nah, i do remeber a developer interview saying some places cannot be re-visited because of the multiple DVD issue. Hell, certainly developer can say whatever they want. we may never know the true story. but the engine went multi-platform after seeing the disappointing ps3 initial sales. any engine designer will know a multi-platform engine is way more difficult than an single-platform engine.  they can use that resouce to design actual towns. heck, i wish FFv13 can back to the FF formula again. world map, airship and open-world exploration. those are what made FF great!

there were towns not traditional ones, saying there were not towns is incorrect. Nauhtilus, Palum Polum,  Bodhum and Oerba were all towns. It didn't have shops in the towns.

and I disagree about the world map, airship and open world exploration making final fantasy great. Oblivion, Fallout blows Final Fantasy out of the water in that department imo, but that's a different topic.

And FFXIII is probably my 5th favorite so it's not like I necessarily thought other aspects in XIII were superior to other FF's

It's just so annoying!

We've waited long enough, with promises of an exclusive. Don't delay it for us just so a userbase who wont buy it even half as much anyway can also have it.

Put it on the 360? Yeah. Sure. But don't delay the PS3 version. Sick of SE being arseholes this generation...

Developers do that all the time with Job adds it has already been discussed on theses forums don't stat this as fact of mutiplatforn without any REAL truth to those clams. and of cores it is Wada san and the SE bord that make those desions about platform and the end of the day but until he announces any thing in this regard it is just pointless internet rumors. 

PS I would like there to be more Exclusives this Gen to differentiate the Consoles more but at the end of the day it doesn't if it dose go Mutiplatform because like FFXIII I will buy it for PS3. because even if I get a  XBOX 360 before FFVERUSXIII is out I know like FFXIII PS3 Version the PS3 will be the superior Version as well.    

I agree that it has nothing to do with the 360, i think that they have over 5 years development, a brand new game engine and 300 memebers of staff, its down to poor choices at the managment level that they couldnt implement more features imo. i remember theres been a recent buzz on the internet about this recently, because we've heard that the production team had a lot of unused assets, a lot of time was wasted because of an incohesive vision. the only thing is that the game might have been out faster had they not taken time to port over to the 360.

"there is nothing that suggest PS3 version wouldn't have sold more so you should too keep believing that it wouldn't have"

It works both ways, there's no evidence either way. There's more consoles available one way which means more people available for you to sell it to. And there's this idea that exlusives sell better the because of hype or some weird cosmic phenomon..

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Any reason for Versus going mulitplat would be for the West, not Japan. The same way it was for FF XIII. And FF XIII did well on the 360.

Who cares... its not like the deciding factor in the console wars....

If more can play Versus, then good for them. If it goes multiplat I could see VS doing 1-1.5 million on the 360 alone so why not port it?

Nah. The success of FFXIII in the West is good enough to warrant a VsXIII port on the 360. There is absolutely no logical reason to why SE wouldn't port it. There is an RPG fanbase on the 360 and they would be foolish to ignore it.

are you seious?!? what does it matter if it sells 100k in Japan or 500k in Japan? there multiplat decision will NOT be based off FFXIII 360 sales. If Vs went multiplat then 95% of it's potential "360" sales would be from outside Japan so it's irrelevant.

It's probably going multiplat but not due to japan, it's because of ww sales.

Uhhh, no? The 360 port was announced when the Japanese PS3 version was almost done, and the port didn't even start until after the Japanese release. The only thing that was "lost" was this one park which they later considered to add as DLC but decided to drop it (even that wasn't dropped because of the 360 port). The multiple DVDs have nothing to do with content because they can just throw in another DVD if needed. It's fanboy delusional talk when they say the 360 was the reason for "no towns". SE spent over half of the development cycle just making the game engine, they had to sacrifice something unless people were willing to wait another 1-2 years.

the multiple dvd's have alot to do with linearity but this has nothing to do with the thread

Actually, they have nothing to do with it.  The flawed content development pipeline is what ultimately led to FFXIII being a straight line.