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Despite a slew of reports “confirming” Final Fantasy XIII for Windows in the past 24 hours, Square Enix has told VG247 this morning that nothing of the sort is planned.
“We have no current plans to release Final Fantasy XIII for PCs,” said a company rep.
The chatter appears to have arisen from the fact Square devs said the game was being developed on PCs after the 360 reveal in Microsoft’s E3 press conference, seemingly to explain that porting the game to the console is easy meat.
Read the Square statement again. See?
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Blerk said:
Somewhere in the world, a single person is screaming ‘nooooooooooooooooooo!’. And possibly shaking their fist at the heavens.
patlike said:
This stank from the word go. Honestly, that GTA thing’s bollocks as well.
Shatner said:
Oh, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see both this and GTA *eventually* turn up on PCs.
Let’s be honest here folks, all console games are built and run on a PC framework (usually windows and linux). That’s how they get made. That’s how they get pieced together. As such the PC is *always* a possible platform for any game.
With justification of “Oh well, the game costs loads to make so bringing it to 360 is an obvious way to get more sales” being preached for the recent FF13 coup it seems rather hypocritical to discard the identical logic in respect of the PC platform.
Devil May Cry 4? Lost Planet?
Whilst for the moment we can accept that these early leaks are nothing but bullshit (and, strategically speaking, you don’t necessarily want to announce all your platforms at the same time) I don’t think the overall notion of games like GTA4 or FF13 hitting a PC is a total waste of time. In fact, I’d be amazed if GTA4 didn’t arrive on PC sooner or later given Rockstar’s track record.
jenovalink said:
That is what they say now but I bet PC will be release right after the console with better graphic than console due to DX10.