Square Enix confirms FFXIII for 360

So, how long before the MGS4 360 announcement, then?

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FFXII sold ~2.5m in Japan, 1.8m in the US and 0.8m in Europe.

No-ones saying it’s not big news, but you have to put it in perspective. It’s a third party game going multiformat, for a nth time this generation. I don’t think it’ll win the 360 much in terms of sales – it’ll sell well on the 360, but it won’t kill the PS3, because it’s still coming out on that console.

This looks worse for Sony than it actually is. Game development is now so expensive that big third party exclusives are not viable from a business sense. Coming off the back of a generation where is -was- , and where PS2 was the huge market leader, makes it look like Sony are losing all their games. I don’t think their strategy has changed, it’s just that now, games have to be multiformat to survive, this is just the way the industry is moving towards. FFXIII going to 360 was pretty obvious, if you think about it (I predicted it months ago), because you could see the way the market was shaping up. But it’s not an announcement that’s going to kill Sony, since a large chunk of FFXIII’s sales will still be on PS3. Worldwide, the PS3 version will sell the most.

“ecu – I have to be honest, I completely disagree with you. I think there are a huge amount of people that would have bought a PS3 if FFXIII was an exclusive. Just look at the kick MGS4 gave it. With the best will in the world, Metal Gear is simply not as big a deal as FF. It’s a major, major game.”

It. Is. Still. Coming. Out. On. P.S.3.

-That- is why it’s not as significant as some people are making out. Still huge news, and it’s only a marginally bigger title than MGS in the West. In Europe, even Gran Turismo is a bigger release.

You’re only commenting to see how I might respond.

And for what it’s worth: morriss, stop pouting and do your job.

If I was a game developer I’d be concerned if my staff spent more time playing other people’s games than developing the ones they’re paid to. If my profession was different and I saw staff spending as much, if not more, time making comments than writing news articles I’d be equally concerned (particularly during E3), if not moreso as it suggests and air of pettiness and inability to rise above it all. That’s a privilige for the visitors of the site, not the owners.

We all know how ugly things look when the content creators start trading blows with their punters. It ain’t pretty and it ain’t professional.

This place needs a chatroom. Heh.

Yes Shatner, sir. Sorry Shatner, sir. Please feel that you can undermine me whenever you please, bring my credibility into question and come across as antagonistic and supercilious and not expect to be challenged on it.

In fact, please tell me what my job is as you seem to know much better than I what it is and how it should be done.

I’m dying to know.

Your friend,

Mike

Get a room, you two. Only man love can save you now.

You never were any fun, Blerk.

I’m happy anyway, I’ve been writing since 8am and don’t seem to be able to stop pushing the keys on my keyboard…..

I’m going to bed now. Don’t break the internet overnight.

morriss, if you were being ironic instead of merely petty then I’d have less reason to offer my critique.

I don’t need to know or care what your job is or what it entails. It’s my divine right as visitor of this site to comment on its content as I see fit. I am not required to be qualified in the same skills as you are, nor to be experienced or familiar with your profession in order to pass damning critique should I wish to. I’m not here because I’m one of your chums that’ll make a sarcastic comment in your favour to patch any cracks in a fractured ego.

I do it because I have an opinion and I have the means to express it. It would be a cushy number if I could earn money doing that. It’s probably even better than getting paid to sit around and play games for a living.

The result are back in morriss. Your sense of humour bypass was a resounding success.

I’m with Blerk… and not on the going to bed thing.

Welcome to VG24/7 Shatner a less insular AATG

We should all go to bed together. See who comes out alive.

I don’t kiss nice.

Dragging the conversation kicking and screaming back on track. Couple of things to think about. FFXII sold ~5m copies. This is to an installed user base of well over 100m. 5% of people with a PS2 bought it.

The reason this sort of announcement isn’t so big any more is because the user bases they are going for are much bigger and full of people who don’t give a toss about some strange Japanese RPG. Take a look at the BBC. They aren’t even reporting this “megaton”. They are reporting on the push for the mainstream and have a pic of LBP at the top of the page.

It’s big to the hardcore of gamers, but in the grander scheme of things it’s not going to have that massive an impact.

AATG?

morriss, I expect a meal and a night of dancing before getting horizontal with you. I’m not like your other cheap floozies.

AATG is the EG Freemason society.

Shatner: That’s not what I’ve heard! Still if it’s a meal you want, my local chippy does a mean plaice.

“Sony are doomed. The internet said so. The internet is never wrong.”

Wouldn’t that require them to have eeeked out at least a minor bit of success with the PS3 in the first place?

120 post in 4 hours. You at least can’t deny this is big news on the interwebs right now. *laughs*

Should’ve been Sony “is” doomed.

Nobody ever said it wasn’t big news! ARGH!

You should really give up ecu.

Finger in the wall and all that.

Microsoft is DOOMED!

If a company’s biggest announcement is having a port from another console, then they really are doomed …

And the rest of this boring conference was showing copies of ideas from Sony, Nintendo and Apple!

Trailer is up btw… http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/flv/ff13_trailer.flv

If this isn’t big news, how come it’s generated the longest comments section so far on this site? Pat, you are totally right, as always. Except when you’re talking about the Welsh rugby side, naturally.

I’m so right. I’m never, ever wrong.

*bleeding eyes*

Wow longest comment thread ever?

Look, apart from Gears and Portal 2 (which I’ll get on the PC anyway) it is a bit sad that MS biggest news is getting a game which is on the PS3.

and that isn’t a fanboy talking, thats someone who watched the MS E3 conf.

If Peter Moore was still there he would’ve gotten a new tattoo.

Blerk: Peter was awesome. So sad that he’s over at EA now… not getting nearly enough face time.

I really hope this is a parody… (language, NSFW)

Moderation monster has eaten my post. /o\

Approved.