Square Enix's White Engine is cross platform
- Posted September 9th, 2007 at 07:33 EDT by
- 22 Comments
Square Enix's Hiromichi Tanaka said in a keynote address at Austin GDC that Final Fantasy XIII's foundations are built on the developer's "cross platform" White Engine.
"Development is proceeding smoothly now, with the framework now beginning to take shape. Last year we went through a development reorganization, with the development of our own cross-platform middleware – the white engine. This is the foundation for FFXIII and the new MMO," he stated.
Square Enix had previously suggested that White Engine was built specifically for PS3. However, a new MMO is currently in development that also uses White Engine, and it will be a cross platform and cross region title. Undoubtedly the news of a cross platform engine will spark rumors of a cross platform Final Fantasy XIII. But at the moment, only the unannounced MMO will benefit from White Engine's multiplatform development.
Source: GamaSutra
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The Cleaner
- 8:41am BST - September 9th, 2007
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Square is probably one of the top two most influential studio's that support Playstation. Sony should think about keeping them happy by giving them whatever they want. Even if its a lot of money.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 11:59am BST - September 9th, 2007
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This doesn't make any sense. If square was working on a cross platform engine why would the license the unreal 3 engine. Is this a mistranslation? SE has been pretty shrewd and they do not seem like they love to throw money away.
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FantasyStar |
Tirin- 4:45pm BST - September 9th, 2007
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That's a shame Alpha2, Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata seem like pretty solid RPGs to me. Just because it doesn't measure up to the FF Franchise doesn't exclude it from being a good RPG ya know. FF is not King.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 6:29pm BST - September 9th, 2007
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FantasyStar, alpha didn't say the games were bad, he just say they didn't do to well in japan. And the sales number prove that he is correct. Personally I dislike Blu dragon and eternal sonata is just one gameplay mechaninc away from mirroring tri-aces awesome previous masterpeice Radiata stories. The only thing I didn't like was they way the timer was set up in the battles.
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Twizz |
Twizz9- 8:08pm BST - September 9th, 2007
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This dose not mean the FF titles in development will go to Xbox. But I mean what did people expect them to do? Its much, much easier to modifly an existing engine than to make a whole new one for just 1 game. It would take to much time and money. The MMO was always going to be cross platform (PS3/PC/Xbox360). Just like FFXI.
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faizal5k |
fizzel89- 9:26pm BST - September 9th, 2007
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Well, this may mean that the White Engine will come to 360, it does not mean FFXIII will come to 360 too. There will be other games for both PS3/360 that use the white engine. 360 can't handle FFXIII, it's just too powerful. SquareEnix even said that the amount of dat for FFXIII so far can't even fit on TWO Dual-layered DVDs!! But you never know, previous FF games for PS1 had multiple discs :(
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JD-82 |
JD-82- 11:10pm BST - September 9th, 2007
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For the love of Zeus...Does it really matter if SE are using the White Engine on more than one platform? Does it really matter if FFXIII appears on more than one platform? When it comes down to it no single game will ever shift the momentum of a console war even the AAA titles like FFXIII and MGS4 won't do it. The people that want a PS3 will buy one, it's that simple...lets just leave it at that!
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The Cleaner
- 7:34am BST - September 10th, 2007
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@JD-82 It does matter because FF and other top shelf titles are the primary reason people buy PS3. If they are not exclusive then we loose some of those customers and the whole PS3 pool gets smaller. It also means we might get the ported sloppy seconds so the games might not be all that great. I'd like to have as many unique games as possible designed specificaly for PS3 architecture.
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