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Another thing worth noting is that this could mean other Square Enix games might be headed cross-platform

Kingdom Hearts is a franchise that comes to mind

At 7/14/08 10:15 PM, MojoFilter wrote: Another thing worth noting is that this could mean other Square Enix games might be headed cross-platform

Kingdom Hearts is a franchise that comes to mind

They might offset this huge announcement with secure exclusives like that and that FF vs whatever to stay on the PS3.

I don't know though.

Oh Jeeze

At 7/14/08 10:02 PM, TehreTard wrote: But like what Jerk said, this is a major surprise due to Sony owning some stock shares of SE. You'd think there might be some loyalty because of that, but I guess not.

It's a dual backstabbing (quoting from that news page.) Square Enix seems to show no loyalties. While there is a port for the 360 in the US, it won't happen in Japan due to the low sales for the 360.

Since I do intend to buy a PS3, I will buy it for the PS3, since I don't want to deal with the chance of degraded quality in a port (and I don't want to just play MGS4.)

At 7/14/08 10:25 PM, BlueFlameSkulls wrote: Oh Jeeze

Given Kojima's elitism, a port will never happen.

At 7/14/08 03:15 PM, BlueFlameSkulls wrote:

At 7/14/08 03:14 PM, McPaper wrote: "OH EKSAKUSE ME, DER IS JUST WUN MOR THING"

Is that what he said? I couldn't understand anything he said.

Eurlorpe LMAO, and earlier "I have something i want to shit-share with you."

I've been a small fan of Final Fantasy before losing interest in RPG's for awhile.

Final Fantasy 9 was very fun to me on the original Playstation, and Final Fantasy 7 was also.

I wonder if it's worth getting number 13 however.

I'm starting to lose interest in console games as I look at my fun PC games such as Day of Defeat: Source.

I'm pretty pissed that I sold my Xbox a few weeks ago to buy PS3. FFXIII being one of those reasons. Oh well at least PS3 has got MGS4 as an exclusive.

What the fuck.. This is the worse news ever.

At 7/15/08 12:22 AM, SniperWolf1564 wrote: Given Kojima's elitism, a port will never happen.

MGS [2, was it?] came out on the XBOX so it's not entirely impossible.
Exclusives are silly anyway. Would should like a system based on its merits, not what games it has rights to.

At 7/14/08 05:45 PM, NGCA wrote:

At 7/14/08 05:36 PM, Valjylmyr wrote: Couldn't care less. I lost my interest in FF after VII.

Sad that you lost interest after the most rated one.

Also, I'm happy that Sony is losing their exclusives. I don't believe there should even be exclusives.

It wasn't the first one I played, I had played X, X-2, and XII before VII

At 7/15/08 09:20 AM, NGCA wrote:

At 7/15/08 12:22 AM, SniperWolf1564 wrote: Given Kojima's elitism, a port will never happen.

MGS [2, was it?] came out on the XBOX so it's not entirely impossible.
Exclusives are silly anyway. Would should like a system based on its merits, not what games it has rights to.

I remember Kojima saying something along the lines of "MGS has started on the Playstation, so we will finish it on the PS3." He has kept a very strict stance about it's exclusivity, so don't get your hopes up.

At 7/15/08 09:20 AM, NGCA wrote:

At 7/15/08 12:22 AM, SniperWolf1564 wrote: Given Kojima's elitism, a port will never happen.

MGS [2, was it?] came out on the XBOX so it's not entirely impossible.

As far as I recall, that port sold like shit, was lacking features the PS2 version had, and the controls were awkward.

And has it happened since? Nope.

That's cool and all, but as a Xbox 360 owner, I would have loved to have seen other Sony titles on the Xbox 360, like Metal Gear Solid 4. Still, pretty cool that the 360 is actually going to get a pretty good RPG now instead of the mediocre ones it already has. There are very few good RPG's on the 360, just a bunch of shooters, really.

Eh.

All we need now is your God of War.

This just the way the industry is going. We're entering the stage now where there'll be no such thing as 3rd party exclusives and console purchases will be down the hardware and what 1st party titles you like the look of.

But really, anyone who gives more than a passing interest in 'exclusives' need to shut the fuck up and actually play their consoles instead of getting into some nerd-dick waving competition.

At 7/15/08 11:02 AM, DeathWeapon wrote: This just the way the industry is going. We're entering the stage now where there'll be no such thing as 3rd party exclusives and console purchases will be down the hardware and what 1st party titles you like the look of.

But really, anyone who gives more than a passing interest in 'exclusives' need to shut the fuck up and actually play their consoles instead of getting into some nerd-dick waving competition.

Umm Microsoft is getting a lot of third party exclusives and a ton of timed exclusives. Some of the biggest games of the rest of the year are either 360 exclusives or are timed such as Gears 2 and Rock Band 2.

