Rumor Killers: Kinect Costs $150, 3DS 3D Video Chat, and FF Versus XIII on 360

The biggest questions of the week following E3 surround peripheral pricing, kids getting in on video chats, and of course the battle for FF exclusivity.

[stonecold1]

never be on xbox 360 and it cant be done because nomura is going further with the graphics and the 360 cant handle unless its going to be watered down and i dont think nomura will be happy end statement

[AAACE5]

OK, i'll play along! FFXIII should stay exclusive to Ps3 because they would have to cut it down to fit on the 360... Did I say it right fanboys?

Got a surprise for you... I gotta make you feel insecure again!

THE TROJAN HORSE(s)

The new 360 is kinda like a trojan horse! MS put that wireless N in place for a reason, and that was so you can download bigger files in quicker times!

Ps3 owners are used to leaving their console turned on to download stuff. But the 360 has low power mode. Meaning you click all the stuff you want to download, turn your system off and go to bed or work or whatever you want to do. When you turn it on, all of your stuff is downloaded!

They put that 250 Gb HDD in there for a reason. It's been known for a while that MS wants to move to more digitally distributed sales. They have been testing this out with their games on demand service. They will eventually release new games on this service in order to beat "On Live" to the punch!

Several developers have stated that the Ps3 and 360 are similar in power! The Ps3's main advantage is it's blu-ray capacity! Downloading to the HDD can eliminate this problem and take away the extra time to port it.

Do you remember, SE didn't really show us a lot of FFXIII at first? Then after it was announced for 360, all kinds of stuff started being shown! This could be a sign. SE hasn't shown a whole lot of Versus!

Just kidding! I doubt that they are anywhere near ready to take on a game that big as a download. More than likely, it won't come to 360! I just had to get some of you guys nervous! Now hopefully we can leave this alone!

I wonder how many people will hit disagree before they realize I was joking? Hell, they'll probably try taking my bubbles as well... have a heart people!

[Gene]

They have shown screenshots and it says ps3 on them so how do you confirm it's going to the 360 do you have screenshots no did the developer ever talk about the 360 no is the engine different from 13 yes.
The stuff that nomura said that are in the game has never been done before I can see why 360 owners want this game bad.

[eggbert]

more speculation articles. Though they might tout themselves as rumorkillers, these are just speculations.

[Newtype]

XIV is the start of it.

[Rashonality]

no honey
FFXI was even before XIII on the 360 so it's not a surprise to see XIV on the 360

[jneul]

there was a recent article that said SE could not come to an agreement over the whole xlive issue and the fact that MS want to keep it closed on their side, so SE is not bringing it to x360 sorry, wheras psn is open benfits to having ps3 are showing up now.

[Nike]

From the article: "Final Fantasy Versus XIII going to 360? Uhhhh...maybe? xD"

Nice way to answer. :P

[ps3rider]

you know what.

they know its not comming but they still wanted to say maybe hehehe

[Gene]

I don't understand where is the proof that it's going to 360. I only see ps3 version in screenshots no 360 screenshots and xbox never came out of nomura mouth everytime he talks about the game ???

Oh fanboys I get it.

[yogaflame]

because Sony does not make deals or give money to Square can go anytime they want especially wada is so hungry for money

[OpenGL]

Based on the 3DS showed at E3, video chat will not be possible in 3D unless using the back camera. The current model only has 1 camera facing the user.

[JD_Shadow]

From what I have seen about Wada wanting all future SE games to have an online component coupled with how they have felt lately about XBL being so closed with MS in no mood to budge on their position anytime soon, if MS does want Versus (which, at this point, I don't see why they should continue to try to get every third party exclusive Sony ever has; focus on first party), then their draconian online ways to devs is going to be yet another roadblock.

Again, my viewpoint is that why not just make an exclusive FF 360 franchise like they did for Nintendo? Problem solved! Not sure why that's so hard.

[Newtype]

Nintendo is the special case, since they are what originated FF and all of their original titles.

[wissam]

If ffv13 going to x360. they should have announced it in E3.but no one knows.

[Rashonality]

Kinect 150$ = old rumor and rumor "although i believe it"
3DS = How ? the cameras are on the back how can you video chat if you can't see each other
FFvXII = hard to tell but it's more of 70% chance no

[jneul]

1. lol kinect has been confirmed to cost around $140 to make, you hestly trhink they are going to start selling it for a loss, and please remember this is a compny that insists you buy their branded HDD's which are extortion compared to every day HDD's.
2. the way nomura is talking about FF vs it sound like a ps3 exclusive, and to be honest if wada back stab's him then expect huge downgrades and nomura will leave, but wada is not stupid enough to do this as nomura is i charge of quite alot of the 3DS projects, he would be essentially killing off SE if this happened, as nomura games like KH:BBS are the only dencent games to actually come from SE recently.
3. don't know about the 3DS video chat, but surely people will be buying it for the games....

[Prcko]

kinect won't be 100$ for sure