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Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360!
Published on: July 14th, 2008 by Josh | 1,001 views 
(No Ratings Yet)Hey everyone,
As many of you will know, today marked the beginning of E3 2008 in Los Angeles - the event began as scheduled with a Microsoft Press Conference, however what we didn’t expect is that Square Enix’s president, Yoichi Wada would be a guest speaker for Microsoft. As you can probably imagine, Yoichi Wada spoke about many of the Xbox 360’s upcoming titles such as Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope and The Last Remnant - however what we really didn’t expect was that Yoichi Wada was going to announce Final Fantasy XIII for the Xbox 360!
After speaking about three of the Xbox 360’s most anticipated titles, Wada left the stage; only to run back on moments later and announce Final Fantasy XIII. The room went black, and a brand new Final Fantasy XIII trailer was shown on the screen behind the man.
During the Square Enix Press Conference Yoshinori Kitase, Final Fantasy XIII’s Producer was interviewed during a Q&A session, one interesting question was raised regarding whether or not Final Fantasy Versus XIII would remain a PlayStation 3 exclusive; Kitase confirmed that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would not be coming out for the Xbox 360. He also confirmed that Final Fantasy XIII would still be released for the PlayStation 3, and that the predicted “wordwide release” was not set in stone.
Square Enix probably made the decision to bring the game to the Xbox 360 for a number of reasons, one been that of late it’s common knowledge that Square Enix is losing money - another reason could be that the PlayStation 3 uses asymetrical cell processor architecture, making it far more difficult to develop games for than other consoles such as the Xbox 360 and even the PlayStation 2.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
i think that Square Enix is doing a good job with making that
descion. I was actually shocked when i saw that, but i think this
is a good opportunity for Microsoft maybe more games that were
squareenix’s will go to the Xbox 360. But i think that theres a
possibility that Final fantasy versus 13 will come to the 360 but
the reason why the president said that it wouldnt was because its
just a marketing procedure that lets him see how the sales will go.
This also tells us that sony is not doing there job. lol This could
also lead to another conclusion if microsoft could take one of
sonys biggest exclusive that means they could take maybe a bigger
exclusive such as kingdom hearts. but its just a theory
July 18th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
It’s become quite clear that the Xbox 360 is taking a lot of titles that were previously PlayStation exclusives, and I believe this is a good thing - I mean what’s the point in limiting a games audience? Having Final Fantasy on Xbox 360 is a sign of good things to come, though I doubt Final Fantasy Versus XIII will make the leap just yet as that would destroy Sony fanboys. Though I’m sure Square Enix have thought about it.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
“another reason could be that the PlayStation 3 uses asymetrical
cell processor architecture, making it far more difficult to
develop games for than other consoles such as the Xbox 360 and even
the PlayStation 2.” No that wouldn’t be it, because they’re making
the PS3 versions before they make the 360 version.
July 20th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Well you see, originally Square Enix had planned to use the PlayStation’s cell processor to it’s full extent; making the games visuals far superior to that of anything that could ever be produced on the 360 - however in porting the game to 360 they’ve had to reduce the graphics, meaning that the cell processor is easier to work with as it’s not utilizing it to it’s full extent.
This speeds up the production process of the game.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
From what I heard I gather that FF XII would be receiving similar
treatment to say Bioshock that will be ported to the ps3. Bioshock
came out on the Xbox360 first, received a lot of acclaim and sales,
and it was then announced it would be ported over to the ps3 in
near future. FF XII will be coming to the PS3 first, and it will
then be ported over to the Xbox360. I’d put money on it. I own a
bit of stock in square-enix believe it or not. Its suffered quite a
stump over the past couple of months, and its now recovering. The
turning point pretty much happened when this was announced. I
suspect Microsoft has encouraged square quite a bit to announce
this, and square felt pressurised by the falling stock price. To be
honest I don’t really care. The console war is a massive bunch or
hype fuelled mainly by internet Geeks. The way I see it, This means
that there will be more sales, that’ll lead to square being more
successful, and me getting better shares. so its a win situation
for me.