@mummelmman - RROD

uhg, no. My store gets at least 2-3 360's traded in a week with some illness or another. If it is not RROD then its drive failure, or Disc Tray breaking, etc. The system is faulty and poorly made, no argument can save it from that. The failure rate is still about 30% even without RROD.

Let them finish FFV and FFVI remakes for the DS before stepping up into the PS1 games. Anyways I agree that the next big title for non-hanheld consoles will be for the HDs, though it may come as early as 2011 or as late as 2015.

while everyone is entitled to there own opinion I must STRONGLY disagree.  The gap between the two systems is much larger then most want to admit. Even with all the developers saying the PS3 is more powerful no one ones to believe it simply because the games are not showing it yet, this is sensible. But with all this Multiplat Garbage the systems will never be able to prove it now will they? A console cannot prove its superiority through multiplats, it has to be an EXCLUSIVE so it can use FULL specs. Blu Ray still is not being fully utilized, with most games only scratching the surface.

And of course no 360 gamer would have a problem with yet ANOTHER PS3 game going multiplatform, what does that prove? THat there are actually games that 360 audience want that was on the other system, thats what. Meaning any sales generated from 360 would have simply been added to the PS3 total console sales. Exclusives make a connsole, otherwise people will just look for the cheapest one they can find. This is what is going on right now with some games jumping ship. Resident Evil, FF, DMC, etc all these games jumped to multiplatform with little to show for it besides a lot of pissed off fanboys/girls. The only people losing this gen are the console owners, multiplat will be the death of both of them because without deciding games to sway a buyers vote they simply will remain splitting the audience instead of sharing it.

Final Fantasy is to PS1 as Disney was to Blu Ray, the final straw to break the camels back. Once FFVII hit the PS1 there was no hope for NIN making ANY sort of comeback for 2 generations. This is the kind of power that FFVII held.

Sales of Final Fantasy VII: the best selling Final Fantasy EVER!

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=756&region=All

One of the many articles stating how Tetsuya favors the PS3....

http://www.gamegrep.com/news/2956-tetsuya_nomura_gives_props_to_ps3_wants_to_experiment_with_final_fantasy_gameplay/

Cant find the one where he says he does not like the 360's architecture, hate is an exageration, but he still does not like it. Wii he has given no real stance on, hence indifferent.

Never the less, you simply cannot ignore the success of this particular game. The game was loved by many, hated by few. You simply are one of those who dont like to appear as if they are conforming with the masses so they say they hate something or pretend as if it was the worst thing ever.

A Final Fantasy VII remake may not make 10mil but hey, if Halo can make 8mil as an exclusive why can't a game that has more background and fanbase do it?

Okay, errorrrr, perhaps I should have spelled this out:  when I said "a Nintendo handheld" I did NOT mean the DS but the successor to the DS.  I do not think they will come out with a FFV remake and a FFVI remake AND a FFVII remake before the next generation of handhelds.

But the DS IS in fact a more powerful system than the PS1.  It has been said that the DS is comparable in power to the N64 which was actually much stronger than its competitor; but the tiny texture cache made it look bad and the hardware was difficult to develop for very well.  (Incidentally, after reading the Wikipedia page about how much extra work was apparently needed to get the most out of the N64, the comparisons to the PS3 become almost scary.)

Look at my list of games before you say foolish things.

 Your store is one place. There are literally millions of Xbox 360's that have been shipped out. The 30% failure rate was 2 years ago. Let it go. You're only looking for reasons to hate the 360 because it's Sony's biggest rival right now. 

So may I assume your store only sells 6-9 360s a week?  Because that is what would have to be true to justify your anecdote.  (2/6 and 3/9 = 33%)  And in any case your anecdote is not overall truth. 

On the other hand, I do believe that the 360's RRoD and other problems make for the most epic failure of this gen hands down.  No contest -- well, unless you count Sony PR, but the 360 is still worse.

Why all think FFVII HD will be the ultimate game? A remake almost never sold as much as the original, a example is the Pokemon Red/Blue/Green on GBA, it sold 2/3 less than the originals and Pokemon Red/Blue/green was a game at least 3 times more important than FFVII.