^ Thats a given in Japan at least!

I think Sony will keep the price high (maybe a drop of about $50-100) in the other regions but reduce the price in Japan further to spur PS3 uptake!

No chance what so ever.

-SE will move straight onto Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII (mmorpg)
-It will most likely require a hard drive (X360 doesn't have in every system)
-It will probably be about 5 disks big.
-FF games have always been exclusive to 1 console
-X360 is hated in japan.
-This game will convince nearly all fans to buy a PS3 and so X360 version will sell incredibly poorly. (No FF fans will want to wait a year+ for a game this big)
-X360 will probably be at the end of its like by the time this could posible be released (4.5-5 years old)

The list goes on...

Thanks to all those who stood up for me in the face of Auron's trolling.

Okay new forum rule. Unless you have a press release from the company producing the game you are NOT allowed to make a thread about X game going multiplatform. I have had enough FFXIII, MGS4, Mass Effect, Bioshock, etc. going multi-platform threads to last a lifetime.

New slimline PS3 with cheaper price and launch of FFXIII. PS3 sales will explode.

But Haeresis XIII has already been in development for the Wii for about a year and it's not an MMO... (already discussed in this thread)

Also FF games haven't always been exclusive. FF1 got ported to the MSX.

Final Fantasy tends to be multi-platform? WTF are you talking about? Half-hearted, half-assed PC ports of FFVII and a few others don't really count for much. Neither do decades-later ports to handhelds.

 I know you didn't say that, it was sarcasm. No one has to worry about the 360 in Japan, so let's just get rid of that one. If you go to a store in Japan, and want a new consoles that's lots of fun, and everyone is talking about, you have two options. The Wii and the PS3. The wii cost a LOT less, so it will sell a lot more.

When they cost the same (or the price is low enough for the masses to afford one), the PS3 will take off. It came out over priced, and it still is over prices. Once that changes (if it ever changes), it will be a different ball game. 

I know I do not speak for anyone here besides myself, although maybe I do.

I have loved the Final Fantasy franchise since Final Fantasy III on the SNES (FF VI) and up till FFX. I was like "ok, that was pretty bad but tolerable" with FF X-2 and completely "meh" with Final Fantasy XII, it has felt like they were changing this franchise for the worst, going from what it has always been to trying to please the god damn US audience. After looking at my FF X box the other day I realized this was in fact the last game Sakaguchi and Uematsu worked on. Without these two the series has changed, although hopefully FF XIII and Versus prove me wrong, but I wouldn't be suprised to one day see Final Fantasy a completely different franchise with a completely new fanbase.

I see them westernizing everything... great, exactly what we need, another bore fest like Oblivion. I couldn't even stand seeing it turn into Mass Effect. Good game Mass Effect is, but not for FF.

Oh god please let me be wrong. Still a day 1 purchase for me and the reason I grabbed a PS3, but Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey were such fine games and reminiscent of what Final Fantasy has always been for a life long fan such as myself.

I was counting the days before an idiot brings this up again.

Ever since MGS4 got release date and confirmed (after 3432432 times before) its PS3 exclusivity, people are bounded to jump on the next big PS3 third-party title.

*shrugs*, just the way it is. Some people will never give up.