{"id":178198,"date":"2025-08-26T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178198\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:00:09","slug":"final-fantasy-14-is-running-out-of-room-on-ps4-ahead-of-next-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178198\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 14 Is Running Out Of Room On PS4 Ahead Of Next Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final Fantasy 14<\/a> came out over a decade ago and has been running on PlayStation 4 since soon after it launched. Sony\u2019s last-gen hardware won\u2019t be able to support Square Enix\u2019s MMORPG forever, though, and director Naoki \u201cYoshi-P\u201d Yoshida recently explained why.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy basic stance is that I do want to continue supporting hardware which has grown old,\u201d he said in an interview with Feed4Gamers<\/a> (via TweakTown<\/a>). \u201cBut I do have one concern, and that\u2019s regarding the OS of the PlayStation 4, and this is regarding the hardware regulations which were made by Sony. These regulations are related to the limit of the data, and because there\u2019s that limit of the data, well, we are continually incorporating updates for Final Fantasy 14 and we are now approaching that limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued:<\/p>\n

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And so for this limit that\u2019s 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\u2019ve told us now that they are also reaching their limits. So I will repeat myself: I do want to provide support for platforms as long as possible. However, there will eventually come a time when the hardware is at its limits in terms of its technology, and at that point in time we would have to provide an end to the service on that hardware. But I will be sure to provide clear reasoning for that decision when I communicate it to the players.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to Yoshida, Sony\u2019s already been making exceptions to its standard developer rules in order to accommodate new content for FF14. The game has received several major updates since last year\u2019s Dawntrail expansion, including this month\u2019s patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow. It\u2019s unclear just how much wiggle room is still left for further upgrades and content drops.<\/p>\n

When is Final Fantasy 14\u2018s next expansion coming? <\/p>\n

Square Enix has been cagey on the timing of its next expansion, with speculation from some fans<\/a> that it could arrive as late as spring 2027. Yoshida teased that there will at least be an update on the date for FF14 Fan Fest 2026 on the 10-year anniversary of A Realm Reborn this week.<\/p>\n

Other big multiplayer games like PUBG<\/a> and Genshin Impact<\/a> are both dropping support for last-gen consoles in the coming months. While Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is still coming to PS4 and Xbox One this fall, other big annual franchises like MLB: The Show and Madden NFL have all ditched the aging hardware. Considering we\u2019re nearly five years into the PS5 and Xbox Series X\/S lifecycles, the only surprising thing is that these moves didn\u2019t come sooner.<\/p>\n

Originally released on the PS3 in 2013, FF14 left that console behind at the time of the Stormblood expansion in 2017, a departure for which Square Enix provided eight months of notice.<\/a> My guess is that update 8.0, whenever it arrives, might similarly mark the end of the MMORPG\u2019s journey on PS4. And by that point, PS6 will probably be just around the corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 14 came out over a decade ago and has been running on PlayStation 4 since soon…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[100923,20688,2762,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-178198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-final-fantasy-xiv","9":"tag-ps4","10":"tag-square-enix","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115097555762810677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}