E3 2008: Extra Final Fantasy XIII Info
Final Fantasy XIIIOne of the biggest announcements of E3 has already taken place, and before Sony's press conference at 11:30 a.m. PST today. As most of you know, it was during yesterday's Square-Enix conference that it was revealed Final Fantasy XIII would be coming to the Xbox 360. At the same time, we learned that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would remain exclusive to the PlayStation 3, but there's more to report.
First, we'll simply relay a statement from Square-Enix's Shinji Hashimoto that will answer several questions from concerned parties:
"We're ready to start developing FF13 for 360. First, we will complete the game for PS3 in Japan, then begin localization for America and Europe while developing the 360 version simultaneously. The PS3 and 360 versions will be released at the same time outside of Japan -- although, due to language and other conditions, the game may not be released simultaneously across territories."
Now, PS3 owners are painfully aware of the poor ports they've received since the system launched; if a game is developed first for the 360 and then ported over to the PS3, it's usually inferior. Some were wondering about how S-E would go about developing a multiplatform FFXIII, but it seems you needn't be concerned. There's no doubt they're going to optimize this bad boy for the PS3 in addition to making it for the 360 "simultaneously." Furthermore, it has also been confirmed that the 360 version will only release in the U.S. and not in Japan (makes sense, considering the tiny number of 360 systems in Japanese homes), and Japan will get the PS3 version well beforehand. As for when both versions are coming to North America, we still have no release date.
We're still awaiting that big FFVII-related announcement from Square-Enix, but that shouldn't come until next month at the publisher's private party. In the meantime, if more FF news comes out of E3, we'll be sure to let you know about it.
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7/14/2008 Ben Dutka
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ffrulez
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 5:22:50 PM
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Mystearica
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 10:15:35 PM
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They just lost their potentially strongest exclusive... hell I'm thinking of not getting a PS3 now at all
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 10:16:55 PM
Besides, I get the sneaking suspicion that the PS3 version of FFXIII will be better than the 360 version, anyway.
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Tatsujin
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:20:30 PM
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ffrulez
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 5:22:07 PM
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Mystearica
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 10:19:05 PM
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EDITING: to add to what I meant... honestly speaking Sony doesn't have much EXCLUSIVE THIRD PARTY support... so this is a GIANT slap in Sony's face!
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 10:48:31 PM
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ArnoldK PSXE [Administrator]
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 10:23:42 PM
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Tatsujin
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:22:04 PM
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Jed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 7:48:20 AM
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ActionJackson
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 10:31:25 PM
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The PS3 game will not suffer, despite the fact that Final fantasy is going cross-platform, it is still pretty obvious that FF is still a Playstation game first, and a 360 game....as an afterthought. XD
I mean, look at the trailers, the game was made for the PS3, I honestly am just WAITING for them to announce sometime in the future that a 360 port is not possible, they'll probably have to split the game into several different discs and try to pigeonhole the very different PS3 architecture into the 360 architecture.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why you can't buy the game for the PS3 simply because it is also coming out for the 360. XD
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aaronisbla
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:00:14 PM
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Quoted for truth. The only bad news about this is like Arnold said, since they are going for a simultaneous release in the states, the ps3 version will be delayed because of it.
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Mystearica
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:07:15 PM
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"There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why you can't buy the game for the PS3 simply because it is also coming out for the 360. XD"
^REALLY???? LOL... anywayz I'm looking at the bigger picture and the trends that are happening recently. Yes the PS3 is selling - remember the PS3 sales rate went up with MGS4's release which is an exclusive!
But news like this sparks doubt among the undecided and as it stands the 360 is stronger - game-wise... Final Fantasy is a BIG title and I doubt any gamer hasn't heard of this. So the impact of this news will spread greatly. Other GREAT titles for example like Uncharted hardly have the "publicity" and "cult" as FF (even though it is a great game).
In addition, what do you think other companies will think about this? Sony needs to keep more well known exclusives to itself because as it stands in front of the general public - the 360 got more games and it's "cheaper" (yes, the quotes are there for a reason). More buyers of a certain console = companies developing for them because of $$. Yes, yes it's all about the $$ in the ending.
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Tatsujin
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:23:39 PM
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Zapix
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:32:44 PM
PS3 Version: 1 billion gb install, will take 12 hours of your time.
360 Version: No install needed, 10 discs to swap and loading time
Obviously not real, but I can almost assure you the PS3 version will have an install, the 360 won't... LOL
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Tatsujin
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:39:16 PM
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Jed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 7:55:25 AM
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Tatsujin
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Zapix
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:14:05 AM
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ffrulez
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bdizzle
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:34:42 PM
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Tatsujin
Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 11:43:11 PM
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ffrulez
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fatchad420
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 12:07:29 AM
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This is why exclusivity is good, it keeps games from being made to the standard of the lowest common hardware denominator. Hooray for the 360 holding back game development for the PS3 that actually makes use of what's under the hood.
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ffrulez
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 5:24:55 PM
and u cant not call THIS stealing:
the xbox 360 60gb console.
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NiteKrawler
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 12:14:51 AM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 12:24:50 AM
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There wasn't anything wrong with either the PS3 or 360 version of GTAIV, and that's because Rockstar took the extra time to NOT gimp the PS3 version. We should all be very happy about that. And because S-E has been using FFXIII as the debut platform - in terms of development - for years, I seriously doubt we'll see an inferior PS3 version. If anything, we'll see an inferior 360 version.
