Final Fantasy XIV is reaching its “limits” on PS4

In recent months, we’ve seen an increasing number of live-service titles announce that they’ll be ending support for their games on last-gen hardware. Though not quite there yet, Square Enix’s highly-popular MMO Final Fantasy XIV appears to be nearing its end-of-life on the PS4 – with the game said to be reaching its “limits” on the ageing hardware.

In an interview with Final Fantasy XIV head Naoki Yoshida (Yoshi-P), the publication Feed4Gamers spoke to the developer on the future of the PS4’s version of Final Fantasy XIV, asking “Can we expect FF14 to still support PS4 for the next expansion, at least 8.0 till the 8.5 series?”

Offering a rather candid and transparent response, Yoshi-P claimed “My basic stance is that I do want to continue supporting hardware which has grown old. But I do have one concern, and that's regarding the OS of the PlayStation 4, and this is regarding the hardware regulations which were made by Sony.”

According to Yoshi-P “These regulations are related to the limit of the data, and because there's that limit of the data, well, we are continually incorporating updates for Final Fantasy 14 and we are now approaching that limit. And so for this limit that's in place, we have been asking Sony Interactive Entertainment from our side to increase that just for Final Fantasy 14, and they have kindly been doing that so far. But they've told us now that they are also reaching their limits.”

The full interview can be found HERE, but in essence, it seems as though Yoshi-P hopes to support the PS4 until it is no longer physically possible to do so. Whether that’s a net positive or not, we will have to wait and see.

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