it's weird that they announced the game so early.

whether they wanted to expand the XIII universe or not, they should have focused on less titles at the same time to decrease the amount of time that it takes to complete... who do they have project managing these games?

on side note, why do they even bother numbering the online franchise?

The same reason they are calling versus and agito Final Fantasy 13 because the numbered Fantasies are money spinners.

The problem with that, is that unless you've known him for years, saying this means nothing.

It doesn't matter if he's sony driven, if S-E as a whole say there porting it over because they want to garantee they make money, then it's gonna be ported, regardless of what he thinks...it happen to kojima with MGS2, so it could happen to this guy as well.

I think it's gonna be ported as well, if not at launch then maybe sometime down the line.

I dont think thats going to be possible.

Link: http://kotaku.com/5271156/hows-final-fantasy-versus-xiii-coming-along

This was in May 2009:

In the latest issue of Japanese magazine Dengeki, Tetsuya Nomura provides an update. "The progress of developing Final Fantasy Versus XIII is going well," he says.

Nomura is surrounded with much of the same staff he's been working with since the FFVII days. According to Nomura, the staff and he are in tune and very much on the same page — they even catch things before he says them.

Currently the team is testing the battle and map mechanic over and over again as well as checking the game's lighting. "We did a lighting test for the cityscape during noon and evening," Nomura says. "It really gives a good impression — of a city right before your very eyes." Things like the character's actions are coming together bit by bit.

And with Final Fantasy XIII getting a new trailer at E3, Nomura adds, "I don't want to loose [to FFXIII]." While Final Fantasy XIII has been announced for the Xbox 360 in the West, Final Fantasy Versus XIII has only been announced for the PLAYSTATION 3.

Fair enough, man.

Don't get me wrong though, I own a PS3, and would like nothing more but to have FF13 Versus be a PS3 exclusive, but having said that, given all that S-E have done or lack their of, it's hard to be anything but pessimistic...and to be honest I don't know how you can be so optimistic despite all that's happened with S-E and PS3 owners.

So it was only announced, nothing really spells exclusivity, there's nothing to stop a 360 version from being announced in the future.

If Nomura and his team don't wanna port it to the 360, that's ok, S-E will simply get another team...take Valve, when they made the orange box for 360 and PC internally, EA got another one of their teams to work on the port, so there is a precedent for this.

Like I said, I want to be optimistic, but this is S-E, and they have done nothing on the PS3, everything they did with the PS2 was killed off when FF13 went to the 360, and even till this day S-E have released more games on the 360 than the PS3....it's not hard when they didn't release anything for the PS3 to begin with, so really one can only be pessimistic when talking about S-E and PS3 together in one sentence.

nah man that's cool...just your typical PS3 owner annoyed with the crap from S-E.

won't trust a word Kitase or SE said ever again. lol

- XIII goes multi-plat. (ok I'll take that from the business POV.)
- won't work on XBOX version until PS3 version is done. (BS)
- Pulled PS3 version's dual languages option. (why???????)

who knows what's next.

@Destroyer_of_knights.

Well then, it makes perfect sense that the team is only working on the PS3 platform. So I have a quest for you. Why not make it for the 360 at the same time in the first place? That is a question we may not have an answer to. But I'm 110% sure Nomura made it clear enough that it is staying on PS3. It's really up to him. He's the boss so to speak lol