Square Enix confirms FFXIII for 360

This is going to get very messy.

Holy hell…

Holy fucking shit…

HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT! :-O

The internet just melted.

Wonder how much this stunt costed MS.

:-O

I called it. \o/

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Head back on shoulders. Ahem.

This is nothing short of disastrous for Sony. Disaster. What are they thinking? Why did they not tie this up years ago? Are they mad?

There will be blood… seriously.

Money talks …

Why do you care, morriss? You have a PS3!

This is just getting childish…

Did he mention Versus?

Disaster. Oh lol.

Anyway in more hyperbolic news, this has saved the Conference. In fact it may well be the announcement of the show.

I bet Square placate the PS3 show by saying that Versus 13 is still exclusive or some such shit.

Fucking Square.

I do love this though, Psycho go find out how much MS paid for this. I really want to know.

NEWS JUST IN. MS has bought DQ 9 and are getting an emulator running on the 360. JAPAN EXPLODES.

Blerk – No. Just XIII.

I bet the PS3 will still get it first. If it was a simultaneous release, then he would have said, like they did with GTAIV.

I see.

And it is still coming to PS3, right?

/starts more rumours

I have both consoles (360/PS3).
But I would never buy this for the 360, even if it was half the price.
*being really angry about this MS-stunt* :grrr:

Well, they didn’t get Japan so there’s some solace there for Sony. Not that it made any sense for SE to bother with a 360 release for Japan.

I only care insomuch that it’s huge fucking news.

If Sony announced Halo I’d've done the same.

The internet HAS melted! EG forums – gone. NeoGAF – gone. Kotaku – slow as fuck. IGN – almost stone dead. lol!

I guess we’ll just have to wish them luck with cramming it onto a (or several) DVD9 then.

Sony are fucked though. They really do have nothing left anymore.

Colour me surprised!

I don’t remember if the dude said anything about Versus. How much do you think Microsoft paid for this little stunt?

It would be good if Sony called it a day and went the way of Sega. Most Sony titles are quite nice.

Poor bastards.

What’s crazy is that no-one saw it coming.

Hi, Roy.

@ ecu
Jojstiq reports that it will be released the same day as PS3:

“Sorry, Sony. The Xbox 360 is finally going to get a blockbuster RPG. Square has announced at the Microsoft press conference that Final Fantasy XIII is going to be released on Xbox 360 the same day as PS3 in North America and Europe. What a huge coup for Microsoft, and what a great piece of news for Xbox 360 owners who also happen to be great console RPG lovers.”

That is a bona fide megaton. Wow.

Oh shit wait… what if Sony traded exclusivity on this for a FFVII remake? The internets would die for a second time in two days.

That’s my prediction.

Supposedly it’s not going to the 360 in Japan, only in the West.

“great console RPG lovers.”

snigger.

@Psycho: What’s even crazier is that everyone joked about it happening. And then it did.

NA only, it seems.

Doesn’t Star Ocean already count as a blockbuster RPG? Silly Joystiq.

Anyway, where’s that Resi 5 media, Pat?

Microsoft must have paid a fortune for this. I wonder if it’ll be worth the effort in terms of sales?

ecu: Where did you read that Japan wasn’t getting it? That seems like madness to me.

morriss: That was the impression I got from the feed… but I can’t remember why.

Everyone seems to be talking about it. No idea where it came from, just seen people mention it in various places. Some places are even saying it’s NA only on the 360.

EG is saying, “Will be out same time as PS3.”

And Square totally went back on their promise to support all the consoles. “we won’t let one console dominate like before” but we can now assume that meant they didn’t want Sony to dominate again. Do they even have any other exclusive PS3 games in development except Versus XIII (which we can assume won’t be PS3 exclusive anyway).

Yeah, it’s out the same time. The quality was too bad to make out the words on the screen of my stream, so I missed it.

From the EG live text feed:

“Available on Xbox 360 at launch in North America and Europe.”

I’m sure this’ll all be clarified over E3.

I’m loving the 360 “bah, FF is all cutscenes and summons, you don’t actually play anything” rhetoric that’s, amazingly, vanished in a puff of hypocrisy.

Dunno how big it compares outside of Japan but we all know Japan pretty much take a holiday for Final Fantasy releases and Dragon Quest releases.

No Japan = severely softened impact.

Whatever MS paid for it, not getting it on 360s in Japan is a huge missed oppurtunity to shift hardware in the region. I also undermines everything they’ve said about being serious about Japan.

Still, the 360 hardcore’s attitude u-turn on Final Fantasy is comedy gold.

This is mental. How the hell did they manage it?

On closer inspection, I’m really puzzled as to how they didn’t get it on 360′s in Japan.

The game will be in Japanese anyway – it’s not like they’re going to have to localise it just to cover that region.

The game will be on 360′s anyway – it’s not like it’s a new development project just for that platform.

Either way, all the work is getting done it just somehow isn’t coming out in Japan…

…there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Spiral: Lots and lots of money.