Agreed. The dubs for that show were awesome, in English, German, whatever.

Well, if the English dub of FFXIII is anything like FFXII, I'll be using it. FFXII had exceptional voice acting, I thought.

All I saw was "we're thinking about just releasing it in English"

That better not be the case for BOTH versions. Otherwise, it's already clear that the 360 version is "holding back" the PS3 version

They could just add this later via DLC, like in FIFA

Million said: Squilliam said: I watch anime in Japanese even when the English dubs are available.   "even when the english dubs are availible" would imply that Japanese dubs>English dubs.   e.g I play my PS3 even when PSN is down

of course they are - let's start with the fact that when anime is dubbed they often change dialogues to fit in often losing sense or characteristic Protagonists sayings.

not to mention they usually soften the language because we all know that anime is only for kids:/ thanks to that many jokes are lost. plus if you have subs you can always use explanations for many things that typical non-japanese people won't understand, will simply miss it or will be confused when it's important to the story.

i would rather hear

somethin no jutsu

than

white turtle splashing water on sunny day under cherry blossoms behind grocery store technique

Well, I'm pretty sure the mainstream doesn't care for JP voices.

For movies/TV I almost always prefer subtitles to dubs no matter what the original language is with a few exceptions. Disney tends to do an excellent job with the Studio Ghibli stuff and I can enjoy those with the english or japanese voices, but those are an exception. Anything live action, ALWAYS subtitles.

For games it really depends on the quality of the voicework but in general I prefer to be taking in the graphics with games and not worrying about reading subs during cutscenes. Bad english dubs can definitely ruin the experience though and I'd prefer the original voices in those cases.

I do agree though that the mainstream won't care. Why do you think they still sell fullscreen movies FFS. Some people don't care that they're missing 1/3 of the movie, they just want it to fill their TV screen!  Also, if anime fans all prefered subs to dubs then there wouldn't be dubbed versions included would there?

I don't think this will affect the 360 sales at all..It is expected that they will be lower than the PS3 regardless

But the PS3 version will have both english and Japanese, right?

They said that both versions will be indentical so I doubt it personally.