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Depu Techiikue
19 May 2010, 05:40
During the four years since it's announcement, Square Enix have happily reaffirmed that Final Fantasy Versus XIII will remain a Playstation 3 exclusive. It seems that with the success of the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII in the west, they may have changed their mind.

When asked whether Versus could possibly make an appearance on Xbox during a Q&A session after an investors meeting, Yoichi Wada answered "We'll be looking into it internally until right before the formal announcement." Although nothing is set in stone, I'm sure fans well have very opposing opinions about this possibility.

With Final Fantasy Versus XIII hopefully making an appearance at E3 next month, it's likely that we won't have to wait too long to hear Square's final decision.

Source: FinalFantasy-XIII.Net



...booooooooooo
2006 called, they want their epic lie back! Or wait, I mean... What year again?

All jokes aside, this comes as no surprise to many, considering Square-Enix is all about breaking promises and making money. Considering the commercial success of Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360, which accounts for about 35% of FFXIII's total worldwide shipments, the boss man has expressed interest in making Nomura's project multiplatform.

Makes me wonder, if Nomura will be the next Squaresoft veteran to leave the company. The father of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, already left the company due to prior conflicts within the company. Nomura, a couple of years ago, announced his disinterest in not only making his Versus XIII project multi-platform, but the Xbox 360 console itself.

...This reminds me of when Nomura publically announced how he hated his boss (Yoichi Wada). We've all already seen how a Final Fantasy game without Sakaguchi writing and directing "compares" to prior games... picture a Final Fantasy game where Nomura is not the character designer. It'd be repeteated FF games with FF12's characters!

The nightmare begins.... o.o

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Sony fanboy or anything. I have an Xbox 360 and choose some games for Xbox over the PS3 counterpart. I am, however, a fanboy of what Nomura has already promised to be in the game, and what making it multi-platform would deplete from that promised content. It's like taking FF7 Advent Children complete and making the DVD version out of it instead.

... >.>;

Zidane007nl
19 May 2010, 14:25
I've been waiting for this game since it has been announced and then you hear nothing for a really long time. And now suddenly they think of developing it for the 360 too?! That's just crazy. They said right from the announce that this will be a PS3 exclusive! :mad:

I'm Yoichi Wada and I'm gonna break all promises made in the past and all I want is to earn MONEY MONEY MONEY! :upset:

Trance Kuja
20 May 2010, 13:35
Bah!

BKGeno4Ever
21 May 2010, 03:24
I heard FFXIII was not a true FF game.

Fox
21 May 2010, 22:51
I heard FFXIII was not a true FF game.

And there's no true scotsman either.

I don't care if Versus goes to the 360 as well, as long as it doesn't affect the quality of the PS3 version. I would imagine it is already a significant way into development at this stage, so whilst they may port it across I doubt Versus would have planned features removed or anything in order to do it.

picture a Final Fantasy game where Nomura is not the character designer. It'd be repeteated FF games with FF12's characters!

It might be an improvement. Nomura is half of what is wrong with Square Enix at the moment. He epitomises the 'style over substance' mentality. He has some moments of genius when he's put in charge (and I am anticipating Versus to be one of these), but he isn't half capable of ruining a good idea as well.

Zidane007nl
23 May 2010, 16:18
I heard FFXIII was not a true FF game.
And what does that have to do with this? :confused: