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It looks like there is yet another case of a developer not showing the Xbox 360 the sort of love that it so craves as a lonely American console in a Japanese game world. The latest rumblings come from a Square Enix executive who is quoted as telling Japan's Nikkei BP that they have no intentions of blessing the Microsoft console with any new Final Fantasy games. When Shinji Hashimoto was asked by Nikkei BP if the Xbox 360 would be getting any new FF games, the answer was clear: "For the Wii, we have FF Crystal Chronicles in production," replied Hashimoto. "As for FF on the Xbox 360, it's currently a completely blank page." I guess this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, since Sony must be doing everything in its power behind the scenes to keep some guys on their side. After all, they have been hemorrhaging exclusives left and right. I'm not so sure Xbox fans are going to care too much about Crystal Chronicles, but Final Fantasy games are still considered system sellers to many people. If the pain is too much to bear, you can still drop the cash on a shiny new PlayStation 3, or just go back and play the Xbox 360 port of Final Fantasy XI. [Via IGN]
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You drop a couple of atomic bombs on a country and all of a sudden they are all upity about releasing games to you. Babies.
"you can still drop the cash on a shiny new PlayStation 3, or just go back and play the Xbox 360 port of Final Fantasy XI"
Both sound painful. Good job on the pic, I laughed.
Wow. Good news for Sony? Is that possible?
Fuck it!
I'm choosing to focus on the word "currently". I'm hoping that whilst at the moment they have nothing being worked on for it, they aren't going to completely ignore the 360...
Butt-fucking assholes.
WAS IT THE NUK35?!
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Judging by that quote, wouldn't that just mean that there aren't any games in development specifically for the 360?
I have FFVI on my GBA. Don't care.
I couldn't give two fucks about Final Fantasy now that Sakaguchi and Uematsu are off the team. In fact I'm more excited about their Xbox 360 projects than I've ever been for an FF game.
"Blank page"s can be filled, of course. I wouldn't rule out an eventual FF appearance on the 360 quite yet, but this is obviously going to be a huge bit of rare good news for Sony. I think any third party that doesn't release on both consoles without some SEVERE palm greasing is pretty dumb, to be honest. I just hope Sony's paying Square-Enix enough.
It's really not smart to stay exclusive in the current climate.
Now, forgive me for my ignorance, but I never played FFXI on 360, nor do I know much about it. Was it any good? Wikipedia can only tell me so much.
I don't mind too much. FF has never really been my thing, although FFXIII looks pretty good. The 360 has never really been anRPG console anyways.
@Dan, you pay per month to play online. Nuff said.
There are certainly a lot of hardcore FF fans out there, but I'm not one of them. This is definitely good news for Sony, but it doesn't phase me at all. Turn-based gameplay was a result of innovative game design during an age of less powerful machines. We don't need unions anymore and we don't need turn-based RPGs, neither. Now, if they made a FF game that wasn't turn-based...
So what happened to that statement a few months ago about the possibility of a 360 FF game in some form? I highly doubt SquareEnix was implying a Wii version of some installment of FFXIII.
I hate final fantasy anyways, LOL
if i read this before ff12 came out, i would have been totaly heartbroken, but ff12 showed me that, final fantasy games arn't what they used to be. this does not actually come as this much of a blwo to me anymore. i always said, metal gear and ff13, are the reason i would buy a PStriple, but come on! im not spending £500 on a console for one game, even more so if its as disapointing as ff12.
Pay-per-month Final Fantasy? Well I definitely won't be looking into that then! Robbing gits!
If only it was possible to send a shout to all the numerous trolls on forums proclaiming the arrival of the FF King to the 360.
I guess this doesn't apply to the people who stopped playing Final Fantasy after VII.
Now 'Lost Odyssey,' that there's a looker I might sink my teeth into.
Hmm. I own a PStripplez but I lost interest after hearing they were going back to turn-based battles, the biffing was spiffing in 12, just the story that let it down (is this the same arian from before, or a new one? What? Who just died? Everyone's wearing masks, wtf?)
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ff12 disapointing?
ff12 showed that ff isn't what it used to be?
Are actually playing the same game that myself and others enjoyed. FF12 is a serious step in the right direction and is better than the post ff7 titles.
What's an xbox
Oh No! Where will I go for my semi-annual androgynous ladyboy heros, and convoluted romance novel plots??
Pfft, when they do release some Final Fantasy titles (which they will) I won't be buying them.
I actually am not liking 12, I struggle to pick it up so I can beat it. I think I try to like it because I'm "supposed" to like Final Fantasy games. I did like 10's story, and I'm pretty sure that makes me gay.
I liked FF12 a lot. The battle system was cool (albeit slightly flawed) and the story was a refreshing change from the usual vague cliched anime style narratives they've been doing.
As for this news, it won't make me buy a PS3x especially considering that Blue Dragon, Lost Oddyssey, Last Remnant and whatever that other RPG Sakaguchi is working on is coming to 360. I'd rather wait to play it after the PS3 drops to $250 (in 8 years).
In my 0pinion square enix can suck it. you here me squarnix suck it. most of your games are just overated weenie fests anyways. you are teh suck
I haven't really like a Final Fantasy game since IX, and even that I only liked because it reminded me of IV.
Final Fantasy pretty much died for ne when the original creative team left. They are less true to their roots than the Star Wars prequels were to theirs.
That being said, I would imagine the relatively shitty sales of Blue Dragon on the 360 n Japan is the main reason no FF games are currently planned for the console. If Blue Dragon does well in the states, I bet a FF game may come to the 360.
I'm pretty sure Blue Dragon is the best selling 360 game in Japan's history, but that's like being the least dorky cosplayer at an anime convention. Still pretty far from "awesome".
