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Originally Posted by zoneoni

AWW, that's gonna be the biggest suck ever if they make Final Fantasy for the PS3 and the XBOX 360. Not because I hate the XBOX 360 TO THE BONE. Not because I bought the PS3 with the sole intention of playing Final Fantasy. And most definetly Not because I HATE XBOX 360 TO THE BONE!!!!R

LOL but because other games that have come out for the XBOX 360 and the PS3 have had some sort of compromise of sorts. I'll give you an example.


Let's take a game that is solely for the Xbox, like say Halo. The graphix for HALO 3 were kick ass. Pretty dam good. Even though I hate XBOX360.

Now lets take a game that was soley for the PS3, MSG4, awesome so awesome...kick ass grahpix etc. Although that seems to be changing and Korean developers seem to want to expand into the XBOX market, since there are more Xboxers then PS3ers. It's understandable, and the reason why they didn't do this in the begininig was probably so that it didn't suffer a similar ending like GTA 4, my opinon

Now GTA4. here's the problem with GTA4, because developers were lazy and didn't try to make the most of the potentials behind the XBOX and PS3, they decided to settle for a mediocore level of design in graphix in order to make sure that one version was not better then the other. It was rumored for a while that Microsoft paid rockstar for this move, I donno, who knows but the truth is that if you compare any XBOX only or any PS3 only game with GTA4, the graphix just don't compete.


Now, if they do this to FF, that is gonna reek of suck. What microsoft and sony need to do is merge to make the X-PS4. Total pwnage the goods of both worlds.

The game is being developed on PC, and being made for PS3. After PS3 is finished development for the 360 version starts.

Originally Posted by MissMisa

I don't get your logic. Why in the world would Microsoft pay to make a game on their console suck? That would just NOT happen.

There is NO WAY they are going to MAKE Final Fantasy suck. They are more likely want it to be the most awesome Final Fantasy ever in order so that they can gloat and say 'look, it turned out great anyway so quit your whining that it's multi-format.'

There is no way in a billion years that any good business would pay to make their product shit. No way.

You must have missed something huge here. Microsoft did not pay anything to Square. Do you want to know how I know this? There isn't going to be a Japanese version of the game.

I'm sure you know how piss poor the sales for 360 are in Japan, why would Microsoft pay to have a game on their system but not allow the game's largest audience the ability to touch it? The audience they need the game for. I'll tell you why. Square is expanding to the west, and 360 has the install bases in EU/NA.

What he means with a poorer quality game overall is partially correct. With the 360 and PS3 in particular the consoles have very very different architectures, and must be designed in very different ways. In order to make multi-platform game one of two things have to happen:

1. You need to have development for the game on both consoles at the same time, making it feasable to run on both consoles. This is the unpreffered method for developers because it costs more with little results over all, because the game is being made for two consoles anyway and not one's specific design.
2. Making a game only one one console and porting it to another. This is the prefered method and often leaves one of the versions lacking unless real attention is put into it.

What Square is doing is finishing FFXIII for PS3, and designing it for PS3. They are then going to port the game for 360. The most likely drawback to this is that the 360 version is going to have several discs. Since no one has any idea what the game play looks like, or how it plays that's the only thing people can safely assume.