Comments on: Final Fantasy XIII coming to the Xbox 360

By: duke

duke — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:57:39 +0000

yes it’s good….ff13 for xbox 360….but i want ff13 versus for xbox 360

By: Darrien

Darrien — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:32:29 +0000

@Rolando – What with the game already over budget, and the 360 version not building built until localization, the expected multiple discs, and the, what, 600,000 systems actually in Japan’s homes… it’d probably cost a lot more to make copies of than they’d recover in sales.

By: Darrien

Darrien — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:29:51 +0000

Forgot to mention eariler…. best part about the whole thing? Finally got to see the lovely archer lady in motion, if even for a few seconds ^.^

By: Rolando

Rolando — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:43:19 +0000

This wasn’t really a surprise. Once I read about Crystal Tools being a multiplatform engine, I figured FFXIII would eventually be announced for the Xbox 360. What IS surprising, though, is how the Xbox 360 version is only for North America and Europe yet nothing for Japan (as of now anyway). Expected? I suppose.

Can’t wait to see Nintendo’s and Sony’s conferences tomorrow. Maybe Crystal Bearers will _finally_ be shown in some new form?

By: meikiyou

meikiyou — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:31:24 +0000

omg nintendo is next

By: jarrod

jarrod — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:05:59 +0000

@Jaxel

Obviously it’s optional, but it’s a feature that could be used to load an entire multi-disc game and avoid problematic disc swapping. Also, FFXI 360 didn’t ship with a HDD.

@Darrien

Totally agreed with everything, FFXIII 360 makes immediate sense in terms of technology, in a way MGS4 just doesn’t. But in the end I still think market realities will likely deliver the game on 360 in some form eventually. I wouldn’t be surprised to see MGS4 on PC either, maybe even with crossplatform MGO.

By: Darrien

Darrien — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:56:18 +0000

@jarrod – Disc size was just an example I was using. I could go on and on about my thoughts on it (which I started to, but stopped and held backspace after the fourth paragraph…), but in the end, they are just that, MY thoughts. I’m not going to change anyone’s mind about anything, and I accept that, I was just stating my opinion about it. There is one minor difference between the two I’d like to state though. MGS4 was made for the PS3, completely. Kojima has stated that there isn’t anything in the system that they didn’t use at least once. Crystal Tools is made for multiplatform, including Wii. It’d be child’s play to convert FFXIII to 360. It’d be almost completely redeveloping the game to convert MGS4 to the 360.

By: Jaxel

Jaxel — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:55:24 +0000

And another important aspect of the whole full game install thing is that its OPTIONAL. That means the game has to be able to work, without being installed to the hard drive as well.

By: Jaxel

Jaxel — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:53:35 +0000

@jarrod… why are you even bringing up full game installs here? What does it have to do with playing MGS4 on the 360? Besides, this whole full install thing seems like just another way for Microsoft to push sales for their INSANELY OVERPRICED hard drives.

And FFXI, came with the HD. So they could guarantee that anyone who was buying FFXI had the HD. So the least common denominator was a PS2 without a hard drive; because they supplied the hard drive.

By: jarrod

jarrod — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:26:45 +0000

@Jaxel

You’re not listening to me actually. This is a full game install, it runs entirely from the HDD, it’s a new feature. It’s not something that’s been done before on the platform and certainly wasn’t available before.

Besides, Square Enix obviously isn’t afraid of doing a HDD required 360 release given their first game was FFXI… and honestly, there’s likely more 360s with HDDs in consumer’s hands than there are PS3s with HDDs anyway.