I added this to my original post "If there is a Versus for 360 announcement, it won't be till after FF13 releases in NA/EU. At least then they will have an idea of how the franchise sells on the 360." As for moneyhatting, unless a Developer comes out and says it, it's all speculation and entirely irrelevant. The games now there and it is not going to change, whether or not they bought it doesn't really matter much.

As for FF13 on 360, I didn't really see it coming and sure as heck wasn't it expecting it that soon. I thought maybe they would wait longer and allow more time for sales on both sides before making a decision.

Considering it is the only JRPG only for PS3 so far in Japan it's hard to say. Who's to say that it's a guarantee it will sell near WKC numbers on PS3. Answer is...we don't know since we have nothing to go off of accept one game so far. It shows that PS3 will definitely be good for helping get sales in Japan but it cannot be stated as a guarantee at this point either.

(Sorta off topic here but not) since we have been discussing JRPG very in depth in here I wanted to let you guys see the new info I came across for Magna Carta 2's battle system. It is from www.siliconera.com.

Softmax wisely scrapped the Trinity Rings from Magna Carta: Tears of Blood. Famitsu reports the combat system in Magna Carta 2 is new and makes use of the environment through field attributes.

After a real-time field to combat switch players control a leader character while the computer takes care of the other party members. Leaders can be changed at anytime and there is a benefit to a swap. Team attacks from the chain system can be used after a leader change. Linked attacks between hero Juto and heroine Zephie may not grab your attention, but Magna Carta 2 has some cool looking encounters like this fight against a monstrous worm.

I admit, the comparison is there, but being that they're being developed simultaneously and have nothing to do with each-other (not as a sequel or direct spin-off) I still view it with a different eye then FFX-2.

I almost wish they hadn't called it FFV13 and instead called it something else, because some people seem to want to marginalize Versus by calling it a "spin-off". But of course, by adding "Final Fantasy" to the title the sales potential grows tenfold. However, this is all really semantics, as the title and designation as a spin-off or not will not directly affect the games quality in any form. (especially in this case)

I doubt Versus will come to 360. Stranger things have happened....but the most recent trailer for versus clearly stated "only for Playstation 3." If it does end up coming to 360, its not going to be for a long while. And thank the lord there is someone else out there who won't instantly say Microsoft moneyhatted every exclusive game on the console.

Final Fantasy 13 Versus for Xbox 360! E3 2009 Megaton confirmed!

Well making accusations of moneyhatting is a coping tactic for some, a way of marginalizing (yeah using that word again) the game itself, as if it is a lesser game because it was moneyhatted.

I will admit that when SO4 was first announced for 360, I thought that some money may have change hands. I own a 360 and PS3, so for me it wasn't a fanboyish thing. It just seemed really odd to me at the time. But it simply could have come down to the fact they wanted to get the game out sooner rather then later and Tri-Ace had experience with with the 360. (they even used the IU engine I think)

HUh?!/sarcasm/

Hypothetically if that happened, I would be very disappointed if that were the biggest news of E3.

I'm sure i'm not alone in this thinking when the biggest announcement of E3 is the release of a game on another platform when you already own the other platform as well.

I'd be so unhappy if that would be a big surprise or announcement. That being that the big news would be a big disappointment for E3.

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