Yesterday Sony announced the pricing for the PlayStation VR headset. The base unit will run $399 and will require the PlayStation Eye camera for PS4 to handle the motion and positioning controls. With this announcement, the major 3 players in the VR game, Occulus Rift ($600), HTC Vive ($800), and Sony PSVR ($400) have all announced pricing. With all this said, will this impact whether or not you play Final Fantasy XIV in Virtual Reality? What are some of your thoughts on this?
New Fat Cat and Goobbue plushies coming soon!
From Lead Developer M’s blog post on the JP Lodestone, new plushies based on the Fat Cat and Goobbue minions are on the way! These items will be arriving in SE’s Japanese store in May, and available to NA and EU shortly after that in June. They are $39.99 and available for preorder NOW!
All Worlds Maintenance scheduled for Patch 3.22
Final Fantasy XIV Dev Diary Chapter 3: Visual Design
The third chapter of the Final Fantasy XIV Developer’s Diary video series has been released on YouTube. This edition focuses on visual design and implementation in the game, and how the team comes up with its ideas. Check it out!
Free Login Campaign returns to Final Fantasy XIV
If you’ve played Final Fantasy XIV in the past, or have taken a break from your subscription, now is your chance to come back and check out everything Patch 3.2 has to offer. For the next month, starting 3/14 and running through 4/14, you can sign in to your FFXIV account and play for up to 4 days. To qualify, your account must meet the following criteria:
- Users who have previously purchased and registered FINAL FANTASY XIV.
- All registered services accounts are set as inactive during the campaign period.
- Registered service account must have been inactive for at least thirty days.
Full details can be found here.
Final Fantasy XV rumored release date
According to an article on gaming website Gematsu, 3 independent sources have confirmed that the long-awaited release of Final Fantasy XV will be on September 30th, 2016. While this is still a rumor, we should learn the true release date on March 30th during the “Uncovered – Final Fantasy XV” event in Los Angeles. If the rumors are true, this is good news indeed for Final Fantasy fans.
The full Gematsu article can be found here.
RSS for Episode 14 issue
If you have tried to listen to Episode 14 via iTunes, you may have noticed that you got Episode 13 again instead. We were notified by twitter follower @JerryTheForest, and have gone and fixed the issue. Thanks Jerry for the heads up, and apologies for the inconvenience. We hope you all enjoy Episode 14 as much as we did recording it for everyone.
“You’re Not Alone” raises over $4000 for Charity
A huge shout out and congratulations go out to Eskalia and all the #Eskasuals out there for raising $4033.04 for Transgender Michigan over the 34 hour stream. Phoenix Down Radio would like to throw out a special shout out to everyone on #TeamPalindrome, who once again won the donation battle.