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Originally Posted by mangapunkrocker

i read it at a website that said that, that they will be releasing it in x-box 360 format, i'll try and find it, maybe i'm wrong, but a lot of people told me this, maybe i'm mistaken if i am i apologize in advance dudes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIII

XIII is going MULTIPLATFORM. There was a hugeeee nerddrama about it when it was first announced so you probably heard wrong.

Originally Posted by Salvanas

They didn't sell ALL of it.

Square only "sold" half of it, thus FFXIII coming out on the Xbox 360. However, Square knows the compatibilities of the PS3 and the 360 cannot keep up to the same graphics as the PS3. Thus Square is keeping half on Xbox 360 and the other half on Sony. In sony, they can out as much effort into the game and the graphics as they can, whereas, the Final Fantasy fans on Xbox 360 get a chance at playing the new Final Fantasy game aswell.

Profit on both sides.

No.

The game is being made on a PC dev kit then made for both PS3 and 360. This was done so Square can make more money off of the game as a whole. It has nothing to do with Microsoft "buying" final fantasy, or the capabiities of either system. It's Square maximizing their profits.

VS XIII is remaining PS3 exclusive (or so it's being said by Square). There's a few theories as to why this was done. Some say that MS bought multiplat rights to XIII, others say that Tetsuya Nomura (the director of FFVSXIII, FFXIII has a different director) will not allow VSXIII to go multi and holds too much weight in Square to simply be overthrown. Exactly why hasn't been said though, just that VSXIII will remain PS3 exclusive.