Final Fantasy XIII - Yet another PS3 "exclusive" going to 360?

[Imadogg]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6167864.html

One more platform-exclusive title may be going multiplatform, it has been revealed. The latest news appears to be that Square Enix's latest epic role-playing game, Final Fantasy XIII, may follow other titles--including Saints Row, Assassin's Creed, and Devil May Cry 4--that have now been announced as appearing on at least one other platform as well.

Sony Computer Entertainment France president Georges Fornay dropped the bombshell in an interview with French-language newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (subscription required). He said, "The development costs of games have exploded, and it has become more difficult to have exclusives, outside of our own games. But we have for launch day [in France] 30 games, including MotorStorm, Resistance: Fall of Man, and Virtua Fighter 5. Moreover, we are expecting 200 games [for the PS3] by the end of 2007...As far as Final Fantasy XIII goes, I can tell you that the exclusivity is in discussion."

Fornay went on to say that he believed that the PS3 would be particularly successful in France, and that there had been approximately 60,000 preorders made (compared to 40,000 made for the Xbox 360, and 75,000 for the Wii). France will be getting approximately 150,000 of the 1 million consoles allocated to PAL regions.

He also answered questions about backward compatibility for the next-gen console, responding to fears that the console would not support many PS2 titles without the Emotion Engine. Fornay said, "Now, if you ask me whether this was a blow to the launch, I would say that [Sony] would have done better to be sure that the console would be completely backward compatible before announcing it. But hey, when it becomes clear what the PS3 is capable of, gamers won't really fancy playing PS2 [games] anymore..."

Square Enix had not returned calls to comment as of press time.

Just another rumor to report on. FFXIII on 360. If it happens, at least I had a thread about it.

[detrimental]

Apparently Micrsoft are ravidly chasing MGS and FF for the system. I'd personally hate to see FF go to another system. I'm all for multiplatform development, but Final Fantasy is basically sysnonymous with the Playstation brand. It's one of the things that've made it what it is, and I don't like to see tradition change too much.

[yungflo]

wow man this sucks .

[Imadogg]

Originally Posted by detrimental

Apparently Micrsoft are ravidly chasing MGS and FF for the system. I'd personally hate to see FF go to another system. I'm all for multiplatform development, but Final Fantasy is basically sysnonymous with the Playstation brand. It's one of the things that've made it what it is, and I don't like to see tradition change too much.

Haha of course they're chasing the franchises, who wouldn't?

And I understand how you feel, I'm sure the devs don't wanna do it, but they sorta have to if the dev costs are so high that they have to sell this many hundred thousand or this many million to make a little profit... going multiplatform helps them out.

[yungflo]

If this happens its coming in a 3 disc game pack.

[detrimental]

MGS4 to 360 seems nearly impossible to me. Kojima said that 25GB is not enough, 50GB discs will be required and that 100GB is desirable. Not to take the thread off topic, but this guy is either crazy or he's creating something that'll be major evolution.

[Imadogg]

Originally Posted by detrimental

MGS4 to 360 seems nearly impossible to me. Kojima said that 25GB is not enough, 50GB discs will be required and that 100GB is desirable. Not to take the thread off topic, but this guy is either crazy or he's creating something that'll be major evolution.

If it happens, I'll be damned. Sounds crazy, like who the hell needs that much!?!? Seriously, 25GB is a lot and you need 100!?!??!?!?

[detrimental]

That's what I mean. Dude is just weird, man. He's genius, but he's weird. lol@100GB being desirable... this dude must have like 20 10-terrabyte harddrives