FFXIII: Not till May 2008?

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windbane said:

albionus said:
I wonder if this is an example (along with MGS4) of the few remaining PS3 3rd party exclusives being delayed simply to wait for a bigger install base. Of course the install base won't grow significantly without excellent games like that and excellent games like that won't be released until the install base grows significantly. The classic feedback loop of the console spiral of death.

Did you miss the Sony Gamers Day coverage? The excellent games are coming.

It's the same situation for the Wii right now. There are 2 excellent Gamecube...oops...Wii games out right now. The big Wii games are coming later in the year. Obviously, no one seems to care because of the novel control scheme, but the criticisms of the PS3 not having games is a bit hypocritical if you're a Wii fan.

Well I agree with that to some extent. The Wii only has 2 real great games right now (unless you are a Wii sports fan, which, as a partying college student I actually am), but it's also promising 3 HUGE tripple A games this year, wheras the PS3 is testing new franchises. These new 3rd party games (Heavenly Sword, Lair, etc.) could be good or they could not be. No one can deny they look pretty, but they certainly aren't guaranteed great. Obviously NO game is guaranteed great but as long as Nintendo maintains the base formula of the 3 said games (as is standard in the industry anymore. See: GoW2 and Halo 3) it would be pretty ridiculous for them to be bad. I guess the PS3 game I personally am looking forward to the most this year is Warhawk.