Yeah, you dont have to get so pissed of just because i was trying to make a point.

Anyway, most people are calling Square Enix the "Judas of video gaming". I can see why. As soon as its announced for the 360 they also announce that it wont be on 360 in the Far East proving how trustworthy and loyal they are.

Its happening a lot now though, i mean Bioshock is coming to PS3. In the end its gonna be almost all multi-platform, which might actually be a good thing. Give awesome exclusive third party companies like Insomniac and Bungie more funding overall and more time and potential for making awesome games.

At 7/14/08 07:45 PM, Kuro wrote: This annoys me, because it makes my future purchases less clear.

Before I was all like "I'm gonna get a PS3, since it has all the good RPGs".

Now Xbox has both Final Fantasy XIII and Star Ocean IV (which is exclusive, but I'm almost certain it will go to PS3 eventually).

The 360 actually has pleanty of (/planned) jRPGS:

Final Fantasy XIII
Lost Odyssey
Blue Dragon
Eternal Sonata
Star Ocean 4
Tales of Vesperia
Infinite Undiscovery
The Last Remnant
Cry On

At 7/15/08 11:32 AM, McPaper wrote: The 360 actually has pleanty of (/planned) jRPGS:

Yeah, the problem is there are no good ones out yet. LO sucked. And BD sucked. and ES sucked.

Final Fantasy XIII
Star Ocean 4
Tales of Vesperia
Infinite Undiscovery
The Last Remnant
Cry On

And these are planned or I haven't played them, so...

At 7/15/08 11:26 AM, DasUberCow wrote: Yeah, you dont have to get so pissed of just because i was trying to make a point.

Anyway, most people are calling Square Enix the "Judas of video gaming". I can see why. As soon as its announced for the 360 they also announce that it wont be on 360 in the Far East proving how trustworthy and loyal they are.

It's not anything against Sony or PS3 owners, there's just a large market for them to reach on the 360. Put yourself into their shoes. You're spending years of time and tens of millions of dollars making Final Fantasy XIII and you want to get the biggest possible return on your investment. Would you make your fans who own a PS3 feel all warm and cuddly becuase the game is exclusive to them or do you make it available to the widest audience possible?

As for the 360 in Japan? I guess there's just no profit in releasing it for the twelve people there who own the system.

At 7/15/08 10:44 AM, NGCA wrote: Eh.

All we need now is your God of War.

Good luck getting a series which is developed and published by Sony ported to the 360.

This is unexpected, and awesome. I should rent it (because c'mon, Square hasn't tried their best in a while.) Hopefully, it will surpass my expectations, and will make me cum 1000 times over.

At 7/15/08 02:14 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Good luck getting a series which is developed and published by Sony ported to the 360.

Doesn't have to be exactly Kratos and the God of War franchise.
Just has to be something copy and pasted with different names and scenery.

Oh lawd, the whole internet is raging at Square atm. Wonder how SDF is going to react to this.

At 7/15/08 02:43 PM, NGCA wrote:

At 7/15/08 02:14 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Good luck getting a series which is developed and published by Sony ported to the 360.

Doesn't have to be exactly Kratos and the God of War franchise.
Just has to be something copy and pasted with different names and scenery.

You mean Ninja Gaiden?

At 7/15/08 03:20 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: You mean Ninja Gaiden?

Aside from the fact that Ninja Gaiden is an extremely old franchise, no.

You know what? I actually am not too angry, in fact, I have created a list of pros and cons:

Pros:

- EVERYBODY will be able to play FF13, being a inner FF fan, I find this makes me a happy person
- SE will probably make more of a profit than simply keeping it PS3 Exclusive.

Cons:

- PS3 suffers
- Microsoft fanboys will be like, "HA! We > You!"
- FF13 will probably go down in quality when it ships, no offense, but its due to making the game the same for X360 and PS3.

The only thing that could possibly counter this is if Gears 2 goes Multi also......

*sigh* one can hope.

At 7/14/08 07:21 PM, DasUberCow wrote: Fanboy stuff

Look kids, another PS3 fanboy, well guess what dasubercow, i have all 3 consoles, take that.

and yet you don't see me going "sony sucks" or "microsoft sucks" or "wiis are for faggots"

It appears to me that a nice little spot is being picked out for the PS3 in the console graveyard. Only a matter of time...

I think the outcries of the PS3 version being limited by it being multiplatform are wrong. FFXIII is being developed on PC and PS3 currently and the 360 build hasn't even started development and won't until the PS3 version is ready and out in Japan. If the 360 can't handle something for some reason, the game will already be out in Japan so it'll be too late to dumb down the PS3 version to match. Really though, I think the 360 will probably be able to handle it, since they're using a multiplatform engine. It'll be on multiple discs, but it'll probably be about the same.