http://www.siliconera.com/2011/04/24/lightings-house-was-cut-from-final-fantasy-xiii-but-you-can-see-pictures-of-it/

"Artwork was created for Lightning's living room and bedroom. You could practically walk through Lightning's house. However due to space issues the island was cut from FFXII"

Like you said, this supposed space issue is obviously not from the BluRay side.

There were several Artworks released for FFXIII that depicted unvisited areas by the time that game released. A few of them appear eerily similar to FFXIII2 locals. When this was pointed out, these images vanished from the internet, as did the comments from disgruntle SE devs that said during the porting process they were told that several plot points were dropped due to "space limitations" and it was important to fit no more than 3 discs(as MS was waving their fee attached to shipping on multiple discs). I will continue to see if I can find it....

I wasn't saying Sony fans like FF13. I'm saying it was another game in series that disappointed.

I believe these quotes more than the crap you're presuming.

"There wasn't all this other stuff that we wanted to include but had to cut. It was more of a selective process you'd find in any development process, where there were a lot of ideas but then we chose the best of those to include in the final game. The things that were cut either didn't make sense in the storyline, would slow down the pace of the game or were otherwise unnecessary."

"There is no plan for these things that were cut -- because they weren't essential to the game -- to be revived as downloadable content," laughing as he remarked that he wouldn't want to add back in the stuff he didn't think should be in there in the first place.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/15/yoshinori-kitase-cut-final-fantasy-xiii-content-will-not-return/

Shit gets cut when they make video games, movies, and other forms of media. Frankly, I can think of some games that could have been a lot better if they cut out some content.

Never look at the number of a review, it misleads more than it helps. For example, GTA4 is the highest rated game ever on metacritic. If you want to learn anything from a review, first look at the reviewer's history, what sort of games they were positive about and why Again, do not simply use the number here, read the whole review, the words are there for a reason. Do they review games for themselves or for their target audience? If the former, then ask yourself, are they the target audience of the game I'm looking at the review of. If the latter, ask themselves if YOU are the target audience. If you're reading a single review and it takes you less than 2 hours, you are going to come out knowing less than you started.

As for how it was bad:

Plot, character development, levelling system, combat mechanics, linearality. You name it, it was bad in it. The only ways it didn't completely suck are the two things that are an afterthought in games for me, sound and graphics.

But my opinion and yours don't have to be the same, nor does yours have to be the same as the popular opinion.What did you like about it?

Oh fuck! That whole thing was cut! Well nevermind! We would need like 10 fucking DVDs for that.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/15/yoshinori-kitase-cut-final-fantasy-xiii-content-will-not-return/

but of course YOU would say that what i'm "presuming" is "crap"

some people only see what they want to see..

edit: hold on

well i personally thought ff13 was good " it was just hated on because it didn't live to the standards of the previous ones, but that doesn't make the game itself  bad, "aliens colonial marines was bad" ff13 was just a let down, anyways nothing from the game "apart from it's graphics" stood out, but i couldn't find anything bad about it, it was a little to linear though

My point was merely that the reason FFXIII sold worse than its predecessors was because it was worse than it's predecessors.

You can argue that it (when judged out of context from other FF games) was good, but then, when judged out of context of normal FF sales, 6.89 million sales is good, no?

again, thats not showing me that they cut content because of 360. Nothing shown has said that content was cut cause of 360, you read space and content and atuomatically assumed its cause of 360, where is the proof? I want you, all of you to continue cause i want you to find where a SE rep said, "we had to cut content so it could fit on 3 DVD discs for 360" that would be undeniably proof. Since on one said that, that means

A) its BS and thats not what happened or B)...there is no B why would they just NOT come out and say that? it makes no sense. MS isnt anywhere near big enough to censor SE, and its not like they really need MS especially after sales of the last game. What benefit is there? Lets just say for the sake of argument it was true, according to Kitase, he himself stated what was cut was not essential to the game anyway, so there is no magical alternate universe where had it remain exclusive it would have been a better game. It would have been roughly the same, hell it might have been worst, just more hallways. What was stopping SE from just making another damn disc for 360? FF 8&9 had 4 discs and no dont say disc costs from MS cause that makes no sense either. MS went TO SE wanting FF13 for 360, MS paid for exclusive US ads; for both 13 and 13-2. MS bundled the damn game with their system. So why would they bust SE chops over another disc or two if they really needed it? They wouldnt to have one of the biggest franchises on their system that they didnt have before one would imagine they would just bend over backwards and wave those fees, if they are their to begin with. I mean, hell they spent alot of money already for that game already. 

No I think SE just sucked if we wanna "read between the lines" dont stop their. The fact that we still dont have versus 13, 13 was meh, and FF14 was horrid and we still dont have a date for the PS3 version tells me that SE just sucked on consoles this gen. It sucks, if someone told me a couple years ago that the best stuff coming out of SE would be from their Eidos branch; something that they freaking bought. I would have asked him what he was smoking and who his connect was. But here we are and no the portables dont cut it cause half those damn games are ports anyway.

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some of these numbers are a little unfair, mostly because they don't have much to do with the platform, more just the quality of the game. Such as Final Fantasy XIII, it was a Sony exclusive in japan but still didn't preform, it just wasn't as good as the last. Same goes with Devil May Cry (not to mention a COMPLETELY different dev), the Kingdom Hearts Side Games, Metal Gear Rising was good, but Platinum games is notoriously niche. Crash Bandicoot is done by a different developer now, Persona 4 Ultimate is a completely different kind of game. The fact is more that awesome classic series new titles are not up to the standard of their predecessors, I think that is the main problem.