"No Plans" To Bring Star Ocean: The Last Hope To The PS3

We are well aware that many of our readers are upset with Square-Enix and the perceived shunning of the PlayStation brand this generation. Granted, there is a vocal minority that says, "forgive Square-Enix; they're just trying to expand their business!" Yes, well, if that were the case, why would they remove the PlayStation from their business model and only include the Xbox 360? Take Star Ocean: The Last Hope for instance.

This is a franchise that has never been on a Microsoft console, but we've seen multiple iterations on the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable. Therefore, it makes little sense to ignore the PlayStation 3 for the next installment, but that appears to be what Square-Enix is doing. Various rumors sifted about in 2008, claiming that S-E would bring The Last Hope to Sony's machine - heck, it was even "confirmed" at one point - but those rumors have once again been shot down. During a recent IGN interview, the development team said very specifically that "there are currently no plans for a PlayStation 3 version." It doesn't get any more concrete than that, although if you wanted to play the role of the undying optimist, you could focus on the word, "currently." In other words, if there's enough of a fan clamor to get The Last Hope on the PS3, and the PS3's user base increases (which of course it will), Square-Enix may eventually deliver the game. But at this point, it seems very unlikely, and that's unfortunate.

Does anybody understand this approach? The only viable reason we can come up with is that they started work on the game several years ago, when the PS3 had just arrived and was struggling. S-E wanted to expand westward, the 360 was doing well, and so they figured... Well, you know. But even so, it's tough for PlayStation loyalists to view this as anything but a slap in the face.

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mixedkidbx
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 10:06:45 PM
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SE .... be glad you have FF still cuz if you didn't you would be another company saying goodbye in this economy.

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eLLeJuss
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 11:30:51 PM

ya, you tell em man!

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Scarecrow
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 3:28:37 AM

Same here, in fact I don't think I'll buy any other game that FFXIII and MAYBE Versus from them.

Final Fantasy is all they got, their other series are "ok" to "really bad."

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ps92117
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 10:14:23 PM
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yeah i have gotten tired of screaming at the screen everytime i see square enix name come up so i gave up on them, now i dont realy care if they burn or triumph just as long as i dont see them i am fine

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Common Cence
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 11:31:05 PM

Agreed.

My only problem with square enix is that they're just a bunch of hypocrites.

SE before this gen:"We plan on supporting all platforms equally" (No. of games on the PS3:0)

SE during this Gen:"FFXIII on 360 wasn't betrayal we are just trying to capture a wider audience" (FFXIII turns multiplatform. SO4, IU, and -TLR as of the moment- still exclusive to 360)

SE on platform favoritism:"We don't favor one platform" (see above and Hiroshi Takai)

Basically Hiroshi Takai already told me not to buy TLR on PS3 since it's main problem was the technical aspects and the 360 being much more easier to develop for and using the Unreal Engine which has it's own record with PS3 games using it being delayed, than what does that say about the PS3 version. Three words "Huge Technical Flop"

Last edited by Common Cence on 1/10/2009 11:32:17 PM

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Starkiller
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 10:30:57 PM
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Square is goin down

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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 10:52:40 PM
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Yeah you probly shouldn't trash your entire fanbase. They will come running when they see White Knight Chronicles sales.

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Banky A
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 11:17:20 PM
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I just don't get it.. not even a delayed PS3 release???

:S

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cegmp
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 11:25:33 PM
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It makes perfect sense to me! ... that MS is paying Square.

Last edited by cegmp on 1/9/2009 11:26:06 PM

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caddillac
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 11:36:17 PM
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Yeah I really don't understand this either. Playstation has always been the console to go to for RPGs; so you already know that the Playstation fan base wants RPGs. So I just don't understand why RPG maker would not make games for a fan base that will buy them. It is just stupid.

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Pushtrak
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 11:45:38 PM
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What? You thought Square were going to be loyal to Sony? Anybody? Show of hands?

Did you honestly forget that they spurned Nintendo long ago? They only look after the bottom line. Nobody should be surprised at this.

Square = Jackals.

And, honestly, I haven't been able to really respect their output since they became Squareenix.

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Banky A
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 11:56:47 PM

No, not loyal. But I just didn't expect them to pretty much betray.. again.

They're still putting some Nintendo DS titles out once in a while but there's no point in not giving the PS3 a Star Ocean game.
The series just doesn't fit the green and white (for me). I just think Star Ocean is black (and blue) all the way!! xD

Yeah, that last one had nothing to do with anything but yeah, meh.

:P

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Pushtrak
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 12:07:10 AM

Yep, they are showing the love for the DS in a big way. Which further illustrates my point.

