January 12th, 1996.

It's been 10 years, 6 months, and 2 days since Square's allegience changed the face for Nintendo and Sony fans alike.

July 14th, 2008.

Very similar set of circumstances. A haughty company specced their system out wrong, and decided not to pursue a few key software, and hardware things and ended up costing them the entire generation rather quickly.

I was unfortunately on the recieving end of that decision..I purchased a Nintendo 64 souly based on Nintendo Power screens of FFIV on N64.

..And we know how that turned out.

Star Ocean. Tales. Very similar situation. I guess history is cyclical. Heck, this might even hurt Sony to weaken their stance for the market to continue to go to Nintendo even further, handing the banner back after 12 years in enemy territory.

But atleast this time, I can say I made the right decision in waiting 14hrs outside in 40* weather for my X360. I had a hunch that something of this magnitude was eventually going to surface. I never realized how right I would be..Seems to be about the best coup-de-gras a RPG fan and 360 owner could get. Dragon Age is coming to consoles too.

:)

Fortunately for PS3 fans, the damage is mitigated: Atleast you GET XIII. It took me 4 years of painful waiting to get VII, VIII and FFT for a $30 PS1 well after it's prime. So don't feel too bad. Just remember, you can't always put your faith into 1 company forever. Eventually even Nintendo, 2 or 3 Wii's from now will get toppled - Sony, MS, Apple, or some splorgenborg console will come along and scoop up FFXX or something, who knows. But it'll happen...Maybe 10 years and 6 months from now.

That was perhaps the most hurtful moment in all my years of gaming. This is not even close though comparable.

By the way it was FF 6 screens.

there is a difference, the PS3 wasnt dropped the 360 was just added.

Eh, business is business. And when one company has the pockets and influence of Microsoft these things end up happening.

At least PS3 owners still get the game (And probably the definitive version), so it's not as bad as it was for N64 owners back in the day, although it's still quite the unexpected announcement.
Hopefully the rest of E3 proves to be just as surprising.

Oh no, ssj12, I'm not arguing that.

But the sheer amount of facepalming, and stun is just at about the same level, but in the internet age. Yes, its a far smaller scale since the PS3 gets it (as mentioned at the bottom), but still...It's a big paradigm shift from even 2 years ago.

Hey, you took my line for your topic.

Not even close, what a terrible comparison.

Yeah, the FFVII situation was much much worse. We're still getting XIII and the Versus spinoff (supposedly still exclusive)

It's still the closest thing you'll get :-p