Announced at sony e3 2006, final fantasy XIII (along its darker alternative final fantasy versus XIII) was announced as an exclusive for the playstation 3 platform. Assumed to be an AAA title, the game was the most aniticipated final fantasy game.

In 2008, microsoft gave a suprising announcement that final fantasy XIII will make its appearance on the xbox 360 platform. While disappointment of the announcement was apparent, xbox 360 users rejoice that an AAA final fantasy will come to their platform.

December 2009, final fantasy XIII was released. Critical reception was very positive and the game was awared a 39/40. Perceived as an AAA final fantasy in its home country, gamers expect a similar response in the west.

March 2010, final fantasy XIII was released worldwide. Critical reception was not so good (in final fantasy standard) and the game was heavily critised for its extreme linearty and lack of FF aspects that fans grew to love. The game received mainly 8s, with an aggregated score of 80/100. The general consensus was that the game was the least impressive of the series.

After all that I've talked about in this thread, do people care anymore that final fantasy XIII is on two platforms instead of one? Imagine you were at sony's e3 when final fantasy XIII was first announced. If you had the ability to travel to the future and found out that the game isn't as good as it was expected, would you not care anymore for the game multiplatform or not?

People on the internet tend to make a bid deal out of nothing. Remember how pissed people got when they found out that Leona Lewis' song "My Hands" was going to be in FF13?

Leona lewis' song wasn't as good at the original. Thats kind of justified and square should've translate original instead of replacing it with another.

I stppd listening to FF fans when every1 & their mum hated on FF8 ten years ago as if it murderd sum1 in their family.

The multiplat wsnt big as the game flopped on xbox 360 nyway.

at the end of the day this game made me luv FF again after the horrible FF12

Ofcourse.. now we have a reason to blame the 360 for given us a bad game.. what? we all know that it's because it because of the 360 we didn't get the second coming of Final fantasy 7... here is my proof!

Nikkom, what difference does it make it was an exclusive? Assuming the games concept was finalised long before its multiplatform decision, the game would've be a disappintment anyway.

Graphics wise, maybe. But I doubt hardware has anything to do with gameplay.

That song was barely audible for a couple of minutes during the ending of the game.  Was that a gamebreaker?

This post perplexes and confuses me, and I DON'T LIKE IT!

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Well it didn't improve the unimpressive ending atleast.