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Originally Posted by Xion Valkyrie
The reason why they're porting it to the XB1 is because it's so easy that they'd be stupid not to. The specs between the XB1 and PS4 are extremely similar and they both use the x86 architecture. It's basically free money. I don't think any decent sized third party devs would be going single platform this time around unless Sony or MS pays them a large amount of money not to.
PS3 might be possible for FFXIV depending on how much dev they've already done on it for the PS3, but WiiU is out of the question as they'd need an entire separate team to do the porting. It's just not cost effective.
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I kinda figured that to be the reason for the port. That and gaining a cut from Microsofts used game policies I suppose.
TBH, after seeing Square Enix port their games to multiple devices(FF4 im looking at you), I would think that they would be able to profit from an install base that is already established rather than an install base that has yet to be determined but that's just me I guess.