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WorldEndsWithMe
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 12:38:13 AM

Nintendo had to go because the 64 was supposed to be cd based but when they flip flopped on Square and FFVII couldn't fit on a cartridge they had to jump ship for Sony.

THIS move basically takes a stab at everyone who played the previous titles and enjoyed them. If they get a payoff good for them, but look at how JRPGs are doing on 360. Don't these people want sales anymore?

Last edited by WorldEndsWithMe on 1/10/2009 12:38:36 AM

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Banky A
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 1:40:08 AM

Yeah

xD

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AceTatsujin
Friday, January 09, 2009 @ 11:57:53 PM
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I'll put my money somewhere else. The 360 is not worth a single freaking penny out of my pocket. It's an outdated machine with its limited capabilities, aside from its online features which I admire. They either bring it to the PS3, or no love from my wallet. Period.

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ps92117
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 12:14:32 AM
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it is gona be hard to make a series rpg that will outdo ff history which is sad because there has being many other great rpgs that are not even from enix , sadder even still i miss my old school rpgs , much of the new ones dont have the story which in my opinion is what makes rpgs great.

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Spartan 117
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 12:37:46 AM
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I'm sick of people complaining about SE they do care about the Playstation brand look at all the PSP, PS1, and PS2 games they've given us. Now they're moving over to Microsoft. Suck it up they did the same thing with Nintendo. The one thing is PS3 is in bad need of good RPGs to compete with 360's. Other than Valkyria Chronicles which bombed in sales it doesn't have anything.

Last edited by Spartan 117 on 1/10/2009 12:41:20 AM

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Banky A
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 1:45:39 AM

That's good stand up material right there

:P

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ps92117
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 3:21:31 AM

i bet you would say the same thing if halo wehere to come to ps3 " suck it up" right or are you an xbot , and yes you are correct in second part ps3 needs rpgs (though it has more than just vc)would'nt that mean that we need titles like ff13 , yet you tell us to suck it up is'nt that contradictory. dont bring up bioshock cause you very well know that is'nt a decade old partnership, if you want to attack ps3 start of by talking bout how sony is incapable of buying exclusives that is something we can all agree with, and that is something u xbot should be very happy bout cause if sony where smart enough to buy exclusivity u would not have gta4 or ff13 and ps3 would not be in third place

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King James
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 1:16:16 PM

Yea u told them Spartan. Sony needs a RPG to compete with The Last Remnant and Infinite Undiscovery.

LOL. Tool.

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Spartan 117
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 3:10:48 PM

James I meant Fable, Star Ocean, and Blue Dragon. Plus White Knight Chronicles sucks it only got a 29/40 in Famitsu.

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LegendaryWolfeh
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 5:45:46 PM

Wow Spartan, before rambling off BS maybe you should read up on shit, one thing Famitsu didn't say WKC sucked, they said the online portion was, and that the single player was awsome, so you're wrong there. Also Fable I can easily live without, I've seen it, played it, hated it. Star Ocean, not even out yet, but if you use past experiences, then it'll probably be pretty good, and Blue Dragon, eh, just another game based off an anime/manga that uses 4 disks to play. Valkyria Chronicles was great and easily runs circles around Blue Dragon and more then likely Fable, depending on the person playing. But yes, the ps3 needs RPG's and they're being shafted by a company that is saying it's neutral and wants to make things for all, but totally drops one and works for one it has never worked for before.

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King James
Sunday, January 11, 2009 @ 12:09:11 PM

@Spartan
-Fable.."good but not great"
-Star Ocean..."Not out yet"
-And how can I describe Blue Dragon in one word?..."AVERAGE"

OMG!!! *gasp* How can Sony complete with such mediocrity?

And once again Spartan u told them! WKC does suck because u played it b4 everybody else here, right? Whatever Famitsu says must be right according to you. They're NEVER wrong. Guess we all gotta go buy Haze? Famitsu gave that a high score. LOL!!!!

Tool. U moving like some type of robot.

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Spartan 117
Sunday, January 11, 2009 @ 9:21:00 PM

King James
Fable 2-GOTY from X play and Joystiq
Star Ocean- The rest of the games have been awesome (and if you're using the isn't out yet argument than shut up about KZ2 the first one sucked.)
Blue Dragon-true it was average but it's better than anything PS3 can come up with.
Also I forgot mass effect in my earlier post.

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shindelion
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 1:21:21 AM
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This news piss the $#!# out of me. I have all of the star ocean games and was expecting this one to come out on the PS3 and now i would have to get a next game machine to play it? sigh, man i was a big fan but they just lost me. Now I'm not sure if i will get the PSP version of star ocean 2 I'll just keep on playing the PlayStation version. Right now i feel like to hell with Square-Enix, it may seems MS money talks more than their fans.

