FFXIII to be held back on PS3 due to Xbox 360 version
- Posted August 3rd, 2008 at 03:48 EDT by
- 158 Comments
During the DKS3713 event yesterday, Square Enix director Motomu Toriyama revealed that the US and European versions of Final Fantasy XIII will be held back on the PlayStation 3 due to development of the Xbox 360 version.
In a behind the scenes video produced by Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura, Toriyama reconfirmed the development plans for Final Fantasy XIII.
"We haven't changed the direction of the development," said Toriyama. "We're making the PS3 version first, and then porting to the 360 later."
With the PS3 version complete and hitting Japan in 2009, PS3 gamers in the United States and Europe will have to wait until the Xbox 360 port is done. According to Nomura, his team didn't receive Xbox 360 development kits until a few days ago, so depending on how long it takes the Square Enix team to port the title, the U.S. and Europe may not receive Final Fantasy XIII until 2010.
As his final comment, Noruma stated that the PS3 version will not suffer due to the Xbox 360 development.
"We aren't going to change any specifications because of the multi-platform announcement," he said. "Right now, we're fully concentrating on the PS3 version."
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draculaboy
- 10:53pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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good news
it is not going to be crap like the xbox version
hope it will be great
but were is the shocking announcement
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ps3ruler24
- 11:00pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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not a big fan of final fantasy but, that is very upsetting that a once exclusive game for the ps3 now has to be held back because of Squares' greed to port it to the 360. This is one of the worst decisions that could ever be made!
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Mike_Harradence
- 11:01pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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@ Draculaboy
According to the 1up podcast, the major announcement was the demo
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APerez
- 11:05pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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wow....thats honestly all I can say is wow. First , they break exclusivitivity with PS3 and make it multi-plat. Then they promise a shocking announcement and its just a demo! THEN they push back the ps3 release just to accomodate the xbox 360 and to release it at the same time on a console that wasn't suppose to have it in the first place!
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draculaboy
- 11:05pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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but how is that good to sony
we need more exclusives
not a demo
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edward_moffet
- 11:11pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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why would you let this happen square i mean i could understand if you were prepared to dev on 360 but why would you hold back the whole entire project for this, thats not even smart business, alls i can do is shake my head
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edward_moffet
- 11:24pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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i just want to say for the record this is exactly why i dont give microsoft my money because they will pull everyone down to get to the top, this was nothing but an act of desperation because sony is gaining ground
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TaMszz
- 11:27pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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That's somewhat enough. I'm not going to wait 2-3 years for some game. Especially when it's going to be held back just because of xbox360.
square-enix has really lost it, but well it's most likely microsoft paying them load of money and it won't even help them. I'm pretty sure that all the FF fans will be getting ps3 since then you also get ffxiii versus.
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Hyourinmaru
- 11:41pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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i knew this kind of crap was goin to happen why not just cancle the 360 version
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Soul_Reaver
- 11:44pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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Don’t blame SE blame M$ that are like Disease spreading an infecting everyone that seduce people with money and it’s very hard to say no to big amount of money when they are offered its just that M$ or AIDS of gaming world that describes them better are giving people big amount of money and human nature always works first for himself so they agree to make their game bad but get more money or make Ps3 version look like **** and get more money so blame AIDSSOFT selling low level products to us and covering it all up with money.
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Hyourinmaru
- 11:45pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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the demo was the FINAl shocking announcement? what a crap so much for a FF7 remake SE reli lost my respect
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HeartAttackSilv3rback
- 11:58pm EDT - August 2nd, 2008
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hold on there fella's.. a post on 1up.com said that there is still 2 more days left of the convention.. is this true?
if so then we still have yet to see our "megaton" announcement.
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Marcelis
- 12:00am EDT - August 3rd, 2008
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Ok....soo..I'll admit, I'm ppleased about the titles going to the PSP, and yeah, I'm happy about there being a demo...but really, I'm sorry, but thse people have a VERY warped view on whats considered 'shocking'. I'm picking up both FF13 and FFvs13 and the announcements have cemented my decision to buy a psp, but next time, they must look in a fricken dictionary before going on about a 'shocking' announcement.
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Remnant
- 12:01am EDT - August 3rd, 2008
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Considering they need to do voiceover and translation. Here is hoping the porting takes less time. I can't say I feel a supportive attraction to SE games any more. I have great respect for Kojima and Nomura but other than that, I think everyone else is in it for money more than the passion of milking a single system for all its worth.
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