Because for the longest time, it's been one of the only gaming related reasons and talking points to justify actually owning a PS3, and now there is no reason that I know of.

^wow thats too far away

Crazzyman is probably on suicide watch right now, that is if he didn't have a heart attack, stroke, and/or an aneurism when he found out.

lol, where is the guy. I miss some others too....

 Mate your living in total dream land. I know your a PS3 fanboy and your running damage control and that is fair play to you. But don't come on here saying this announcement was boring etc.. as it makes you look thick. This announcement is huge. Mega huge. A once strict loyal defender of the PS IP has just pretty much said "you know what Sony, f@~K you, we want out".

That means most likely no more exclsuivity to Sony from Square Enix. They pretty much just handed Sony's Ass on a plate to MS by having 2 excluives and 1 timed exclusive all to the 360. On top of that giving the 360 Sony's LAST A+ title. There is nothing now. And don't come out with the crap people come out with saying well we got God Of War, please... GOW2 sold 2m copies in total with a near 120m unit base....Halo 3 sold like 9m in under a year. There is fanboyism then there is stupidity. In terms of sales there is nothing Sony have now that can match FFXIII potential sales, and those sales have just been halved and then some. But the most important thing is what is to say FFXIV is not 360 exclusive? It doesn't looklike SE like Sony much does it?

So on top of that who is left to make all the RPG's for the PS3? By the looks of things the 360 has the RPG and JRPG genre all to itself. Games wise the PS3 is starting to look very very thin. Look at that Gears 2 play demo at E3. Then compare it to the Killzone 2 gameplay footage. KZ2 looks so boring and repetative compared to that. In the space of 5mins in Gears 2 you saw about 10 different monsters and about 15 different looking exteriours/interiours. KZ2 looks the same in that 10min footage. So i bet you will be one of those people who will come on here tommorow saying how great KZ2 looked in the Sony conference when it looked as generic as generic gets. Not a big deal? jeez...

This game is going to sell a shitload now. Say to Sony we have to go multi, they moan, SQEnix say keep Japan. Sony are releived because that were FF13 will make hardware explode. SQEnix take MS mega cash and an extra 4 million sales.
ALL 3rd party should be exclusive. Whats next Gears Tekken?

 yeah i wonder where

Far too much gloating going on in this thread...

Some posters seem far more interested in riling up Sony fans rather then thinking of the repercussions of this announcement.

SE will obviously be able to make more money off a multi-platform release.

It does beg the question though: if SE had previously had a contract with Sony, how much money did Microsoft throw at SE to change the exclusivity state of this title? And will the money spent be recuperated?

If not, (and if Microsoft know it's not), then it's yet another sign that Microsoft are in the game business purely to disrupt Sony's dominance, and they are willing to pump obscene amounts of money out to achieve it.

This also shows the continuing trend of Japanese developers looking to the west to cover development costs for high profile games, and looking to the 360 which has a strong presence in NA as a source to do so.

In my opinion Sony saw this current state of the industry and the potential loss of future third party exclusives coming a long time ago. Hence the increasing of first party holdings etc.

So many are now eating crow by the boatload!