Sadly, Grapefruit Juice speaks the truth...at least post-FFVI.
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Se and their megaman-itis.
blow me if you think the FF series is still relevant.
Oh well then. Guess that's another generation of Final Fantasy games I won't be spending money on.
I'm sorry, but there's no way I'm buying a PS3 just to play Final Fantasy. Hell, for five hundred and ninety nine us dollars, no single game is going to push me over the edge.
I hope there are still enough fanboys left to blindly buy ever SquareEnix game. I hope these fanboys are also rich.
There's no time for Xbox 360 owners to play boring RPGS with all those first person shooters they have anyway!
Meh.
I'll get my turn-based RPG fix from Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey and probably some other game. I've always lost my interest while playing the FF games, but I've played them only on PC (which from my understanding blow compared to the PS# versions).
at least there's love share on Eternal Sonata...
and i can't wait for Lost Odssey...i was drooling at the opening movie....
don't know how Last Remnent will turn out but at least it's from SqueEnix..
Hmm, so I guess I do still have at least one reason to eventually get a PS3 some time down the line, after they finally drop the price to a reasonable amount.
After playing through the travesty which is FF XII, I can honestly say this is not really that big a deal. I've said it once and I'll say it again...the pinnacle of the FF series happened at VI and VII. It's been all downhill since.
Jim Sterling:
While I'm inclined to agree with your closing statement I recall reading a 'study' a while back which claimed that format exclusive games sell better. I can't for the life of me find a link to back that up and as such lack quantitative data. Given the territorial nature of a lot of videogamers (i.e. a fair proportion are fanboy wankers) this wouldn't greatly surprise me though.
Just something to think about.
Yeah they say it now but they're going to change their mind real fast when NOBODY BUYS IT
Watch it get annouced for 360 in a few months.
i really don't care, i was never a FF fan. it is strange tho that with all the money to be made from the millions of 360 owners they choose to shoot themselves in the wallet by sticking with Sony despite the PS3's dismal sales.
i honestly had no expectation whatsoever that FFXIII was coming to x360 .....this didn't come as any sort of surprise at all....this is almost as boring of an announcement as that xbla pacman
My theory is that X-Box owners don't want FF games because they want to play them. They just want to fuck over Sony fans who can't seem to shut up about the most overrated franchise in history.
Typical of console fanboys - were this another case of Sony losing FF as an exclusive, you'd all be jumping for joy right now, talking up how great Square Enix are, and you know it.
Instead, Sony got some good news - and you all couldn't piss in their Cheerios. BOOOO HOOOOO AHOOOOOOOOO, deal with it.
That sucks, I've never played any of the FF games. I was sort of hoping to be able to play them without having to buy another console (which, BTW, I won't).
If it were any other game, I could just play it at a friend's house, but an RPG isn't the sort of game you just bogart someone's tv for 40 or 50 hours
...seems kinda rude
I really don't think xbox people care, I can't speak for them, but I think they are more of the american game breed. HOW MANY Crystal Chronicals are they going to make for nintendo?!, GOL! Isn't it already on the cube and the ds?
I was kind of hoping that there'd be a FF title on the 360, but I guess that just leaves a reason for me to pick up a PS3 in the future.
comradetrotskii:
While I imagine they may sell well on the one system (for instance, a PS3 exclusive will sell better on the PS3 than one that can be bought on the 360 as well) I'd be surprised if they sell better overall. It just makes more sense to have the game as widely available as possible.
Also, when was this study? Was it before the PS3? I think they'd change their minds.
I find the flip flopping very entertaining. On one side you got Xbox 360 fanboys complaining that the PS3 won't do well to its "bleeding exclusives", then in this case you have the PS3 holding on to one exclusive and people go wild. "I never liked FF anyways", "It's SE's Loss", "FUCK YOU SONY!". Very very entertaining for me :) and I don't even own a ps3 yet.
@JimSterling
It is hard to gauge properly, for example, We'll take Splinter Cell vs MGS. Splinter cell totals about 5.3mil spread across the PS2 (2.4m) and Xbox (2.9m). MGS2 did 5.5 on the ps2 alone, and then after the later release on the xbox did not even hit 1m copies sold (I couldn't find an exact number, I just know it was under 1m in all regions).
So, while in this case Ubisoft made out like bandits, and reaped the benefits from a multi-console release, Konami received no benefits from releasing their offering on another console, in fact it was probably a losing venture.
Too many factors come into play on this to say it is the multi-console release that causes this, we have popularity of the franchise, quality of the game, install base, and popularity of the console by region that plays into how well a game does.
Porting costs money, and sometimes it doesn't always pay off. Right now I think both console sales are two low to start up a port this late in the development cycle, the costs would have a higher chance of not paying off. We see Capcom taking this position, they are unwilling to port over projects they have completed or are near completion, but they seem to be starting most, if not all, of their new projects in parallel.
The third party companies are taking a risk with not going multi-console. They seem to weigh the risk that their title may not sell well enough on a single console lower than the risk of a multi-console port not making back the investment. Why do extra work if it won't pay off? Especially if the whole thing might not pay off in the first place.
Exclusives don't bother me one way or another, I'm one of those people that end up buying most, if not all, consoles each generation. Personally tho, I'd rather not have a company cripple a game for the lowest common denominator. Whether that means leaving content out, changing gameplay or reducing graphics.
ArrestedDeveloper won with the very first comment. I tip my derby hat to you sir.
It's coming to 360
Evidence
"Devil May Cry 4 is PS3 Exclusive"
Jim:
Before the PS3 ( I think). I'm not saying I agree with it but lacking figures to actually back anything up either way I can't really make a call.
Like I say I'm inclined to agree with your good self but I also dont want to anger the analysts. Those guys do a good job.