Final Fantasy Versus XIII

[stealth20k]

@kazung
http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/05/13/ps3-v ... 60-only-1/

In a recent Q&A with IGN, FFXIII producer Yoshinori Kitase explained that without the kind of memory available on Blu-ray, there’s simply not enough room on the 360 to implement two vocal tracks. He added, “Are there many people who would like to play with Japanese voices?”

And in the end it never happened to make the multiplat thing work.

They cut out a full games worth of content. Thats exactly what hey said. Why do you think the content had to be cut? Theres a recurring theme there.

Link? Because I believe he said that only for 13-2. Not versus

[kazunga]

@kazung
http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/05/13/ps3-v ... 60-only-1/

In a recent Q&A with IGN, FFXIII producer Yoshinori Kitase explained that without the kind of memory available on Blu-ray, there’s simply not enough room on the 360 to implement two vocal tracks. He added, “Are there many people who would like to play with Japanese voices?”

And in the end it never happened to make the multiplat thing work.

They cut out a full games worth of content. Thats exactly what hey said. Why do you think the content had to be cut? Theres a recurring theme there.

Link? Because I believe he said that only for 13-2. Not versus

Okay you got me on that one.

Yes. They cut a full games worth of content. But never did they say because of the 360. They said because of Volume and this content was removed at different stages of development. That is fact. That is a normal development thing. This Rejected Content will never come up again. It is not because of the 360.

I'm searching. He said this in 2008ish, but I'm fairly certain as press on Neogaf and such mention it from time to time anyway.

[kazunga]

There wasn’t all this other stuff that we wanted to include but had to cut. It was more of a selective process you’d find in any development process, where there were a lot of ideas but then we chose the best of those to include in the final game. The things that were cut either didn’t make sense in the storyline, would slow down the pace of the game or were otherwise unnecessary.

There is no plan for these things that were cut — because they weren’t essential to the game — to be revived as downloadable content,

And that is a major fact.

[stealth20k]

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/13/squar ... ntasy-xii/

"This is all more impressive when you consider that Square Enix is expecting to need three DVDs to hold everything that's still in the Xbox 360 version of the game"

[kazunga]

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/13/square-enix-cut-a-games-worth-of-content-from-final-fantasy-xii/

"This is all more impressive when you consider that Square Enix is expecting to need three DVDs to hold everything that's still in the Xbox 360 version of the game"

What? you quoted the writer of the article? they mention what was cut not cause of the 360.

[stealth20k]

I added that because at the time there was doubt about why the content was cut.

[kazunga]

Ahh I see~

[SinZinDetta]

It would be stupid for Square to not grow the brand by not putting it on 360. I'm buying

Putting it on the 360 isnt growing the brand. Its selling it out and in some ways making negative compromises.

You call 2 million plus 360 sales not growing the brand? I do not think there is more then 2,000,000 deranged Sony fanboys sitting around with there "360 fault FF XIII sux" conspiracy theories. I would guess maybe 20,000 of those morons.

[kazunga]

It was not cause of the 360. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/3064 ... y_XIII.php This is why XIII "sucked". At least in other peoples opinions.

[Harryhood]

If you want to play HD JRPGs, then buy a PS3. The PS3 is the natural place for jrpgs since they sell quite well on the system in Japan.

[stealth20k]

It would be stupid for Square to not grow the brand by not putting it on 360. I'm buying

Putting it on the 360 isnt growing the brand. Its selling it out and in some ways making negative compromises.

You call 2 million plus 360 sales not growing the brand? I do not think there is more then 2,000,000 deranged Sony fanboys sitting around with there "360 fault FF XIII sux" conspiracy theories. I would guess maybe 20,000 of those morons.

And when you consider those 2 million copies were barely what was sold on the ps3 The best thing they could do is market more to people who own ps3's

[SinZinDetta]

Yeah because the brand needed to be grown on 360. Look at Bioware when they finally went to PS3 with Dragon Age. About the same difference because Bioware already grew the rep on Xbox where it was new to PS3. Same with Final Fantasy.

And I bet Square is very glad they got those extra 2 million plus sales. I am sure it helped them financially where if it was a PS3 exclusive they would be in some trouble because they would of not made as much money leading to...

[stealth20k]

Not if those 2 million sales didnt break the costs of producing on the 360. And I am sure they made all the money they needed on the ps3 considering because of the ps3 it was the fastest selling FF ever

And Nothing is helping them financially right now. Individual game sales make little dent

[Venus]

If you want to play HD JRPGs, then buy a PS3. The PS3 is the natural place for jrpgs since they sell quite well on the system in Japan.

Exactly. Because Japanese games belong on Japanese consoles.

[vampko]

If you want to play HD JRPGs, then buy a PS3. The PS3 is the natural place for jrpgs since they sell quite well on the system in Japan.

Exactly. Because Japanese games belong on Japanese consoles.

I'm glad you understand