Fake: Wii Colors, Animals in Mario Kart, Star Ocean 4 Goes Multiplatform

Rumors allegedly sourced from the latest issue of weekly Famitsu magazine claims five new Wii colors will launch alongside with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii will feature an 8-multiplayer mode and animal riders, and Star Ocean 4 - previously announced as a PS3 exclusive - will release on the Xbox 360 as well

Kotaku and Advanced Media Network have updates: the source of these rumor, a 2ch message board poster known as "Syobonta" aka "Syobo Online", has admitted that his Famitsu information was faked. The rumors were apparently some sort of joke amongst NeoGAF forum members.

[Brian5247]

LOL!!!

[TANOD]

why would SE bring SO4 on a platform which doesnt exist in Japan

[ruibing]

This is why forum should never count as news unless they are backed up by a reputable source. And even in those cases, we should just link it to the source.

[Skerj]

I could swear what you just said were in the news guidelines (unless it's from a developer or media) and was part of the test to become a contributor yet I see it rampant lately.

[TANOD]

SO4 on x360 in Japan!!!!

lol

[Laexerias]

Its funny, isnt it?

[chrno6]

Eariler 360 fanboys were celebrating the loss of a ps3 exclusive that most of them don't even care about. Owned.

[TANOD]

lol

I knew it was false since SE cant bring SO4 --a high budget game on x360 which doesnt do well except Na.

However SO doesnt sell well in Na. so why would SE risk losing millions on producing the x360 version

[DrPirate]

What? so it WASN'T Ps3 fans trying to sweep bad Sony news "under the rug"

Yeah, for shame on that last article.

[Skerj]

April Fools!!

[tanakasan]

Japanese people were looking at you, laughing. HAHAHA

[TANOD]

beat me to it

[titntin]

It was well documented that these stories were faked - or at best, exremely unreliable.

But there's no point in anyone crowing about 'told you so Xbots'.
SO4 has never been touted as a PS3 exclusive, so when the platforms for it are announced, it may well recieve a 360 version. Given the popularity of the title, and the strength of PS3 in its own region, its a fairly safe bet that PS3 will recieve it. But bear in mind that Square are very interested in improving its global trading, so the home market is not the only one it will consider.
I love both these machines, so I'll buy it on PS3 as multi discs are silly to me, but I've no objection to 360 gamers getting an opportunity to play this great series. If you take the 'Bots' out of the equation, we are all gamers, and we should all get a chance to play the best games...

[UnblessedSoul]

That's why I said it's all rumours and the xbots looked stupid which they now do

[rukusa]

Err, SO4 was never announced as a PS3 exclusive. People were hopeing for it, but there's yet to be any confirmation.

Who thought SO4 was PS3 has to get their head checked lol.

[TANOD]

SO4 is not coming to x360

the rumours of SO4 going multi which sprang from Kotaku are false

[chrno6]

The previous titles were on ps2, so it would only be logical that the following will be on the ps3, if not the wii, which is impossible since the wii is not capable of handling fancy grahpic.
360 fans don't like jprg, as evidenced by the horrible sales of blue dragon in NA, so I doubt So4 will see the light on that console. Of course it is still possible but it is highly unlikely.

[vaan]

Where are you losers?

[midgard229]

i knew i remembered Square saying it was going to be exclusive to one of the next gen systems (duh ps3) ops im talkin bout star ocean 4,

besides anyone who played a star ocean game knows that star oceans are HUGE!, and can get 150 hours easy with all the side quest and alchemy, weapon, armor, item, accesory, etc creations, character recruitment, 5+ endings, different private actions, different characters to get thru a playthru, moves, realtime action packed combat, etc, so much in the game that star ocean has always been multi disk.
if it was on 360 it wud be 6-8 disks long, where-as blue ray, maaaybe 1 or 2, maaaaybe, 80 gigs is alot for a disk to fill lol

[Killjoy3000]

i seriously doubt it would exceed 50 gigs no matter how huge the game was.

[Killjoy3000]

very funny how the bots go on and on about something that just isnt true.

[Killjoy3000]

cmon MART and Zhuk, come out of your little troll caves you bastards!!!

[Darkiewonder]

So it takes kotaku to make you people realize it was fake even thought It was said long ago it was fake? ;o

[gtgcoolkid]

Star Ocean on 360 my butt.