| jesus kung fu magic said: Am I reading this wrong or did he just say the exact same thing, just worded differently? |
thats whats I was thinking too.
however one thing does semi-land in PS3's favour, and that could be the timing in FFvXIII's development cycle.
If they can't fit FFvXIII onto one 360 disk, the'd have to make story and possibly even world changes that they otherwise might not have had to do if the game was on one disk.
bear with me; I'm not trolling here but take this a a (admittedly rather poor) example.
say FFvXIII is in final stages of development. they've got lot much left to do story wise, they're just making side-quests and mini games before testing and final polish.
Then they find out that now the game will be ported to 360.
now they have a choice. the game takes about 20GB on PS3 - do they chop assets, compress things like textures and FMV to get it to one 7GB DVD or do they split the game into 3 disks and save as much of the assets intact as possible?
If it's on multiple disks, where can they split the game in a way that makes sense from a story flow and events perspective? how do they split FMV so that one disk is not overwhelmed with it? i.e. what changes will need to be made to the flow of the game, and how will those changes impact on the project in the PS3 version?
Without adding even more of a delay to the project from that persective, there is also the matter of the coding for the second platform (crystaltools helps here though as does FFXIII experience)
If the cycle is near completion and SE worried about needing quick money (cashflow), there is little chance the 360 will get an immediate port, but could get a delayed one quite easily
with that in mind there are several factors which make me think that the port to 360 is going to happen
1 extra sales
2 KH BBS is getting released this year - so the strain on the collective pocket of SE shouldn't be unbearable
3 no firm release date for FFvXIII set
4 very little news regarding what stage of development FFvXIII is in
I guess we'll find out soon enough!
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