Seriously guys the hate in here is rather pathetic to say the least. Square obviously looked to Sony for help funding FFXIII and got nothing from them to help them make the best game they could. The only avenue left to fund the game at that point was for either Microsoft to have part funded the game or for them to have made the decision themselves that the extra revenue by going multiplatform would minimize the risk.

Stop being hypocritical with your criticism, Sony first and foremost are to blame for this supposed debacle that has happened, NOBODY else. I guess this point conveniently slipped your mind when you all saw the opportunity to jump on the hate 360 and SE wagon today.

i didn't buy tekken 6, hell Arcade version looks better, and it arcade its pratically a PS3. >_> how they screwed it beyond me

I just wish people would only buy exclusives. Supporting muliplatform games is so bad for gaming. It makes me sad seeing great devs like IW, Criterion, and Rockstar's talents go to waste making these underwhelming pee ons of the gaming industry. Whether its on PS3, Wii, 360, or PC these devs just need to stick to making a great game on one platform instead of a C game on multiple.

Well if a boycott is about lack of quality then increasing the quality on a PS3 game would Guarantee a better return or else that would not be the reason for a boycott. The boycott would simply be because PS3 owners don't want to buy games period. But that is besides the point. Assuming it doesn't guarantee as you say, yes you could argue your argument but only as a single firm. But again the market and a firm act in two different ways. If there was more money to be made in the 360 market then you would assume that other companies would move into making games for that audiance. If there is money to be made on high quality ports to the PS3 then other companies would move into that as well. If there is potential to make money, companies will be created to fill those markets. 

Like it or lump it, but getting to market first, and getting the market share it did, the 360 locked most games into DVD level of content or less. Sony titles such as Uncharted 2 will use the BR of course, but most multiplatform games - with the probable exception of RPGs, will stick to one DVD of content.

If that means less textures, more compressed textures or whatever that's what you're going to get.

Simple market economics and realities. Sony will of course push titles with more content, such as Uncharted 2, and where the game needs multiple disks, such as Rage or FFXIII, then one BR disk will be used more effectively.

Just the way it goes.

I never said that you would buy DLC, I said people will buy it regardless if SE did take it out just to make extra money.

Here are the scenarios:

Runs worse on the Xbox 360: People wouldn't have been surprised.

Runs the same on both: Well people can live with that.

Runs better on the Xbox 360: Epic meltdowns, remember how the internet crashed with the announcement?

I would suggest that its more likely the Xbox 360 version was toned down than the PS3 version was toned down from a runtime/gameplay perspective because the negative consequences for the former are not so great as the latter.

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Oh really? If they are limited to 6.8GB they would use all space available. As of yet theres no real space pressure. Sony has given a mandate to pimp Blu Ray to its exclusive developers, so of course they are going to throw everything they can into the disc to make it bigger.

Slowmo....

Since when has Sony ever been a 3rd party developers bank? It is not up to Sony to fund a 3rd party game.

What's your point?  Not all games are going to fill a DVD, heck there are games that would barely fill up a CD.  My point is that the 360 established the DVD as the standard in line with PC, vs Sony's attempt to push the notion of BR and games needing more space.  This is a fact.  I'm not saying that games are being held back, simply that with DVD as a standard developers will use that as the baseline, with only occasional games going over 1 DVD and most of those will be Sony exclusives pushing the notion of more content.  Games have always ben developed (and material has been cut) to fit to the prevelant storage medium.  On PC a lot of games did go beyond DVD, but due to the fact you always install they could unpack themselves accordingly.

Calm yourself.

I personally doubt many games will go over DVD for a while, the cost is too high.  However, if we do want better textures, larger worlds, etc. then the DVD barrier will need to be broken.  Right now though that's titles like Rage (when it releases) or Uncharted 2, which will only represent a minority of titles for a while yet I think.