dreams, I'd dig to have FFXI on my Wii.

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                            • #29
                              Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                              Even if they added a hard drive, if it ended up being USB it wouldn't be fast enough to run FFXI.

                              There's just not enough persistent storage on the Wii at a decent enough performance level to make FFXI work properly... not to mention the lack of a functional keyboard workaround.


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                              • #30
                                Re: Will the Nintendo Wii ever get FFXI?

                                Even if they added a hard drive, if it ended up being USB it wouldn't be fast enough to run FFXI.
                                I doubt that- I'm pretty sure I've heard of people running FFXI off external drives before, it just has longer load times.
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