http://hatimaki.blog110.fc2.com/blog-entry-1280.html

Might be interesting for some <_<

Well, Gears going multi is more like if Heavenly Rain went multi.  The hardware maker is so involved with the game, at every step (development, funding, marketing, publishing, media, etc) that they might as well be 1st party games, despite who actually owns the IP.  Hell, Microsoft actually has staff who are dedicated just to Gears of War and Shadow Complex coordination.  It's a terrible comparison.

dude I cant read scribbles!!!

You can look at the screenshots though , it's a comparison, ther upper ones from 2008 and older ( the Exclusive built ) the others from 2009 ( multi ) , nice polishing job huh ;P

Edit : And NO , I don't blame the 360 , that's not the point that I'm making .

Heavenly Rain? I'll just take that as a means of using Heavenly Sword and Heavy Rain as examples.

Again, man, I'm completely aware, but like I said, I was just trying to throw out an example of a game that pushes hardware. Not really about what can go multiplat and what can't.

Gears is more a UE3 than a 360 showcase though... sure it looks great, but I'm not sure how much it's pushing the 360 specifically even.

Epic Games did say they're really pushing the Xbox 360 hardware with Gears of War 3, and it's paying off greatly from what I've seen, so...

My guess from his post history is he's trying to say that absolutely nothing changed when they decided to go multiplat.

But, I'm not going to push my view about what I think changed in the game.  It seems any criticism of the multiplat decision gets me branded as a crazy sony fanboy troll here - even though I never do troll stuff I don't like here.  I don't think it would have been magically a great game if it had been exclusive, but I do think some decisions had to be made in order to accomodate both console's limitations.  I'm mostly basing from what I've heard from people I know in the industry, but I would have no way of proving that on a message board - so I won't continue trying to push my views.  The companies won't outright say what they had to change, but one of the guys at SE did let it slip that half of the content was cut out.

Source?  Because the widely publicized post-mordem pretty squarely laid the lack of content at the feet of HD asset creation (ie: it took too long and cost too much).  If there really was a version of FFXIII with double the content, it'd have taken around 8 years to make and probably pushed the budget north of $200m.

What was cut was the postgame DLC scenarios and it's not clear if that was due to 360 or PS3 (360 has stricter regulations on pricepoints and scheduling, but PS3 has higher fees for hosting and a fragmented approval/QA process), but the rumor is now that stuff's being reworked into a new "FFXIII-2" game or something anyway.

Everyone is quick to say it's fake but the real news here is that we all know that both scenarios are entirely possible. I would not be surprised if they were confirmed at the FNC conference.