Hus on 07 September 2007
| Non Sequor said: Square-Enix is in a really tough position. They've already sunk a ton of money on making this game for the PS3, but they won't have a very large installed base to sell to if they release it as a PS3 exclusive. Of course, if it stays exclusive, FFXIII will sell a lot of PS3s, but Square-Enix won't sell as many copies of FFXIII as it would selling a game to an installed base that is already large. As a PS3 exclusive, FFXIII would have to have above a 50% attach rate to match the success of its predecessors. It would probably be pretty easy to release FFXIII on the 360, but that wouldn't help Square-Enix at all in Japan. To release it on the Wii they'd have to redo most of the game assets. So Square-Enix has four options: release FFXIII as a PS3 exclusive and accept weak sales, release FFXIII for PS3 and 360 and accept weak sales in Japan, release FFXIII for the PS3 and Wii and accept the added cost of porting the game to the Wii, or cut FFXIII's budget and shift the funds to other titles in the Fabula Nova Crystallis fleet and declare that there is no main FFXIII and that the PS3 FFXIII isn't any more important than the other Fabula Nova Crystallis titles. I don't think that Square-Enix is willing to accept weak sales in Japan for one of their flagship games. So I predict they'll either port it to the Wii or demote it from flagship status. |
Yahh yhah, Now reality is higest selling FF launched on a user base of 10 million.
I can bet real money right now FF13 will never be on the 360 or any White engine game.
Came on people, one legit good reason why in the hell would SE waste money on UT3 engine if White was Multi ???
