well there part to blame microsoft.
but what they can do? they suck at making hardware, and they are not good at software either.
they have to stay competitive.
but the feel the RPG have been rushed, with little improvement really to the 360 situation in japan.
if sony had all rpg, microsoft would not have even passed the million.

Well outlaw...i mean his comment about MS digrading JRP's could hold truth...y are those game so crappy???, maybe because MS paid for everything to the point where regardless of the games success..they lose nothing which would create incentive to produce half assed games..get the money and fund a real project

This, ladies and gentlemen, is an ignorant article, filled with lies and spin, meant to degrade FFXIII, Square-Enix, and Microsoft, as revenge for XIII going multiplat, and it doesn't get anymore obvious than that.

Its entire thesis, all dolled up as it may be, is based off of an apparent leap in logic, between 2 statements made by SE, a year apart. The assumptions and implications derived from said hole, are presumptuous at best, and preposterous more often than not.

I am dumbfounded having read that.

Why does history repeat itself?

The developers that have released mediorce to bad JRPGs so far this generation have not much acclaim. I mean, From Software has not had the highest success in their games but they every once in a while put out a great one. The same is with Tri-Ace. Resonance of Fate could very well be a pretty good game, but their previous releases this generation have not been very good in my opinion.

MS setting deadlines for games and the developers inability to meet those deadlines are a problem. Who is truly at fault? The person who set the deadline or the person who failed to meet it?

Ok, question. Does anyone here actually subscribe to the conspiracy theory that FFXIII was indeed a multiplat from the start of its development, and has been drastically dumbed down in order to accommodate DVD's size limitation, meaning everything that has ever been said about the game from Sony, Microsoft, and Square-Enix is a conspiratorial lie with the intent to deceive, all because of KoToR and its impact on the worldwide gaming audience?

That is the articles conclusion, btw.

Also, that games like Tales of Vesperia are automatically inferior because they're multiplats, and would be better, were they PS3 exclusives, because of BR, and the graphical potential Killzone 2 has shown us, and that in fact, all games would be better, if they were PS3 exclusives.

Thats it am getting FF XIII used XD

@ Zen

I'd argue that an exclusive has a much higher chance of being better than a multiplatform game because the developers can focus on only one platform.

That the game was MP to begin with? Maybe, highly unlikely though.

Tales of Vesperia? Yes, it is better on PS3 due to bluray. Had the game been a similtaneous release we would all be getting the bare minimum(360's level of content). Seeing as the game gets a delayed release it comes with oodles of more stuff, in effort to utilizing all it has to offer. Just look at all the extra content the PS3 version will be getting.

Killzone 2? self explainatory

I dont believe it was MP from the start but I do believe that year and some change where all the FF fans were going nuts due to serious lack of any info or update on the game was due to some internal workings. Remember that FFXIII was already completely designed(story/concept wise) and had already begun DEVELOPMENT on the PS2. SE got wind of the PS3 and the popularity of FFVII Advent Children and the game was remodeled for next gen. That should mean the game was already planned out for the most part, few tweaks here and there. What the hell else was taking so long. Why not an ounce of info for so long?

And there is no denying that Square Enix lied to their fans about FFXIII.....many times over....

i've read every single word of the article and it is way too obvious that it was written out of anger, of Final Fantasy 13 not being exclusive anymore.
and the anger of the fanboys is poorly disguised as that they are only mad because the ps3 version will be dumbed down because of it being multiplat.

more people get to play a AAA game, idk see what the anger is for.

and because of the childness of fanboys i'm getting this game for 360 :D