I put this under the Sony discussion because it's more Sony oriented since Versus XIII is exclusive (for now) and Agito XIII is coming to PSP.

Okay, looks like the Famitsu issue due to be released on Tuesday has leaked in certain stores in Japan. Someone on 2ch has gotten a hold of the mag but info is still trickling in. Here's what we know so far:

- The FFXIII demo disc included with FFVIIACC will be a PS3 disc, it's not on a standard blu-ray movie disc. This is good news for people with Euro PS3s, since it'll probably mean the demo will work even if the movie is region locked.

- There're 3 realtime screens of Agito XIII from the trailer, including a screen of Odin.

- 3 pages worth of FFXIII screens and stuff, about 20 screens. There are realtime screens too apparently.

- The FFXIII demo will be from the opening part of the game, and will be longer than FFVIIAC (longer than 90mins?)

- 4 pages on Versus, about 10 screens all realtime.

- The world in Versus XIII worships a Shinigami and the Shinigami is designed by Amano

- The cars and clothing seen in the trailers so far will probably change in design for the final game

- The morale of the team is really high!

 AGITO XIII:

- They moved it to the PSP because they couldn't wait for cellphones to get more advanced lolz

- The battle will be heavy on action but still sort of turn based. It will use an advanced version of Crisis Core's high speed ATB system.

- Crisis Core was 1 player, but this time there will be multiple characters in the party.

- Right now it supports Infrastructure multiplayer for up to 3 players.

- Summons are part of the character growth system, and can also be controlled by players after summoning.

- The game will support both Ad-hoc and Infrastructure.


Edit (updates/clarifications):

- FFXIII will definitely have a party battle system, where you control each character as they switch turns, like in a normal FF. It will not be like FFXII (THANK GOD).

- FFXIII's story is being written such that every single of the main characters will feel like protagonists, instead of just supporting characters.

- At the top of the building where the prince and the heroine of Versus meet, there is a painting. That painting is the Shinigami that is worshipped in the world, and the painting of it in the game itself, is drawn by Amano.

- The name of the prince and the heroine in Versus will be revealed at TGS.

Pulled from Famitsu

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=331546

Well thats great with tha battle system i really liked it.

Now why would they need to say such things?

I like the idea of trying to make every character feel like a main character, but that can backfire. I believe that's what they were kind of trying for with FFXII, and instead it ended up where noone really felt like a main character and you were playing with a bunch of side characters.

^yea I know wat u mean. I didn't beat FFXII but my friend did and when we talked about it, the main character argument came up and I was like "so and so was a weak main character" and he said "so and so was the main characters, not that guy," I was like "wut?" When u make ur main character(s) indistinguishable from another, that's a failure waiting to happen.

Or it could end up like FF6 which had an awesome cast of characters all fleshed out.

So its turn based? I'm confused. Wasn't it suppose to be more real time than turn based like FFXII? That is what I got from the first trailer. Anyway thank god that it will use a party battle system.

very true.  Don't get me wrong, I would love it if it worked out.  I just hope they don't fall into the same pitfall.  I think the main issue was that FFXII didn't focus enough on character development in general, so when you spread that out among all the characters they felt like side characters.  Now if instead you really delved into each character and gave them development worthy of a main character, then it would work out awesome.

Yea I'm a little confused about that too. The trailers made it seem like if it was very action RPG like, so IDK how u would control the party

Am hoping that I can get over 150 hours of gameplay on the ps3 version of ff13 if the demo is that long. YAY!!