Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | 09:27 GMT

Japanese Xbox.com URL suggests Final Fantasy IV 360 [Update]

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This 1UP piece brings word that if click on this link – http://www.xbox.com/ja-JP/games/f/finalfantasy4/details.page/ – you’ll be taken a legitimate Japanese Xbox.com page – albeit an empty one.

However, if you’re thinking it could be some randomly generated placeholder, then feel free to replace the words “final fantasy IV” with whatever you like and see what happens.

After Square Enix unveiled two new XBLA title, the firm did promise “to bring its popular games as well as original titles to the download service in the future.”

Is this one of them?

We’ll of course check with Square Enix right away.

Update: If you type the word, ‘SuperMario’ instead of Final Fantasy IV, you get the same message but only if you add the ‘/details.page/’ suffix. Still, this is looking increasingly uncertain.

Super Mario XBLA? We seriously doubt it.

Thanks, Syrok.

By Mike Bowden

12 comment-trail-alt Posted in: Arcade, Hot, Rumour, Square Enix, Xbox 360
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#1

Syrok
28/01/09, 9:14 am

Super Mario 360 confirmed:

http://www.xbox.com/ja-JP/games/f/SuperMario/details.page/

#2

Mike
28/01/09, 9:15 am

haha!

I’ll update

#3

Blerk
28/01/09, 9:22 am

That’s not quite what he said, Syrok. You’re supposed to miss the /details.page bit off the end of the URL when you enter it. If you do that for FinalFantasy4 then the server automatically adds the /details.page for you – any other random game name (like SuperMario, for instance) doesn’t do that.

I’ll agree it’s tenuous at best, but the behaviour is actually different between the two.

#4

Mike
28/01/09, 9:25 am

Same difference really though, surely.

#5

Blerk
28/01/09, 9:27 am

Not really – the server’s recognising something about certain URLs and redirecting them. It’s still redirecting them to the same blank page, but there is a difference in behaviour which suggests that it knows something about ‘finalfantasy4′ that it doesn’t know about ‘fuckedupthebum8′.

‘finalfantasy5′ doesn’t do the same thing, but ‘finalfantasyxiii’ does, for instance.

#6

Tonka
28/01/09, 9:28 am

Topical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKeIm_gYmMk&fmt=22

#8

Blerk
28/01/09, 9:44 am

Everyone’s still missing the point, I see. :-D

#9

Syrok
28/01/09, 10:07 am

Meh, who cares it’s just a game about a bunch of emo teenagers in conflict with their subconscious. :)

#10

elronathon
28/01/09, 10:10 am

Syrok: hahahaha, thats excellent.

#11

Gekidami
28/01/09, 10:12 am

Its confirmed;
http://www.xbox.com/ja-JP/games/f/OMG_MGS4_ON_360/details.page/

#12

Michael O'Connor
28/01/09, 11:45 am

“Meh, who cares it’s just a game about a bunch of emo teenagers in conflict with their subconscious. :) ”

…Actually, no it isn’t.

While I get the joke, and its the one aspect of Final Fantasy I tend to despite, FFIV: The After strays well away from the angst ridden hero stereotype.

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