^ You do realise that no-one has heard of around half of the games you just mentioned? ^

This is a video game forum sir. Those of us that have had more than 24 posts since January, do pay attention to what goes on. If you haven't heard of more than half of these games, how about taking a swing past IGN or 1up? Or maybe just put one ear out to 360 releases even though you don't own one. I don't own a PS3, but I'm sure I know more about the lineup than you do sir, including it's exclusives that "no-one has heard of".

@Loud_Hot_White_Box

Insulting a member is not tolerated, you now have a warning, next time you will be banned.

@Burgles & Loud_Hot_White_Box

Both of you need to find a way to make your point without being confrontational and disrespectful.  We get that you have strong feelings but you can get that across without the flamebait comments.  You are allowed to have and post just about any opinion (hate speech/etc being the exception) so long as you adhere to the rules when doing it.  

i agree in  principle, conversion should cost a fraction of development from scratch. But there are hidden costs due to being forced to put the game on multiple discs: production, warehousing and shipping, other than devising a convenient division in chapters and reliable and as little uncomfortable as possible way for disc swapping, so in conversions that force to use multiple discs I'd say it will be a little more than 10% (but at most 15%, so it should be profitable anyway if they manage to get even half decent sales for the converted version).

That is not the answer to my question. Microsoft would still have insisted the 360 get the game in Japan, and you know it.

I won't even bother.

Damn....sucks to see Tretton telling the truth. I mean they knew Microsoft was going to do it, when didn't they try and avoid the situation.

I know for sure the PS3 version of FFXIII will sell better in Japan but it might have some mix signals in North America and Europe because of its PS3 and Xbox 360 release.

a simultanous release of ff xiii in japan on both ps3 and xbox would have meant pushing release back at least half a year.

SE's strategy for this game looks like they release the game in japan and invest the money they get from the sales there into the localisation and porting costs. So I guess if ms would have wanted SE to push back release date to do a simultanous release they would have had to pay a lot more money, which would have probably been far more than they could have gained from that. so the only other option would have been a timed exclusive for ps3 in japan, and a later xbox 360 release when the port is done, but that probably would not help ms console sales in japan.

For the US/EU release on Xbox they probably payed not too much since it also makes sense for SE to sell multiplat to a bigger potential userbase.

That just supports my argument that S-E did it for their own reasons, not a payoff.

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