@Jo21

You can understand why my trust in SE not very strong these days

But thanx for the assurance

BTW : did u import the Demo??

the op is basing his opinion in a rumor...pathetic

You should rather wonder if the game will be gimped because of the weak cpu of the 360 rather than the memory of the ps3. Which is infact the same amount of ram of which half performs at twice the speed. It might not be shared memory, but it's better memory.

Your attempt at trash talking others(albeit in a disguised fashion) has resulted in an epic fail. You strike me as one of those futile n00bs that take offense whenever 'their' system is proven to be inferior in some way. I mean, why do you even care?  Does Microsoft give you money for defending them? probably not... they are just sitting there and laughing their hairy (A) off and pointing at you. You should just enjoyi the games you have on X360. Fable II is wonderful and so is Gears of War II. Now don't go saying that Mass Effect(amazing game) on X360 was better than on PC. The PC version of Mass Effect on X360 would probably make it melt.

As for the thread by the PS3fanboy you commented on, this thread is no reply. He merely pointed out that the PS3 enjoys more space on a single disc than X360. It's a fact, live with it. Now, if ever he was right and the game was downgraded to fit it on one disc, then so be it. Sucks for the console version. The PC version was about 14 GB on two dual layer discs. Don't blame Microsoft for it. It was the publisher that refused to pay the royalty fee to put it on multiple discs on the X360.

I actually laughed a bit, because of the noticeable lack of funny Rol threads.

Starcraft: WTF. You're really playing with fire here. Your very close to 45 days of vacation.

This is just total BS. Final Fantasy XIII will release in Japan earliest end 2009, which has zero to do with the 360 version, which won't be in Japan. IF FFXIII gets delayed again it's DQ9's fault for not releasing in the previous financial year.

I know it sounds weird, but localization for Final Fantasies (or JRPGs in general) takes time... 

You mean those poor X360 owners will have their version downgraded to constant 30 fps at 1080p like i had on pc?

Wasn't it stated that DVD was a challenge, if not even a problem, in addition to PS3 being a difficult platform (or something like that)? Both platforms had their problems.

However, that problem doesn't exist now. Even though the game's been developed on PC, they must have taken PS3 into account for a long time now. Besides, as it started as an exclusive, I'm sure they've focused on taking advantage of PS3's strengths. You get my point. We've already seen that PS3 isn't that difficult or bad when you do exclusive games, and tech-wise we can largely consider FFXIII as a PS3 exclusive (sort of, I hope you understand what I mean).

However, I'd be more worried about DVD this time. If it was a challenge with GTAIV, now it's a problem. Even if the game's linear, the world isn't. As far as I know, a world map has been confirmed; it basically means that you have access to most of the world at some point of the game. As the world must be largely put on each disc (well, could depend on design), it's even worse. Of course cutscenes and voice acting will probably take most "additional" space; they don't have to be on every disc. Also, voice acting and other sounds ought to be pretty easy to compress without too much loss in quality.

What I'd be worried about are CGI cutscenes. HD video needs much space, and thus I'm unsure if they can fit on DVD. Depends on their amount I suppose, but even a few can take much space. The 360 version might even have to have SD video instead of HD video which is what the PS3 version is probably getting.

We should also remember that the PS3 demo takes up some 5GB. I'd be willing to guess that at least 1GB, possibly even 2GB, are videos, but even then it would leave 3GB-4GB for the demo alone. If we compress that to 50% (can we really even do that?), it'll still be 1.5GB-2GB - more than most demos. If we apply the same to the full version, assuming the PS3 version needs a full dual-layered BD (50GB, that is), the 360 version would still be 25GB. AFAIK there was some copy protection or something on 360 DVDs which drops the available space to about 7GB (pretty hard to imagine why 8.5GB - 7 GB = 1.5 GB is needed for copy protection though, but that's what I've read a few times; last today). If 7GB is available, the game will take about four DVDs. If the whole 8.5GB would be available, it would still need three DVDs.

Yeah, they're probably going to need at least three DVDs even if they use excellent compression methods. And that's really if they use some efficient compression which also means loss in quality.

Then again, I probably lack the knowledge to make very accurate predictions about this so maybe I've gone a bit too far. Still, I'd say that should give a very good general idea about what's going to happen. I guess it'll be four discs max, probably three. Four is pretty bad for MS's image, but it's also getting pretty expensive (and remember, dual-layer DVDs are more expensive than usual single-layer DVDs you usually buy). Thus I'm guessing that three discs is going to be the most likely final number.

Big trolling here jajaja!

GTA for PS3 was downgrade to make X360 version.

DVD can't allow them to make the game they want so stop BS

 Hmm... so why both versions (X360, PS3) will be released at the same time?

You know... if MS bought FFXIII, obviously they sign a contract to prevent PS3 releases before.

If they hadn't done this FF fans on 360 would have buy PS3 and PS3 version...