But once developers have a firm grasp on the PS3, it won't be such a strain to develop games specifically for each platform. Ports between machines will stop, and everything will be simultaneously produced for multiple platforms. That's how I see it going down.
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ffrulez
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 5:19:42 PM
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Mystearica
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 12:47:38 AM
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Then what's stopping the average consumer from buying a "cheaper" console with more games as of now on it? And where the consumers go, suppliers follow. I don't like the trend I'm seeing lately. I just hope I'm wrong.
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Dan
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 2:18:53 AM
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Anyway, there might me be some good news about this.
Think about it for a sec, square always tries to take the ability of a console to the limit. So this can probably show if the PS3's capability is much better than the Xbox.
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Jed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 8:01:00 AM
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daylight_dies
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 7:07:29 AM
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Tatsujin
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 7:41:09 AM
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orangpelupa
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:06:45 AM
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ah i love ff (exept ff x-2 and ff12)
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ffrulez
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Cavan
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:35:12 AM
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ffrulez
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ffrulez
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ffrulez
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ffrulez
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orangpelupa
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 10:20:54 AM
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[quote="Ben Dutka PSXE"]Maybe. But what are the 360's exclusive third-party titles...? Ones that are definitely going to last, I mean?[/quote]
360 exclusive?
Lost Odyssey --> very good RPG IMO
Ace Combat 6
Blue Dragon -> i have nor played it
Eternal sonata (for now) --> good RPG
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 12:38:12 PM
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DalisenE
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 10:31:30 AM
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ffrulez
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DalisenE
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SilverSenshi
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 10:54:56 AM
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Petitions seem popular these days.
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Birdman
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 1:00:37 PM
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FFXIII for the 360, is ghey
don't get me wrong, i'm happy that you guys finally will get a FF title
but i'm just glad, FFVXIII is still ours..
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Zapix
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 3:47:10 PM
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robinhood2010
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 5:01:55 PM
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ffrulez
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 5:27:09 PM
does the 360 have a cell broadband engine with 8 synchronised processors?
does the 360 have blu-ray?
does the 360 have a reality synthesizer video chip?
and does the ps3 overheat?
that should be enough evidence
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ffrulez
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 5:05:24 PM
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orangpelupa
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 @ 8:21:26 AM
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does the 360 have a cell broadband engine with 8 synchronised processors?
> x360 have 3 PPE @ 3.2 GHz IBM PowerPC CPU. while PS3 only have 1 PPE. but ps3 have 6 SPE (1 SPE reserved for GameOS)
PPE is faster than SPE. SPE is like co-processor. altough its slow, but PS3 have many of it (six of them) so ps3 is powerfull in multitaskting.
does the 360 have blu-ray?
> x360 not have it. but it can do multiple disc
does the 360 have a reality synthesizer video chip?
>no, but X360 have Faster Graphic chip from ATi. its the ATi Xenos (R600) with Unified Shader, fast 10 MiB eDram, 512MB shared RAM,(ps3 only have 256MB for Graphic) and many more.
and does the ps3 overheat?
>ps3 not overheat, x360 not overheat. x360 broken because a fatal design flaw :D
my pc run a lot hotter than x360 and its still OK. x360 is just badly designed.
everyone should know that the 360 can barely manage good graphics, and keeping cool, do they actually think that the 360 is better in terms of hardware?
> yes, in terms of graphic power in procedural rendering (the current rendering method, sorry if the name wrong) X360 is faster than PS3.
PS3 is slower than x360 in graphic processor.
BUT, when the game developer has changed the rendering method to Ray Tracing. PS3 will show its fang. (its the power of IBM CELL Processor)
thats what my knowledge tell me, so sorry if im wrong, but im just want to stay neutural and telling the fact and truth.
thanks
a good quote from neowin forum
Efficiency Factor: It will take Xenos 1 generation to output Max theoritical Graphics and it will take around 3 generations for RSX to generate Max theoretical Graphics.
in the long run, PS3 will beat X360
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ActionJackson
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Monday, July 14, 2008 @ 10:10:49 PM
Anyways, my own biggest worry about it being made for the PS3 is Japan. All I can say is, HA! That's what you get M$, Microsoft has been wanting to penetrate into the Japanese market, which with sweet sweet victory, S-E is not going to be releasing FFXIII in Japan. This would possibly be the #1 biggest win for Microsoft in Japan if this one MASSIVE and EXTREMELY POPULAR title made it to the 360 in Japan. But it doesn't, thankfully, S-E is not bothering even making the version.
So in Japan, the PS3 is still an exclusive. This is going to be the reason why people buy the PS3 in Japan, it will be the system seller there in Japan. It should significantly expand the number of PS3's there. Still a win for Sony, I think. S-E is selling the game in the places where the 360 is already popular.
I am hoping this increases the want for JRPG's and Final Fantasy. Now all it takes is Versus to come by and maybe convert some of those 360 owners to buy the exclusive Versus and the PS3, I am hoping. Final Fantasy was, and probably always will be associated with the Play Station brand. So I can't only help but think that anything that s good for FF is good for Sony.