Final Fantasy XI team working on new next-gen MMORPG
Hiromichi Tanaka tells Famitsu that he's in the initial stages of developing an unnamed next-generation project, talks Xbox 360 FFXI details.
In an interview published in the latest issue of Famitsu magazine, Final Fantasy XI producer Hiromichi Tanaka disclosed that his development team is currently working on a new massively multiplayer role-playing game for next-generation consoles.
Tanaka declined to comment on whether the MMORPG in development will be a successor to FFXI or a new product. He did confirm that the technical demonstration shown for the Xbox 360 during E3 was one of the experiments his development team had created to see what kind of graphics a next-generation console could achieve.
Tanaka also disclosed that the Xbox 360 edition of FFXI will sport graphics of a quality similar to the currently available PC version of FFXI. However, he added that the development team is seeing if the Xbox 360 can display graphics for about twice the distance than the Windows version.
The game's beta test is slated to begin simultaneously with the launch of the Xbox 360 later this year. Similarly to the Windows beta, the Xbox 360's beta test will be conducted on servers separate from the rest of the FFXI world. One of the main objectives for the Xbox 360 version's beta testing is to see if there are any problems with the game's network environment, since this will be the first time Xbox Live will be allowing a connection from an external system.
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Developer: Square Enix
Genre: Fantasy Online Role-Playing
Platform: X360
Release Date: Apr 18, 2006
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3 years later.... any news ?
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2 years later........
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very interesting.....
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Rather odd that no one has commented on this really old article. A friend of mine was in Japan this summer and saw a sneak peak of it. We were both at E3 this year and didn't get a chance to see it. I personally stayed at the SquareEnix booth for a very long time to visit with old friends, but did not hear about this. I sure hope my FFXI Character will have some value in the new version. This article is quite a tease, and perhaps so full of holes, that no one even bothered to comment. Go figure!
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