Your post fails, hard. Basically you are just flinging around opinions as basis for your arguments. Starting with the use of the word "steal", then the monetary value of the deal (which is something yet to be confirmed anyway, as if the revenue off 20+ million userbase wasn't enough a treat) to stating that it's a ps3 lead developed game when it's actually being bult on PC's on the multiplatform Crystal Tools. Rest of the post are repeated memes from the sony crowd: no internal studios, nothing to worry vs still exclusive, next xbox to come very soon, etc etc. Either you are somehow a hurting sony fan or have spent the last hours reading sony centric boards.

Really, if you are gonna post a long tirade make it worthwile - otherwise if it's all about the memetic jokes, make it chan-style. It'll be amusing at least.

but a single game in the series didn't cross 8 million on PS2...

Secondly i m not sure if they r testing it on PS3 or PC or both.. but atleast they were not using XBOX to test/run/debug at all till yesterday.. they didn't even start on it..

and i don't remember between 2 consoles there been more than 6 yrs distance ... so definitely 5th yr of XBOX will be the yr of unveiling of next XBOX..? do u think otherwise.?

i do agree that FFXIII is a loss.. but is it a big enough... thats the question.. would u have kept exclusivity and if so for how much price as a Sony PS3 chairman.?

Squeenix is using the same developing chain as capcom is. Games get built on a crossplatform tool on the PC and from there the code is forked into the different platform-specific environments. It means the 360 version will be made off the code coming from Crystal Tools multiplatform environment, not off ps3 code. It's not a PC>PS3>360 scenario, but rather a PC>PS3 and PC>360 setup. There's no lead platform.

As for the gaps between console gens, 6 year cycles isn't unheard of which would put next xbox somewhere in 2011. I agree this FF will be way late into the gen tho - FF10 was one year after ps2 launch, in comparison.

Finally, who knows. Sony's problem right now is that they can't really spare money for exclusivity deals. They have lost more than they expected to lose and the platform isn't becoming a leader so lifetime revenues will be lower than expected.

You seem to be under the impression the MS paid to have the game brought to the 360. Current statement from SE make it clear that this was a choice by SE to bring this game to as many NA console owners as possible and MS has those consoles. No money appears to have changed hands.