With Final Fantasy XIII finally releasing in North America, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has touched upon the always controversial decision to port the game to Xbox 360. According to Wada, it wasn't a hard decision to make. His team wanted to do it, and the install base was such that it was essentially a no-brainer.
"The Xbox team has been asking us to have a [Final Fantasy] game developed on our platform," explains Wada. "Also, the Xbox 360 console is available in many homes in US and European markets so that was not really a hard decision to make."
Many zealots accused Square Enix of treachery after the fateful 2008 E3 conference when XIII was revealed to be multiplatform, and the subject has been a sore point between opposing gamers ever since. Comparison videos, technical specs, the number of discs, and all sorts of other squabbles have been had over the past months. Now that the games are out, we can all just sit back and be glad that we're actually playing the thing, right?
Square Enix CEO Explains How Final Fantasy XIII Got On The Xbox 360 [Siliconera]
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8:40 AM on 03.10.2010
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Everything should be multiplatform - more money for devs equals more games for us. The more fanboys whine and boycott multiplatform games, the less cool things we get. I think DMC 4 was the first multiplatform announcement by an Eastern dev - I remember all the Xbots saying it was the early end of the PS3.
I suppose that if you are a twelve-year old with a current game console (possibly extorted from your parents with lots of temper tantrums), and you have nothing else to do other than troll on the internet, then you are prime material to be a spoiled little brat.
If you're a 360 fan put off by the talk that the PS3 version is superior, I implore you to give it a shot. I fell in love instantly.
(hint: they look exactly the same in action)
You hate the Japanese so you bought a Japanese game? Lol. Logic ftw!
As a once avid FF fan and an owner of all consoles I wish they weren't so easily bought into porting it. PS3 needs more exclusives and Japanese devs need to know their primary console isn't a dead fish. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey say hi.
Batman: The Animated Series, and Aladdin! Oh those were the days.
"Dude this SNES Genie level is badass"
"What?! The Genesis prison level is better!"
::punch punch punch::
For instance, if Microsoft paid SquareEnix to make exclusive dlc for the Xbox360 version of FFXIII, then I would cry foul. But if all the Xbox360 crowd gets is exactly what's on the PS3 version, then I have no problem with it at all.
It's like MW2. Microsoft paid to get the first round of dlc exclusive for one month and that pisses me off. That shit makes me feel like a second class gamer, since I bought MW2 on the PS3.
I bought a console with a fucking BR drive so that my games could have all the content the devs want to put on there! Not so content can be cut despite fitting on the disc to make it "equal" to a cheaper, feature lacking, behind-the-times console.
Super Cerial.
Asians are the worst.
Is that true, or did you just make that up?
They 'forced' squeenix to remove it, did they?
I don't believe.
http://www.destructoid.com/no-japanese-voices-in-ff-xiii-because-the-xbox-360-ruined-it-131799.phtml
Is it dorky to want to play in japanese with subtitles? Because that's all i wanted and it was spoiled by this game going multi.
Shame.
The only good thing (other than cheevos) I can see in the 360 version is that you can start your next playthrough from Disc 3 and just sell Disc 1 and 2 to some idiot. Up to that point, there isn't much you can vary with anyway. Unless you forget to grab items or waste all your upgrade material on shit :)
As everyone was so quick to point out the japanese audio track was chopped because they were already pushing it when it came to space on the 360 version and the didn't want to alienate the 360 crowd by giving the ps3 version something they didn't have.
That's my only problem with multi plats at the moment, if both consoles can get the product fine, but if the ps3 version has to have features cut out because of it I've got an issue with that. At 65$ a game, cut features is not a word I like to hear.
And then they usually sell it as DLC, that's just adding insult to injury.if one console can do it and the other can't, well that's too bad for it, but to chop it from both versions is just wrong, especially when I still have to pay full price.
This just seems lazy on Square's behalf, they could have easily added the track but they were too worried about pissing off 1/4th of the lesser half of their fanbase. That's just stupid.
Haha, the way you word your articles is just brilliant. Love reading them, Jim.
That's because nothing got cut from the 360 version because of the ps3 version.
Not Dorky - I can understand it.
BlackNexus. That's what I thought. So a little disingenous to say that Xbox forced them to remove it, which was the point I was questioning.
It sucks, and to be honest, I'm an Xboxer with absolutely zero interest in this game, so I would of been happier for it to remain PS3 exclusive, with the Japanese audio.
But business makes money, and Xbox is seriously good business for a games developer.
I don't mind disc switching, but I'd rather NOT do it. I wonder if FF13 ends up "proving" the PS3 is more advance when all is said and done.
Iam Feeling with you! RIGHT NOW IAM REALLY PISSED! I heard this fuckers removed the audio track of the Namibian Bushmen language!!! Could you believe this?
C'mon Sexy
Do you really believe they extra removed it? I think it was just laziness. They only had to put into the jap version the english texts and audios. They didnt. Get over it. Maybe its coming as a free dl? Some games over the chance dl extra language packs for free. At least for the 360. Maybe they get the japs voiceovers. Put i see your not THAT into xbox gaming.
Why not? What can we loose with that?
Exclusives you can be proud of because you have enough money to buy the best system or all of them? Is that what you want most from gaming:
KEEPING THE OTHERS OUT
of your exclusive club? If its so, iam feeling really sad for you.
SithZombie
Halo Reflex ^^ nice one
I dunno, maybe you want to sit there compulsively mashing the X-button spasming out like some sort of compulsive masturbator, drooling "flooow fllooooooooooooooow" for hours. Some of us like strategy.
Oh sweet god I loved the Aladdin game on the Genesis. The part where he escapes the cave was so great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcQfsdTn0Zw