Nevermind.

Of course the PS3 was going to win out in the jrpg home console race (not that this is saying much. home consoles are weak jrpg-wise compared to handhelds.) As strong as the jrpg community is within the 360 community, there are boatloads of jrpg gamers who would rather die than buy an American console no matter how many jrpgs are on it due to subcultural issues (the stereotypical western otaku demographic) as well as many other jrpg gamers who may respect the 360 and how far it's gone in terms of Japanese software (and may even own the 360 itself as well as some Japanese 360 games) but yet still associate Final Fantasy and jrpgs with the Playstation brand (for most jrpg gamers, the Playstation, not a Nintendo or especially not a Sega system, was their first entry into jrpgs.)

The 360 version of FF13 does lose some steam for more compressed video, "only" 5 channel audio (and more compressed) and multiple discs but the majority of gamers don't have the video/audio setup to tell the difference and unless I'm underestimating society's laziness, I don't think the multiple disc thing is much of an issue for most people. How much of a pain is it really to swap discs a couple times (once for disc 2, once for disc 3)? The way that some people talk about it, you'd think that FF13 was like SO4 (where you gotta switch discs to backtrack. Bad move on Tri-Ace's part). So I think the whole "japanophile effect", Playstation-Final Fantasy association and Playstation brand loyalty will be the major factors. Not the other things.

The Playstation brand loyalty thing in particular is pretty huge. Considering that many gamers grew up with a PS1 or PS2 in childhood. I find the level of Playstation fanboyism on the internet to be annoying but if I think about it, the typical 16 year old PS fanboy was barely out of their diapers when the PS1 was released. Even an 18 year old man today was still only 3-4 years old when the PS1 was released. Many of these young fanboys grew up with Playstation 1 or 2 just like I grew up with the NES and Genesis in childhood. So it's understandable that the Sony Defense Force would have a lot of fiercely loyal fanboys. Nostalgia is very powerful. Even now, I wouldn't ever admit that the SNES was better than the Genesis. The Genesis holds a special place with me. So I can see it from the point of view of many of the PS fanboys on the internet). Of course the PS3 has older fanboys too. But I did notice that many of the fanboys tend to be young.

i wonder what if square will use the analog sticks to navigate the menus, because on the ps3 you have to use the dpad. by the looks of the screen i think it is the dpad because it shows LB to change classes, like the ps3s L1. also you can only use analog for summons and moving on the map...

Does it say FF in it's title? Was it made by square enix?
Being an MMO doesn't stop fans wanting FFXIV or including it in the FF series?

It's butt hurt fanboys that can't get over business.
I tend to think of FF as Ninty as like most people in gaming can only remember as far back as their playing days which explains why so many here consider FF to be Sony.

I like the way people will say FF is ninty and sony but heaven forbid MS as well. So it is allowed to jump platforms just not onto an MS one.

Maybe Apple should bring out a console and have FF on it then people will say FF should only be Ninty, Sony and MS BUT NOT APPLE!!! Grrr argh.

This clinging to brand loyalty with FF is laughable. People act like they are the ones who own and make the games.
You don't. You just buy them though it seems spend more time complaining on who should be allowed to play them.

Thank god these gamers just play the games, in between complaining about them, and don't make them. Don't need that mentality to seep into the devs themselves.

As did Kow and many others 360 fans at the start of January.

OT - Looks ok, not getting hyped over SS though, I'm waiting for reviews.

CGI-Quality said: Carl2291 said: So many people cheered when it was announced for the 360... Yet so few are excited for it No wonder the preorders aren't doing too well on 360. If this game doesn't sell at least 2 Million on the 360... Some people high up at SE will be pissed. Well, at that point, I'd imagine the franchise would just remain with Nintendo and Sony only.

Sorry?

How would say 1.5 million on Xbox 360 be a disappointment?  The additional porting costs are probably in the very low millions.  SE would make ridiculous additional profits off just that amount of sales.

That would be nearly double the amount of the nearest selling JRPG on either HD console.

i m sorry i m not trolling but these screens look wayy more unpolished compared to the screens i had seen before.it looks really blurry and not sharp at all.can some one post 2 pictures???one from ps3 and one from the 6 in the op?????

Sorry im just not interested in this game. Glad its coming to the 360 so that more gamers can experience this game if they so choose but its just not my cup of tea.

I'm buying both versions anyway.

mmh...naja...ok...I'm hyped a little bit, but only cause I like the girl in your avatar.