[Kotaku] There Is Enough Discarded Final Fantasy XIII To Make Another Game

[Reasonable]

Porcupine_I said:

d21lewis said:
Lost Odyssey was about 4 or 5 discs. Why wouldn't FF13 do the same if it were too much data to fit into 3 discs?

Because apparently Microsoft charges royalties by the amount of Discs a game uses.

MS would clearly waive such charges here.  Unless they were mad SE would have negotiated whatever they wanted out of MS to support the 360 in the West.  Sure, SE probably looked at US 360 numbers and thought 'why not' but clearly they were in the better barganing position vs MS so I doubt MS would charge them a small surcharge that would cause them to change their game.

LO was 4 disks I believe and I'm sure FF could be too without any additional charge.