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Banky A
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 1:48:51 AM

Yeah, I'm also pi$$ed because I know this game would be super fun for me. Star Ocean games always are.

Hopefully my neighbour gets it and I can envy him all day.. actually, maybe he shouldn't get it xD

:P

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BigT_1980
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 1:36:22 AM
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I have a little faith that Star Ocean IV will be on the PS3 as well mainly because the box art for the game doesn't say "Only on XBox" on it and the user install base has gotten much larger over the course of last year for the PS3 and it continues to catch up with the 360. If and when the PS3 outsells the 360 you will be seeing either all SE titles go multi-plat or more exclusives on the PS3. Just because they are not developing it now doesn't mean they might not in the future.

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WorldEndsWithMe
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 2:29:19 AM

I hope you're right, I think Eternal Sonata was another "no plans for PS3" at the beginning, even though rumors were already flying.

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ec0li
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 3:08:13 AM

I agree. PS3 is gonna see SO4 sometime in the future. The only problem is that it's going to be probably a year late and games that are a year late no matter how good it might be gets neglected. example-Bioshock

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Fane1024
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 2:32:19 PM

...not to mention BioShock.

I am, however, stunned that so many Japanese companies are releasing their games only on a system which STILL won't sell in Japan.

Monster Hunter 3 going to the Wii I understand, but this is just baffling from a business standpoint, no matter how much money Microsoft may have offered them.

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weeee
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 4:26:39 AM
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WTF THATS JUST RIDICULOUS TO PUT IT ON FAILBOX.

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karneli lll
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 5:29:28 AM
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Its safe to say after ff13 and versus, SE is going to be in trouble

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Alienange
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 6:36:08 PM

Is that you karneli ? I love Naruto, but your old pic was the bomb.

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orangpelupa
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 7:14:07 AM
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"there are currently no plans for a PlayStation 3 version."

and in the near future SE with have plan to release it on PS3.

just like eternal sonata....

only timed exclussive

Last edited by orangpelupa on 1/10/2009 7:14:39 AM

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Bardock617
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 8:41:13 AM
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they so lied and are screwing over Sony. i can clearly remember and im sure most people do(my friends do too) that Square Enix after the release of Blue Dragon released a statement saying they will no longer do 360 Exclusives. but meanwhile this shows the contrary. SE says one thing but then MS flashes some big bucks and they're sold on it. i mean, The Last Remnant was supposed to be a simultaneous release for PS3, 360 but MS payed up big time to get it as a timed exclusive. only reason i still support SE is Dragon Quest.

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WorldEndsWithMe
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 2:04:07 PM

Unfortunately since the 360 version was poop, even if Last Remnant is made better for PS3 those old scores will loom and sales will be small. After this SE will just be like "Oh our sh*t doesn't sell on PS3, F them"

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rell
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 8:57:43 AM
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Yeah I think M$ payed square enix to get so4, In my opinion I find it rather odd that ff13 was a ps3 exclusive but getting port to the 360 also now ok 360 get a ported and now playstation fans have to wait even longer for ff13 because it going to the 360. Why not square enix bring out ff13 now on the ps3 and let 360 owners wait until u finish theres. I heard they almost finish ps3 version. We all know rpgs on the 360 don't sell well majority 360 owners don't care about rpgs. I don't have a problem with games going multiplatforms its just that I don't like how some developers say the user base on the ps3 is small and they don't know whats its like to sell a game on the ps3 we all know our rpgs user base of the ps3 is more then the 360 rpgs base is small and there rpgs lags terrible. Valkyrie chronicles could have sold more but it wasn't advertises in commercial in the usa. Sony only advertises the first party titles and not third party thats up to the third party developers its not sony responsibility.

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Zorigo
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 10:01:12 AM
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doesn't bother me

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shadowpal2
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 10:12:42 AM
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I hope this isn't true but maybe Square Enix is just........lazy. Sure sure they're spitting out many games and stuff and always manage to dazzle us with their FFXIII and FF Versus XIII info. But..........it seems like almost as if they don't want to try and spend too much time on the PS3. I MEAN......they love the PSP....and Xbox 360. Those are two systems where making games for is really simple. I always manage to love their PSP games. I'm not too sure about their 360 games since I haven't played one. I mean yea...they made FFXIII for it or are probably near finishing it but that E3 08 announcement kind of made me feel like...."YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE EXHAUSTED...WE DEFINITELY NEED MORE FROM THIS HARD WORK...so now we're just going to stick to the xbox 360 to you know....make some easy money."

I mean yea it's a tough economy...and super hard to just go exclusive on one platform - but however if you do your best to master a platform like Hideo Kojima did and the guys at Guerilla probably did (we'll know soon enough) - then you'll get a good amount of success.

