Hawk said:
MikeB said:
Regarding 2008 holiday sales, I anticipated no economic problems like yen vs dollar exchanges, so I expected a worldwide PS3 price cut by October. I anticipated Final Fantasy to be ready in 2008. I also didn't expect the 360 to sell as low as 119 Euros including 19% taxes including free games, etc.
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MikeB said:
I will wait for Sony's report on hardware sales to retailers before determining the actual damage done by having no real PS3 entry price cut last year. But even if that did happen as anticipated IMO it would not have been enough to cover original expectations, for this games like Killzone 2 and Final Fantasy XIII would have been needed as well.
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Do you really expect Final Fantasy XIII to be much assistance to the PS3 in hardware sales? It is multiplatform now. I do think FFXIII may get higher sales on PS3 because many FF fans may have already bought a PS3 before it was announced to go multiplat. But for current console sales on, I doubt there is that much higher of a demand to get FFXIII on PS3 than the 360 to spike PS3 hardware sales over 360 sales.
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Yes, I have always (also before the multi-platform announcement) said Japan needs Final Fantasy on the PS3. It's still exclusive there. And if what the Square Enix said is true, then the PS3 version will likely be better than the 360 port.
