A strong possibility.  I'm still hoping for a PS3 release.

So why did they admit that they cut so much content from the ps3 version that the cut content could be its own game? And why did they lie then?

Riddle me that, Link :)

Edit: oh I didn't see forever clouds post ..nevermind

In all this quibbling something important has been lost. Some of you are blaming Square for what transpired when that blame should go to Sony. The exclusivity wasn't just Sony's to lose. Sony did a fantastic job of fucking Square over, and to be frank it takes some real gall to insinuate that Square should have taken it up the ass to satisfy some kind of console fetish all your own. I am sorry but the revisionism taking place in this thread is atrocious.

Square showed real tenacity when it came to maintaining the exclusivity that Sony enjoyed. Square did repeatedly warn Sony about the price of their console prior to launch, and they warned Sony repeatedly after the launch. They even went so far as to threaten Sony not just with the withdrawal of exclusivity, but with the withdrawal of their support in general. They literally fought tooth and nail to keep Final Fantasy as a exclusive franchise. What did you expect them to do exactly. Fall on their sword so that Sony could be successful.

Sony placed its own technological ambitions ahead of their loyal third party developers, and in doing so they not only abused their trust. They were actively causing them financial harm. Sony's overpriced Trojan horse not only stunted the platforms install base, but it actually split the user base. While at the same time escalating the costs of development. Sony didn't just take developers like Square for granted. They were flagrantly exploiting their very loyalty. All so Sony could profit from winning other product wars.

Sony literally screwed the pooch. Square was well within its rights to rescind the exclusivity, and frankly it is still within its rights to do so. To be brutal about it all. They would have been justified if they had decided to throw their full support behind Microsoft or even Nintendo. In a twist of irony you should probably be thanking Square for not abandoning you. Even though you act like they did.

I think there has been more then enough time to lament the passing of this particular era. That said if your still so bitter then do as I suggested. Place the blame on the guys who fucked up what you thought was a good thing. Oh by the way it wasn't just Square that gave Sony the stink eye. There are a slew of developers that did the exact same thing. So the question you have to be asking yourself is this. Which is more likely all of these third parties are run by total player hating dicks, or Sony did something to them that it ought not have done.

What you just described says very little in who is to be "blamed" per-say. Sony's reasoning for using blu-ray, the cell are all valid as a company that has to make themselves stand out and make a profit. What should they have done? Continued using DVD? Use an off the shelf CPU? That would have left them with no advantage against MS's firm position in the tech world as well as their ability to get top notch parts for dirt cheap(seeing as US based companies make most of them....in foreign countries but still). They had to seperate themselves, and there is no crime in doing so.  I am pretty sure many-a- developer tried to talk Nintendo out of doing motion control but sticking to your guns is how you make progress. Yea, the system didn't sell as much as they hoped, especially after the fact they were market leader 2gens in a row but lets not pretend the PS3 sold horribly bad by any standard. The system sold quite well. It only appears bad when you see the consoles in their tentative "positions" in the console war. Plus BluRay is the format of choice now, inclings of next Xbox will also have BluRay. In short....it paid off.

I thought with your stance you would bring up the disagreement Square had with Sony after they released the PS2 slim. Square apparently got pissed at them for for making the HDD a moot point(which was required for FFXI on PS2). Yet it seems a bit crazy to me for SE to get mad at Sony for doing so, when they litterally had that attachment JUST so SE could do FFXI on the system. It was literally the only game that ever used it, and they wanted Sony to base their entire designs around it. It simply comes down to Wada is an incompatent narcisist. Here is why they shouldn't be at odds like they are...

1. Sony saved Square-Enix from the brink of bankruptcy after the Spirits Within fiasco.
2. There games have done better on Sony consoles than any other system in the past and present.
3. Square helped Sony gain the cemented foothold they needed in the PS1 era to become defacto Market Leader.
4. Sony owns a portion of SE stock.
5. Majority of their fanbase is attached to the Playstation Brand.

No but I mean like "was" in development vs released.  Game technically "was" in development, but a finished product was released.  Same with the Vita Monster Hunter Portable 3, I saw it at the china mall last week (Or two weeks ago).  Or are they talking about a "Western" release?

I agree that they should probably just push it back into the next generation.

Oh please... what a Sony pink world you live in. Sony bought some squaresoft stock, thats it. They did not Save them, the merger with Enix did. The company that exists now is called Square-Enix, it owes Sony nothing.

Also the majority of their fanbase in the SNES era would be attached to Nintendo and they still developed several titles for the playstation. This is not about hardware brand loyalty, its about money. The market has changed, its not Sony domination anymore. Companies need to adapt and make money. Get over it or get out.

Obviously talking about a western release/localisation. The game did come out in Japan.

So you really think they removed only the good parts, and left the linear parts when they decided to cut content?... Besides, devs leave out unused content all the time. The extra content from SMG1 later turned into SMG2. Which console are you going to blame this one on?

They might have delayed the game for X360, but I don't see any proof that they cut out parts of the game for the sole purpose of fitting it on X360. The guy talking about 7 discs could've been refering to compressed VS uncompressed audio/video, which we already know about.

One last thing is I remember cutscenes being released way early, they couldn't possibly have been finished with the game at the time, and yet I have yet to see a cutscene of something that's not in the final game. The art you saw means literally nothing. Remember all the Epic Mickey concept art we got at the beginning? ...They planned it this way from the start, they thought people would like it (...I did )

It will match all expectations as long as Team Nomura is allowed to do want they wanted to do.
They said always they can achieve everything with the PS3 cause its the only platform where there concepts can work.
But we all know that the upper ones at SquareEnix said 2 years ago that they are talking with Microsoft over that game and how Nomura is pissed about it.

As a PS3 Exclusive it has the chance to be the best Game in this Gen.
As Multiplat - Well hi again Final Fantasy 13 aka a game that is garbage and isn't anything near what they promised.

Nah - Bring it 2013
Sony is now at 70 Million Units - Next year they have tons of AAAAAA Exclusives coming out.
This would be one to push the PS3 over the 360.It will happen next year and they need every game for it cause this would bring them BIG Japan sales.