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>XI and XIV actually have a sizeable amount of console players, and it's quite likely that in 2011 a large amount of the target Japanese audience didn't have PCs that could run the game.
The PS2 version of FFXI ended support in 2016, and only because the team was getting scared that they likely own the last functional PS2 devkit in existence, and they'd rather do a planned EoS than an emergency one when it inevitably kicked the bucket in the middle of building a patch.