Square Enix Confirms FFXIII SERIES (!) Is Not Exclusive for PS3 *Read post #12

[dobwal]

http://www.ps3center.net/story-394.html

Seems to be lacking a source, which obviously makes me takes this with a grain of salt.

 

[Bobbler]

Not really all that big of news...

The main (real) FF13 is PS3 exclusive and another one of the spinoffs is as well... it's the haeresis game that is apparently not a PS3 game. Not that big of a surprise, considering they already said they were going to make a half dozen spinoffs on several different platforms.

 

[nintenho]

Final Fantasy 13 not exclusive. *FALSE REPORT.

http://ps3center.net/story-394.html?PHPSESSID=53792ca5d665bec2095e6e392d9292b6

Motomu Toriyama of Square Enix has come out and made the confirmation that other consoles will be receiving Final Fantasy XIII on top of the PlayStation 3.

 

[Bobbler]

The main (real) FF13 is PS3 exclusive and another one of the spinoffs is as well... it's the haeresis game that is apparently not a PS3 game. Not that big of a surprise, considering they already said they were going to make a half dozen spinoffs on several different platforms. The Fabula Nova Crystallis FFXIII is a franchise (similar to what FF7 turned into -- main game, spinoff, movie, etc.) and it is not exclusive to any one system... specific games in it are.

It sounds like the PS3center guys are misinterpreting things...

 

[Inane_Dork]

The question is whether they will go after the biggest userbase on the DS, keep the game's technical abilities constant on the X360 or do the up-and-coming thing with the Wii. Or, of course, they may do more than one of those.

Or this may just be a misreport.

 

[nintenho]

did they say the main game is exclusive?

 

[Bobbler]

The question is whether they will go after the biggest userbase on the DS, keep the game's technical abilities constant on the X360 or do the up-and-coming thing with the Wii. Or, of course, they may do more than one of those.

Or this may just be a misreport.

Well, apparently there are 3 more FFXIII franchise titles, including haeresis. It could be DS, Wii, and 360 all get one... who knows.

 

[PatrickL]

President of Sony france said in march that FF 13 exclusivity was under discussion. Do we have more official fresh news ?

 

[djskribbles]

false rumor.

 

[PatrickL]

What part is false ?

 

[woundingchaney]

What part is false ?

From what I can tell the FFXIII part. While Square is making "spin-offs" of the title there is no definitive evidence that FF13 itself is going to other consoles besides teh PS3 (I dont particularly expect it either).

 

[StefanS]

That's a complete false report.

From Gamefront
Motomu Toriyama of SE has said in an interview with the Australian Playstation Magazine that the series Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII wouldn't be exclsuive to Playstation 3 and Handy and that there would be more than the announced 3 titles: Final Fantasy Agito XIII (Handy), Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) and Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PS3).


Basically he confirmed more spin-offs and that some titles will land on other platforms which is hardly surprising.

 

[djskribbles]

What part is false ?

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=89807

 

[DieH@rd]

Ok so far, we have:
PS3 - 2 games
Mobile - 1 game
Multi - unannounced

I wonder will they make some Dirge of Cerberus wanabee for FFXIII

 

[Rolf N]

Seems to be lacking a source

Here's your source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151298
Some dude misreading a news blurb from Gamefront.de, posting it on an English-language forum and causing lots of confusion.

The blurb itself isn't even news. It has pretty much always been known that FF XIII will have millions of spin-offs and that every system will get some of them.
They are now pitching it as breaking news that the series known as FF XIII Fabula Nova Crystalis will consist of more than three games (main for PS3, Versus for PS3, Agito for phones).

 

[chris1515]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=24297

New interview of Square Enix Hiromi Tanaka VP of sotware development and Sage Bundi global online producer. They say different title for different platform except for cross platform MMORPG of SE.

Citation:What's your opinion of the next-gen consoles? It seems that PS3 is doing well in Japan, but Xbox 360 hasn't really taken off despite the release of games like Blue Dragon. Will Square Enix be supporting the platforms equally, or will you focus on PS3 if it proves to be more successful?

Hiromichi Tanaka: Up to PlayStation 2, all consoles had roughly the same concept of how to enjoy the gaming experience. With next-gen, each has different features and is targeted at a different audience.So, we have to make different titles for different platforms, depending on what sort of game we want to make and what the users will be expecting; we can choose which platform we want to go for. This is completely different from the old games industry.

Also we now have Vista and the Nintendo DS, so it's not only those three next-gen platforms but a whole variety of different platforms. It's hard having this variety but it also gives us lots of opportunities.

Sage Sundi: Online games might be slightly different. Players can have so many different options - FFXI is a cross-platform online game so you can play from 360 or PS2 in Japan and also Windows. So for our next MMO, we'll also consider this cross platform feature. Regardless of the platform they're playing on, for online games, it might be pure content which attracts the player.

They talk about the E3 2005 360 MMORPG, it woll probably be muliplatform:

What plans do you have for the MMO market?

Sage Sundi: Well, Final Fantasy XI has been out for nearly for five years now, so with online games one of our targets is to continuously provide content as long as we have users. But we're also working on the new MMO titles which we announced at E3 two years ago.

 

[Arwin]

Some forums have a ban on FFXIII not being exclusive for PS3 topics ... I can't imagine why ...

 

[deepbrown]

The reason is, is because the articles that have posted the news have construed it into FFXIII not being exclusive, which is crazy. Nowhere in the interview does it say that.

FFXIII and Versus are exclusive.

FFXIII Heriasis is an MMO that will appear on the PC, 360 and PS3.

 

[scooby_dooby]

So, we have to make different titles for different platforms, depending on what sort of game we want to make and what the users will be expecting;

I see SE is still clinging to the idiotic belief that 360's userbase is one monolithic entity that only likes shooters and online games.

Someone should tell them no, you don't actually have to make different games for the two different consoles. 4million xbox users are not even connected to the internet, and the majority of the total userbase are not subscribing to live gold.

 

[Nesh]

I see SE is still clinging to the idiotic belief that 360's userbase is one monolithic entity that only likes shooters and online games.

Someone should tell them no, you don't actually have to make different games for the two different consoles. 4million xbox users are not even connected to the internet, and the majority of the total userbase are not subscribing to live gold.

Dont be angry Scooby