Final Fantasy 13 being developed with cross-platform engine

[Gelmer]

mitsuhide said:

Gelmer said:
If FFXII only sold 5 million on a console with a 120+ million instalation base how do you figure FFXIII is going to sell 5 million on a 10-20 million instalation base?

Because FFXII sucked compared to other FF's and FFXIII is meant to be the second coming of FFVII i.e doing for the PS3 what FFVII did for the PS1.

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Also we dont actually know what the other platform is,we assume its X360 but what if its PC or PS2(the original TheWhiteEngine console) it could even be the Wii although i doubt this unless they are taking ful advantage of MotionControl in Sixaxis and Wiimote(Sixaxis control wouldnt be the same as Wiimote control but the engine would be similar or the same).

 Square hasn't even been able to pull anything even remotely close to FF7 in the last ten years so I really don't hold out much hope for a game that honestly just sounds like a jumbled mess of mismatched genres and RPG types. And seeing how they've handled their ideal of FF7 through its spin-offs I have little hope for any good comming from FFXIII being the second comming of FF7. Even then, if by a second FF7, you mean the game has a train and some techno/steam punk elements in it, then yeah, I guess you could call it a superficial attempt at reconstructing the success of a game they've all but forgotten how to achieve. Then again, ever since FFIX, every FF main series game according to Square has reportedly been the one to outdo all the others. The fact the main female character is once again a Yuna clone shows this treading down the same path as its glamorific PS2 predicessors.

But that's just my skeptical opinion, I suppose you could assume all the early adopters bought it for either MGS4 or FFXIII so you could assume at least 2-3 million in sales maybe. But not 5.