Oh, of course it will have an impact on 360.  I don't think I said it wouldn't in the O.P.

Actually, FFXIII not coming to Japan at all. Link

So still very good for Sony in the country where this game matters the most.

Microsoft did good in getting this, but for only US and EU is not that great. They're already pretty strong in the U.S., and their EU presence is still not as strong as PS3s. It would have helped to have exclusivity, but the Multi-plat release of this game isn't going to be as colossal as exclusivity would have been.

thanks for trying to make me feel better, but it wont do any good, we're screwed unless sony shows something new on par with ff.

Now ff will turn into an ea franchise like fifa, and will probably start to suck big time.

startcraft: from what i recall you said you werent interested in final fantasy 13 only versus. So aside from a sale perpective you got no reason to be happy.

BREAKING BREAKING:

According to Kotaku's liveblog of Square Enix's conference, FFXIII will most likely not be released on 360 in Japan. In addition, FF Versus XIII has been confirmed to not be multi platform.

http://kotaku.com/5025033/liveblogging-square-enix-press-conference

Duh.

Everone is happy for a game when it's on their console of choice.

So versus XIII is still exclusive, and XIII isn't coming out in Final Fantasy's biggest market.

And rather than trying to make me look like a liar, you could pop you're head into a couple of other threads where I've said about three times in the last hour that this only means anything to me if Versus follows suit, otherwise I still need a PS3.

As this thread is about SALES, that is what I stuck too.

OT:

DMeisterJ, I think SE has simply done what makes good business sense.  Noone paid them anything.  It's not affordable not to make the game multiplatform in the West, and financially irresponsible to port a Japanese localization. 

I've been paying out Microsoft's inability to keep secrets all week, but this is huge.

DMJ....this is damage control, thinly veiled. The game wouldn't sell in Japan if it was released on the 360 anyway. The only thing your saying is, "Well it won't sell well on the 360 anyway."

A lot of PS3 owners bought the console for FFXIII.

The loss of it as an exclusive to a system with an already superior library is devistating. There is no getting around that, even if it just sold one copy.

i give up. thank you SOny.

It's interesting to note that in the early trailers for both of these games, the FF Versus XIII trailers always emphasized PS3 exclusivity much more than the FFXIII trailers. In Kotaku's liveblog, Square also said that FFXIII on 360 is a recent development. Putting two and two together, it sounds like Sony secured FF Versus XIII exclusivity very early on, but didn't persue FFXIII as hard. This is most likely because FF Versus XIII exclusivity would cost much less for exclusivity simply b/c it isn't a mainline game. It seems like Sony has been planning for this day for ages. In other words, they never thought that they could conceivably secure FFXIII exclusivity so they made sure they got something else. This also jives with their supposed Rockstar relationship in which they let GTA go multiplatform and instead secured some new IPs (even though we have yet to actually see those IPs).