Hasn't Star Ocean been pretty much on Playstation???? Like every single one of them I mean???? It'd be insane not to bring this one to the Playstation brand. But oh well...what can you do.

Our Last Hope from Square Enix would be....FF Versus XIII really. Gotta love Tetsuya Nomura.

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WorldEndsWithMe
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 2:06:25 PM

I assure you the only reason they love the PSP is because M$ doesn't have a handheld. If they did, we would all still be upset about Crisis Core going to the XPad XTablet or some such nonsense.

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Mornelithe
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 10:39:26 AM
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Nah, I think MS paid them a truckload to keep some exclusivity. Sad part is, I don't buy multi-platform games for my PS3 anymore. I built a monster PC rig that is well...to be frank, better than the PS3 and 360 combined. (GTX260 Core 216, Core 2 Quad Q9400, 2000 MHZ DDR3 RAM, etc...). No point in buying this stuff anymore, I can just download it when it comes out for PC.

So, that leaves me with PS3 exclusives, which means, the only thing SE is putting out in the next year or two, that I have a chance of buying, is FFXIII versus.

Great business Strategy Enix.

Morne

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Mornelithe
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 10:43:47 AM
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Oh by the way, it takes about 2 hours to hack a 360, so if you really want mess with Enix, go that route. Have friends who've bought 1 360 game legally (to play online - GTAIV) and have roughly 100 freebies ;) GG MS ;)

Morne

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Ultimadream
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 12:28:30 PM
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oh come on!!!!!!! if the 360 is getting FF13 we at least deserve This, im not happy.

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King James
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 1:19:57 PM
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lol...Square-Enix has done it again. S-E reminds me of this girl i knew that had all this potential to do big things in her life, but she started hanging out with the wrong crowd and f'd up her rep and possibly her future. All b/c she said "I need to try new things."

Sidenote: I HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS IN THE FORUMS. What do u think S-E should do to get the Sony fanbase back?

Last edited by King James on 1/10/2009 1:21:24 PM

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ps92117
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 2:12:46 PM

i am more than sure that if se does an exclusive remake of ff7, most of us would be back to praising them. in the other hand if that one where to be none exclusive se would loose 90 percent of the remaining fan , probably never to recover again

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Banky A
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 2:39:04 PM

Yeah and it S-E also reminds me of a girl that used to be so popular and hot but then she just got lazy and started caring less.

Thinking that popularity is more important and eventually becoming some sort of slut/whore.

LOLz!

:P

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King James
Sunday, January 11, 2009 @ 12:13:03 PM

U mean a girl that was hot and popular then went away and came back fat and stuck-up? lol

Last edited by King James on 1/11/2009 12:13:27 PM

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Banky A
Sunday, January 11, 2009 @ 2:32:09 PM

Naw, I do mean whatever I said lolz

xD

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LightShow
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 5:13:50 PM
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well, sh** happens...

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BigBoss4ever
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 5:14:54 PM
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I only have one comment for this: Fire the top heads of Square that is responsible for its business plan, period. as i said many times before for other Squre related news.

Last edited by BigBoss4ever on 1/10/2009 5:15:01 PM

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Alienange
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 6:52:33 PM
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It's hard for me to hate SE despite some recent bad moves on their part. Who else can we turn to? The sheer volume of RPGs that they have released is unmatched by any other developer. All their releases aren't the best, but at least they're MAKING RPGs. It sux to high heaven that they're making 360 exclusives that's for sure, but let's face it, "No plans" = "can't confirm at this time."

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Common Cence
Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 11:34:13 PM
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SE is using the no plans for a PS3 version as of the moment so that if SO4 flops in sales they're going to port it emphasis on the term port it to the PS3 to gain sales with little to no effort.

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Orvisman
Sunday, January 11, 2009 @ 11:31:37 PM
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Of course it makes little sense. JRPGs sell very poorly outside of Japan. Only the hardcore of the 'core even play JRPGs anymore.

They, however, still sell in Japan to some extent; so what does SqueEnix do, they put Star Ocean on the 360 where it will probably sell very poorly.

If, however, they put it on the PS3, it would sell a fair sight better in Japan.

It makes very liitle sense from a business perspective.

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opsdaddy
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 @ 1:02:03 PM
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@Ultimadream: You sir, are my hero. I can't tell you how many times I nod/shout/laugh in agreement with your posts. Keep up the good fight!

C'mon guys, just how many snubbings are we willing to take from S-E? I for one will NOT be purchasing FF XIII because I refuse to support a developer that so clearly DOES NOT support this platform. I was such a HUGE fan of Square back in the day, but frankly, I'm tired of all the heartache. I'm SO hoping that White Knight Chronicles is superb, as I need to find a way to move on and not look back.

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