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No Final Fantasy For Xbox 360[update]
Posted: 2007-06-06 02:39am
by Ace Pace
IGN.
No Final Fantasy For Xbox 360
Square Enix has nothing in the works.
by Anoop Gantayat
June 5, 2007 - Looking for more Final Fantasy following the Xbox 360 port of Final Fantasy XI? Then you're going to have to look to a different next generation system. A Square Enix executive has disclosed to Japan's Nikkei BP that the company currently has no plans for Final Fantasy games on the 360.
Noting that the PS3 is getting Final Fantasy XIII, the website asked Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto if the Wii or Xbox 360 will also be getting games in the series. "For the Wii, we have FF Crystal Chronicles in production," replied Hashimoto. "As for FF on the Xbox 360, it's currently a completely blank page."
Strong words from Hashimoto, although perhaps if everyone goes out and buys Last Remnant (that includes you!), Square Enix will have a change of heart.
Posted: 2007-06-06 02:40am
by Stark
Man, I better go buy a PS3 to get all those awesome animated books!
Posted: 2007-06-06 03:05am
by Praxis
I'm curious if the installed PS3 user base will be enough for FF13 to sell as well as FF12 did.
If it sells badly, Square Enix might be forced to make a 360 port.
Posted: 2007-06-06 03:44am
by Covenant
Stark wrote:Man, I better go buy a PS3 to get all those awesome animated books!
But the story will be
so different! Aren't you dying to hear about young blond hero's struggle against evil leader's vile plots? About the complex romance between him and childhood friend/first quiet female? The gut-busting hilarity of token large character trading jabs with secretive loner special character?
And then, the secret twist--which I won't reveal, but I have to say, you'll never see it coming. It definately doesn't have to do with a hidden past, a lost lineage, or a secret bloodline.
Oh, it's going to be a
blast, Stark. And screw you for missing it. None of the other 12 will have anything on it.
Posted: 2007-06-06 03:53am
by Stark
You're so bitter.
PS, is your av the Wastelands box art?
Posted: 2007-06-06 04:32am
by Ford Prefect
What's ironic here is that
Final Fantasy XIII actually does look like it will be remarkably different to the other
Final Fantasy games.
The heroine is still blonde though.
Posted: 2007-06-06 04:52am
by Seggybop
I predict that XIII is probably going to be the worst-selling FF game yet, despite the shots so far looking very cool.
I have to say, at times like this I regret that none of my friends are particularly stupid-- if any of them had been dumb enough to drop the cash on PS3, I might get to play this game before 5 years are up.
Posted: 2007-06-06 05:03am
by Cao Cao
Their insistance on making two versions of FFXIII (because Nomura MUST have his bishounen hero) is going to torpedo sales right off the bat.
Few people are going to pony up for two games at once.
Posted: 2007-06-06 07:07am
by Manus Celer Dei
Covenant wrote:Stark wrote:Man, I better go buy a PS3 to get all those awesome animated books!
But the story will be
so different! Aren't you dying to hear about young blond hero's struggle against evil leader's vile plots? About the complex romance between him and childhood friend/first quiet female? The gut-busting hilarity of token large character trading jabs with secretive loner special character?
And then, the secret twist--which I won't reveal, but I have to say, you'll never see it coming. It definately doesn't have to do with a hidden past, a lost lineage, or a secret bloodline.
Oh, it's going to be a
blast, Stark. And screw you for missing it. None of the other 12 will have anything on it.
Oh come on, the FF games aren't
that formulaic.
I mean, that guy in FFVIII had BROWN hair!
BROWN!
Posted: 2007-06-06 09:07am
by Gaidin
Manus Celer Dei wrote:
I mean, that guy in FFVIII had BROWN hair!
BROWN!
And the villian! He was blonde!
Anybody remember the hair color of the bad guy in 9?
Posted: 2007-06-06 09:14am
by Ford Prefect
I think it was purple. I'm not sure, because his child-bearing hips kept freaking me out, so I would keep on turning away.
Posted: 2007-06-06 09:16am
by Cao Cao
"Are you saying you don't love me?"
Posted: 2007-06-06 03:58pm
by Praxis
That is a girl, right? That's a question I have to ask often when it comes to FF games.
Sadly, I have friends willing to buy a PS3 just for FF13. Ugh. Some don't have the money and will just have to wait, but they will eventually get one just for this one game.
And it's way worse in Japan. People forget the strength of the FF brand in Japan, it outsells EVERYTHING except Dragon Quest. It is probably the PS3's most important exclusive in Japan.
Posted: 2007-06-06 04:13pm
by Cao Cao
Praxis wrote:That is a girl, right? That's a question I have to ask often when it comes to FF games.
Apparently no...
And it's way worse in Japan. People forget the strength of the FF brand in Japan, it outsells EVERYTHING except Dragon Quest. It is probably the PS3's most important exclusive in Japan.
I'd say this is the reason for Square to say they have no plans for the 360 even when they might be - to avoid a shitstorm from Sony too early.
It's not the first time they've stuck a knife in the back of a major console developer because they were being retarded. Remember when FFVII shifted from Nintendo to Sony?
Posted: 2007-06-06 05:07pm
by Praxis
Wow.
That is not a man. That is either a woman or a hermaphrodite.
Posted: 2007-06-06 05:39pm
by General Zod
Praxis wrote:Wow.
That is not a man. That is either a woman or a hermaphrodite.
Incredibly common in Japanese art. I take it you don't watch much in the way of anime?
Posted: 2007-06-06 06:15pm
by Vendetta
To be fair, Kuja's a fairly extreme take on the whole idea. He wouldn't look out of place in Bangkok, for example.
Posted: 2007-06-06 11:04pm
by Ford Prefect
Vendetta wrote:To be fair, Kuja's a fairly extreme take on the whole idea. He wouldn't look out of place in Bangkok, for example.
Kuja really does look like a man who looks like a woman; as opposed to actually looking like a girl despite being male.
Posted: 2007-06-06 11:08pm
by Kuja
Posted: 2007-06-06 11:17pm
by Ford Prefect
I knew you'd get a kick out of that.
Posted: 2007-06-06 11:21pm
by Kuja
Doesn't take a rocket scientist.
Posted: 2007-06-06 11:38pm
by Pick
Aaah, glorious Japanese art styles
. I love Final Fantasy.
Posted: 2007-06-07 02:35pm
by Setzer
Dude looks like a lady. I knew there was a reason I could never take Kuja seriously.
Posted: 2007-06-07 03:27pm
by Vendetta
Setzer wrote:Dude looks like a lady. I knew there was a reason I could never take Kuja seriously.
There's not much to take seriously in a person whose reaction to his own incipient mortality is to blow up the world.
Posted: 2007-06-07 06:21pm
by LadyTevar
Cao Cao wrote:Praxis wrote:That is a girl, right? That's a question I have to ask often when it comes to FF games.
Apparently no...
In the Japanese Version, it's a girl. In America, they made her a guy
