Final Fantasy XIV Not Coming Out On Xbox 360, Xbox Live Is Too “Closed”, Says Square Enix

Final Fantasy XIV won’t be coming out on Xbox 360 it seems. After the surprise debut of Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360, the next installment in the series as an MMO won’t be released due to Xbox Live being too “closed”.

Final Fantasy creator and director Hiromichi Tanaka said to Eurogamer, “The main reason why we couldn’t go with Xbox 360 was the Xbox Live system. [Live is] different to the normal internet environment, so when we wanted to introduce this game in the same environment as Windows PC it had to be PS3, so that was our choice.”

“Microsoft has a different point of view: they want to have a closed environment for Xbox Live. We’re still talking to… We couldn’t come to an agreement on Xbox Live.”