Console Equality

[Reasonable]

Badassbab said:

Where did you get this whole console equality business from? Square Enix have stated the PS3 version of FFXIII will not be compressed as it doesn't need to be. And if they really deleted some scenes because they didn't want to have to put it on a 4th 360 DVD then either that's a load of unconfirmed rumours or those scenes wern't important enough to keep. I mean LO on 360 came on 4 discs, it's not exactly a problem and one can install all them onto the hard drive and play it off one disc. I'm sure FFXIII will be optimised for 360 NXE install.

Also Tekken 6 wasn't dumbed down on PS3, it's videos were of higher uncompressed quality. In fact the 360 version had a higher res option unavailable to the PS3 so no equality there.

If you're boycotting because of hear say rather than actual hard facts than tough luck mate, you're gonna miss out on one hell of an experiance.

So what other games have you heard have been dumbed down on the PS3 because it has to keep parity to the 360? Did you know Infinity Ward's PS3 team was twice as big as the 360 one because they wanted to keep both versions of COD looking the same? (360 version still looked and ran better- this is a fact). And I say good on them.

I agree it seems unlikey SE had to cut material for 360.  I'm sure MS would allow them 5 DVDs if that's what it took to get FF on the 360, and I'm also sure MS would waive any normal charges for additional DVDs (if such charges exist) if that's what it took to get FF on the 360 as well.

If SE cut stuff (which I assume they did because they say the have) then I'm more inclined to belive it was cut either because they felt the game was better without it, they wanted to keep it and refine it for later DLC (bastards if that's the case!) or to use it for some for of special edition at a latter stage for a 'double dip' (also bastards if that's the case!).

The only way I see supporting the 360 changing the game is something similar to what Id has shared about Rage, that the design of the gameworld was changed a bit to accomodate easier splitting across disks and reduce disk changes.  Maybe I'm being too reasonable (pardon the pun)- but I don't believe that would massively affect gameplay if that was the impact of going multiplatform (which is just a guess of mine based on Rage, nothing concrete you understand).