Awwwr, how adorable, it's an ickle baby! Square Enix has revealed that the development of Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 is only two months old, despite being announced a year ago. The publisher has consistently promised that 360 development would be secondary to PS3 development, and seems to have made good on that promise.
"Up to the trial demo version that was released in Japan, [FFXIII] was PS3-only in terms of development," explains producer Yoshinori Kitase. "The Xbox 360 version is definitely following after the PS3 version, but [we] were finally able to come to a point in the PS3 development where some of the staff could take their hands off and start programming the 360 version."
Although development is only two months in, the Xbox 360 version of the game is in a playable state. Should be ready in time for whenever Square Enix decides to finally bring the bloody thing to the West.
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5:00 PM on 06.14.2009
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No, I'm pretty sure it's retarded. Seems like most multi-plat titles have two teams working simulateously on both consoles (GTA4) OR the port gets a full development cycle and comes out much much later (Eternal Sonata, Bioshock). The Xbox is easy to develop for, but they've been working on XIII for what, five years? And the port should be ready in less than one? I'll believe it when I see it. And it sucks, because I DON'T own a PS3 and don't really have the money to pick one up any time soon.
It'd be more accurate to liken development to conception and the release date to birth, so it'd be more accurate to say that the developers of the 360 version are two months pregnant.
Except that that analogy falls apart, too, when you realize that not every game takes nine months from start of development to release date.
Yeah, I'm thinking too hard about this. Sue me.
Ohhhh, wait...
^THIS
Isn't this image pre-rendered?
Why even care then?
@Tha Meat
I agree. Well, I'm most likely gonna get it on PS3 (if time willing).
"Those of you who invested more into your console and went with the PS3 because of, among other things, the PS brands great legacy of exclusives, could have FFXIII now, but MS are paying us so fucking much to make it multiplat that we have got to make you wait till the shitbox version is ready!"
It's all about the fucking money, and those of us who actually hand over the money get screwed. Brilliant.