Worldwide it will be more on PS3, because i think Japanese gamers wont buy it on the 360, especially how its also leading on the PS3. but in the west it will be an interesting comparasion. yeah me too, i'm not too interested in GT5, Halo (or any other shooter) or LBP2. so same goes for me really. but yeah should turn into a bit of a cult classic imo, like Demon's Souls.

lol, Versus i dont think will be out til next year. i think if its still a PS3 exclusive then we might get a WW similtaneous release like they wanted with FF13. so i would expect mid - late 2011. imo, i have serious doubts over the game man. FF13 was an okay game, but i along with many FF fans were heavily dissappointed with the direction the series has taken. if Nomura continues in that direction with this, i honestly have no idea if i'll still support the series as i have in the past. its not the same as when Sakaguchi was there.

saying that, i'm still planning to get Dragon Quest later this year, that is supposed to be extremely good!!

lol, appologies, didnt think anyone else was intertesed in this thread, will do.

Maybe It'll sell more on 360 in Americas... but others plus japan will be the opposite :P

Yeah, I expect Versus to be released around 3 months after XIV (PS3). I really hope it stays exclusive and we get a Worldwide simultaneos release. You shouldn't have doubts about Versus XIII :P It's supposed to have better graphics than Final Fantasy XIII, have a world-map like the old FF titles, an airship... and a car used for transport around the world-map, cities like shinjuku or however that's spelled, a world-map as open as the 2D FF's world-map (you can go everywhere, except for the mountains :P), a gameplay simillar to KH's gameplay, Music composed by Yoko Shimomura (Parasite Eve, Front Mission, Kingdom Hearts, etc)... etc :P. Doesn't all that sound good to you? :P because it sound pretty good to me :D

By the way... is Mistwalker owner by Microsoft now? because if that's the case then that sucks in my opinion xD

Oh, and this time... when reviews and a lot of info on Versus XIII starts to spread all over the internet, I'll try not to read to much... specially people's impressions on the game becuase I don't want to create a "view" on the game before playing it and judge it from that "view" :P. I want to create my own view this time... and be less spoiled about the story (I already knew a lot of locations in FFXIII, all characters and their names, all summons and many bosses before even playing the game).

If it releases first in Japan, then I'll very tempted to watch every video I find on YouTube >_<

sweet, I've really been looking forward to this. Looks like Mikami has come back to show people how to get really creative with shooters.

Yeah i know what you mean about that actully, we knew far too much about FF13 years before it was released, too much about the story and the characters. and i was like that actully, i saw a vid of FF13 when it was released in Japan, so i could check out the battle system, and i spoiled a small part of the story for myself. so now, never again. you just have to try and look forward to something else that will tide you over. i dont have that problem at the moment, because of my lack of faith in SE.

but yeah Mistwalker is Sakaguchi's company, and Microsoft funded it under the agreement he would make 2 exclusive titles for the 360. now thats done it seems like he has nothing more to do with them. i suppose they were trying to trigger a surge of RPG interest in the console, and he couldnt do it, so they decided to pay $75mil for FF13. so i dont think he cares or they care at the moment. but Last Story does look very good man, very good.

dont get me wrong all that stuff you said about versus sounds good and will probabily lead to great gameplay, no doubt. Nomura nails it with Kingdom Hearts and apparently TWEWY is also a stunning game. but my problem with FF13 was the story and the way the story was told.i'm concerned that it will end up like FF13 where we have far too many cutscenes that beat around the bush, with stuff like 'Serah says so'. and we'll never get to the meat of the Fabula Nova Crystalisis, they'll leave us hanging.

sorry to put a downer on it, but i dont like the direction the series is going with longer cutscenes that leave you with more cutscenes, and none of the questions unanswered. we waited 5 years for FF13, and all we got was 6 hours of 'Serah says so'. imo cutscenes arnt the only way to tell a story, if you've played Valkyria Chronicles then you should know what i mean. but Nomura is not Kitase, so hopefully he knows what hes doing with this!!

Aah, so The Last Story is made by Mistwalker? That's good because that means they don't only make Xbox 360 games... so maybe some day we will have a Sakaguchi game released on the PS3 :D

I think you wanted to see more about the Mythology in Final Fantasy XIII, right? Well... I think Versus XIII will show a lot more about that than XIII did... I mean, one of the trailers showed Noctis and Stella talking near a painting that's supposed to be the goddes Etro which makes me think that the mythology will play a bigger role in the cutscenes this time. I think Final Fantasy XIII cutscenes were on par with older FF games lengthwise... they didn't seem longer... in fact I think they were a bit shorter than older FFs cutscenes :P

BTW, since Nomura didn't direct XIII I think that will be reflected in Versus XIII's story being told in a different way than XIII... besides this one will have a "darker" story... which sounds promising :P.

Oh, and I haven't played Valkyria Chronicles yet but I probably will someday :P

Personally, I don't care about cutscenes being long... in fact, I like that :P As long as the story is interesting ^_^

I think we have derailed this thread way too much... it's about Vanquish demo and we are talking about FFXIII and Versus XIII xD

Yeah well we'll discuss this in more depth some other time then, but we did say pretty much all we could say about Vanquish tbh, lol. it will be a great game.

yeah i did want more on the mythology, and hopefully Nomura rectifies that. i'm more interested in darker characters and story definitly. we'll see how it turns out my friend. oh yeah i wouldnt worry too much about Valkyria Chronicles, the battle system gets annoying, a lot of trial and error, but i really like the way the story is told.

oh and yes hopefully Sakaguchi does something for PS3, maybe even port the Last Story, i know its not likely but you never know, SE might even publish it for him.

Yeah, only time will tell :P

I hope so about The Last Story... but a new, exclusive title created from the ground up for the PS3 would be even better than that =P

Thanks for telling us. I'll put my japanese account to good use when the time comes. ;)

No problem :D

BTW, I've just found this article:

http://www.vg247.com/2010/08/21/vanquish-demo-set-for-september-2-on-psn-and-xbl/

Vanquish producer Atsushi Inaba has said Platinum Games plans to release a demo for the game on Xbox Live and PSN September 2.

Speaking with Gamespot Japan during gamescom, Inaba said the demo will be titled Velocity Attack, and it contains a prologue sequence as well as a boss fight with Argos.

Players will be able to try it out in both casual and normal difficulty modes, as well as the auto aim feature.

Inaba also said the Vanquish demo shown at TGS next month will be different from the downloadable demo, as it will show additional playable areas and a stage with an appearance by a surprising character (Bayonetta maybe? – SN).

Vanquish is out on October 19 in the US and October 22 in the UK for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Who could this "surprising character" be? :O

I hope this demo is released the same day worldwide :P I don't want to create a japanese account, lol xD