Oh, silly Square Enix, naively attempting to appeal to fanboys with logic. Square Enix has recently addressed accusations of treachery from stupid PlayStation 3 fans who threw a hissy fit when they found out that Final Fantasy XIII was going to appear on the Xbox 360 as well as PS3. Using basic logic, the company has attempted to penetrate the thick skull of the average PS3 obsessive. A noble goal.
"I’d rather they not think of [Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360] as a ‘betrayal’ or disappointment," explained Square Enix Corporate Director Shinji Hashimoto. "It’s not like we’re cancelling or delaying the PS3 version at all! It’s more of an added bonus for 360 fans. We won’t be putting them at a disadvantage in any way."
Fairly simple stuff, but I doubt it will do much to persuade the kind of selfish moron who got melodramatically upset over this. Hashimoto also addressed, for the millionth time, the belief that the PS3 version will be "downgraded" so it can be ported to the 360. Are people still seriously whimpering about that? Apparently so.
"I’d like to add… I think that maybe because it’s going multiplatform that some fans are worried about the game’s scope being reduced to fit onto both consoles," stated Hashimoto. "The fact is, the PS3 version is what’s in development right now, and the team is working to specialize that version to the very best of the PS3’s abilities."
Something most sensible people knew already, but I guess we need to reiterate it for those at the back of the class.
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9:02 AM on 11.28.2008
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haha let the flamming begin!
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FINISH HIM.
"Until the PS3 version is sold in JAPAN, we won't start on the 360 version"
Am I the only one who thinks this is going to be a generic game? Look at sqeenix's last few games...None of them have been great. Some OK, and I mean just slid by the OK watcher at the OK race and a ref didn't call it, kind of OK. It's almost as if Square has said, 'Oh shit these gamers don't know our old tactics and stories, time to recycle.' Is this to prep them for FF13? Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant? They came and went with not a single person I know really considering getting them.
I was joking XD. Bussiness are bussiness and a company like S-E can't risk everything to an only option, even if that option is Sony.
Every gamer deserves to enjoy a game like Final Fantasy XIII.
@anonuser: yea I have infinite discovery and I thorougly enjoy it. It's also not by the FF team, just so you know. I plan on getting Last Remnant as well, which is also by another dev team.
Seriously Squenix should just come to one of these press conferences and shout "YO BIATCHES WE LOVES SOME MONEY", then the fanboys may listen. Probably not.
Now I'll just have to get it on the other console that's made entirely out of shit.
People will always be butt hurt of stuff like this an no sense of reasoning will take that pain away.
1) Will the PS3 version be released in North America when its finished regardless of the state of the Xbox version?
2) If no, then why did Last Remnant come out first in North America?
No one cares about exclusivity.. We're not console fanboys! We're FINAL FANTASY FANBOYS!!! We moved to Sony from Nintendo because you told us to. Had you told us to move to Microsoft from Sony, we would have.. but you didnt. You told us to go buy the expensive box. We want our game NOW! We were willing to pay upwards of $600 for our game now! We don't want to wait for the port and it's simply a double standard to make us.
Square Enix sold their biggest, most loyal fans down the river and they refuse to even acknowledge it.
sony fanboys should be grateful they got MGS4 to be exclusive.
Although two rights make a left...
BETRAYAL!
I would never, ever have bought a PS3 had I known that the game was coming out for the 360.
That makes two of us. The only reasons i wanted to buy a PS3 for was for backwards compatability (which they removed before i had enough money to buy one), and FFXIII. I'll probabley stick the lump on ebay now.
Also i am thrilled sqeenix have stopped this exclusive bullshit. FF are my fav games and yet i never played 10-12 because i flat out refused to buy a PS2 just to play FF on.
BETRAYAL! Yeah, you're twisting the knife!
Thing is, by the same logic, Chrono Trigger should be on DS and PSP, as both could easily achieve the same results.
While I'm happy to see FFXIII on 360 (take note on how to make money, Konami), I too feel that SE have lost their way a lot. Very rarely are any new IP created for home consoles, especially 360, which hit the market before PS3 and deserved something beyond a port of PC FFXI.
Also what SE need to do is try different genre of games. Dissidia is a step in a more positive direction. Dirge of Ceberus showed a certain need to perhaps outsource some IP for the desired effect.
Fanboys are impossible to please most of the time, however, I'd love to see SE outsource some of their IP like Front Mission, to someone else who would create a sweet action game out of it (no not you From Software, someone else).
On a flip side, some fans can also be right. Many gamers requested Chrono Trigger back on GBA, and are only now just getting it on DS. Why it took so long for them to respond to this request I'll never know, as its a SNES game, that only needed porting over. Perhaps flogging FF series first was keeping them busy.
Multiplatform games are a good way to make more money, its that simple.
... Then you're an idiot. Sorry, but I've gotta be frank about this. Hello? If you're old enough to be a Final Fantasy fanboy, then you're old enough to have gathered that consoles often get cheaper and better as they go along. Of course, in the PS3's case it did kinda not get better (lost PS2 compatibility), but still! Idiot.
Mind you, my PS3 has gotten a lot of playtime since I got it, and mostly from console-exclusive games. Super Stardust HD, LittleBigPlanet and Metal Gear Solid 4 are all awesome games, I enjoyed the PS3 version of GTA4 despite it apparently being the inferior version of the two (soon three), and I still haven't even touched Uncharted and Ratchet & Clank.
I bought the 60gig PS3 for $150 bucks. I don't think I'm an idiot.
LittleBigPlanet is completely overrated and MGS4 is one of the shittiest games I've ever played. The only worthwhile game I've played on the PS3 was Tools of Destruction.
Well, THAT does excuse it. 150 dollars for a PS3 is a hell of a deal, and comparable to the price of a low-end Blu-Ray player. Hell, you could Ebay it off at roughly the same price!
Calling MGS4 a shitty game and saying R&C is the ONLY worthwhile game for the console...wtf, are you serious???
A: Because they can. That's why.
Back them it was done this way because they wanted more cinematic games and the limitations of the N64 weren't going to allow them to do what they wanted. Now, they don't have that problem so they don't really need to make games exclusively for any one console and they can make more money.
Let me clarify: I'm talking exclusives. R&C is the only worthwhile exclusive for the PS3.
Was that meant to be an argument? An example of wit? What?
Well fucking played.
Suck it up, jesus christ.
Also Jim only responds to the PS3 > 360 comments, which makes me giggle.
inb4 Jim
Actually I respond to the dumbest comments. Which, incidentally, seem to come mostly from PS3 fanboys.
Inb4 incredibly clevar retortz.