Biggest PS3 News From E3 Final Fantasy XIV Is Coming In 2010

So, what’s the biggest PS3 news from the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2009?

Final Fantasy XIII? Old news. Besides, it’s not even exclusive to the Sony PS3 anymore.

God of War 3? Everyone knew it was coming, sooner or later. Also, a video of Kratos climbing the back of a Titan has been making the rounds since late in 2008.

Gran Turismo 5? Hardly. The Prologue has been in the market for more than 2 years now. It’s about time that the real deal will be released.

The biggest piece of PS3 news from E3 is something that was only mentioned in passing – advertently or inadvertently – during the introduction of footages for Final Fantasy XIII.

The biggest PS3 news from E3 is this: Final Fantasy XIV is DEFINITELY coming in 2010. Some still shots of the game were shown, and they look fantastic!

Final Fantasy XIII is scheduled to be released stateside in spring of 2010. This means that, soon afterwards, the fourteenth installment of the highly successful series will soon be released afterwards. The question in many fans’ minds is this: wouldn’t both Final Fantasy installments cannibalize each other? After all, isn’t it unwise to release 2 products that you own and make them compete with each other for the same audience share?

Alas, here’s the clincher: Final Fantasy XIV will be a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), much like Final Fantasy XI. In fact, Final Fantasy XIV is poised to be the next great MMORPG for Play Online, Square-Enix’ pay-per-play division.

To fully appreciate the magnitude of this PS3 news, it must be noted that Final Fantasy XI is the first ever console MMORPG. Final Fantasy XI is also the first MMORPG to go cross-platform, appearing on the PS2, the PC, and the Xbox 360. It continues to be a highly popular MMORPG to this very day, more than 7 years from its original release.

From the brief trailer that was shown, people seemed to be convinced that Final Fantasy XIV is truer to the spirit of the series than Final Fantasy XI ever was.

Also, it was promised that Final Fantasy XIV will be a Sony Playstation 3 exclusive. Whether or not such means that it is an exclusive “exclusive,” or whether or not such is merely a timed exclusive, remains to be seen. But the sheer impact of this bit of Sony PS3 news cannot be denied: people will be going online on 2010 just to complete their Final Fantasy experience.

Will Final Fantasy XIV be the World of Warcraft-killer that video game enthusiasts have been waiting for? If it is, then that would be the biggest piece of PS3 news for the millennium!