| xenophon13 said: Ok, so if you check out the link below, in an interview in OPM it is stated that the 360 development will not even begin until after the completion of the PS3 game. With as slow as SE is, that might take as much as a year before they port the game to the 360. So really all that panic and MS pr about stealing it away was for nothing. It is just like Bioshock coming to ps3, its cool and all but it doesn't have the impact if a day and date multiplatform title. PS3 FFXIII might as well be an exclusive because do you think that people who really want to play it are going to wait EVEN longer than they have already? And it other news, in seems like the game is close to being finished. http://finalfantasy-xiii.net/2008/09/22/ffxiii-interview-development-progress-update.html |
I think somebody should do a little more research before making threads.
It's been known for a while that 360 development won't start until FFXIII PS3 is completed (JAPANESE VERSION), and it's widely believed (I think confirmed, but I don't have a source) that 360 porting occurs when the english translation is being done with the PS3 version.
By doing this, S-E gives Japan exclusivity of FFXIII, whilst all other regions get both 360 and PS3 versions at the same time.
@Exclusivity talk: Seriously, fanboy nonsense, both sides. The only real world difference between the 360 and PS3 is blu-ray. Cell in real world application is not as powerful as paper stats suggest and neither is 360's advantage in the GPU department.
Furthermore, development costs ensure that MOST games (exclusive or otherwise) won't "take full advantage of X console" because very few companies are willing to bank on recuperating their losses in development by "working so hard" that's why FFXIII went multiplatform, that's why S-E are making crappy shovelware to finance the high end games and that's why the only exclusive content we'll see this generation HD console wise is from bought exclusivity.
There's a reason games kept looking better even at the very end of last gen, because they've never (and probably never did) taken full advantage of a consoles capabilities. I don't care how much crap cliffyb and Kojima spout about how hard they worked, in 2 years time both 360 and PS3 will have games that will look much better than Gears and MGS4 (By actually pushing the consoles further OR by refining the game engines so that they can have more for less).
The only thing MGS4 showed was how good blu-ray was for having more space, it showed NOTHING else to prove PS3 exclusives are indeed better than PS3 multiplatform.
So don't tell me X exclusive game takes full advantage of a consoles capabilities, because that's a load of crap, look at last year, best looking game was mulitplatform (CoD4).
