Vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and president of SCE France, Georges Fornay, is quoted making the following statement:
Translation:
"The development cost of games have exploded, it becomes difficult to have exclusiveness, except our own games. But we will have as of launching 30 games, including Motorstorm, Resistance or Virtua Fighter. Moreover, we await 200 games from here the end of 2007. Lastly, for Final Fantasy XIII, I can say to you that exclusiveness is under discussion."
FULL ARTICLE TRANSLATION THROUGH BABELFISH:
Vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and president of SCE France, Georges Fornay is convinced that the PS3 has beautiful days in front of it. Particularly on the French ground.
DNA: How announces itself the launch of the PS3?
G.F. : For France, the meters are at the green. We recorded not far of 60 000 reservations against 40 000 Xbox 360 and 75 000 sold Wii at the time of the respective launch of these consoles. Those that said that the console is too dear some are for their expenses: in France, the PS3, this already is a success. And we count to avoid the scarcity phenomena: we will put on the European a million market PS3, of which more than 150 000 in France.
- One says that this console is sold at a loss by Sony. This is a reality?
- Yes. The amount official do not lie: we will lose 2 billion Euros at the world-wide level this year. But one accepts that, because this is a wager on the future, we count to earn money on the games and the incidental ones. We had lost 500 million Euros, already, at the time of the launch of the PS2.
- Sony removed on the European version of the PS3 the chipset allowing the rétrocompatibilité with the games PS2 and the replaced by an emulation software that will not read all the older games. A reaction?
- Attention, it will be not a matter not any a total and final incompatibility. We will post on-line a site where the compatible games will be listed. Now, if you wonder me if this is a bad blow for the launch, I would say that one more better would have done to be sure than the console would be totally rétrocompatible before to announce it. But good, when the PS3 will have showed its capacities, the players will not have anymore too envies to play PS2..
- Remains that you arrive on the market after the competition, and that it will be necessary to convince, quickly. You can count on strong games, exclusivity rights? And quid of Final Fantasy XIII?
- The development cost of the games exploded, it becomes difficult to have exclusivity rights, except our clean games. But we will have as early as the launch 30 games, of which Motorstorm, Resistance or Virtua Fighter. What's more, we await 200 games of here at the end of 2007. At last, for Final Fantasy XIII, I can say you that the exclusivity rights is in discussion.
- HAS it arrived, this is a good year that announces itself for SCE?
- This that is sure, for us, this is that 2007 will be a year record while combining the sales PSP, PS2 and PS3. And that should continue to progress. The last year, the market of the video game climbed of 15% while the music and the video lowered. According to our estimations, the market vidéoludique should double between 2005 and 2010. That wants to say that there is place for three... even if it is worth always better to go shopping in head.
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FFXIII is actually one of the best Final Fantasy games.
I also sort of was disappointed at the time, never as much as the bandwagon. But really all the fantastic 3D rendered cutscenes and I actually liked the characters and the story though convoluted was actually fantastic and the ending was extremely emotional. So much budget and time were put into that game Square had such big plans, I actually have always felt kind of bad for how things played out.
I have been thinking for years how great it would be to get all three games on one disk for PS4 or 5.
Gotta take off the nostalgia glasses. It's the worst FF. Shiva as a bike, I mean come on.
Shiva as a bike is strange but saying FFXIII is the worst FF is not at all a fact, that's simply your opinion.
When I got my series X a year ago, I bought FF13 for nostalgia reasons but ended up being disappointed. When I first played it around the time it launched, I didn't have a lot of experience with final fantasy games, so I enjoyed it. Fast forward to when I played it again, I found that the game had many unnecessary filler moments instead of just giving us meaningful content.
The game is also very linear and a quote on the article said it best. "It is like a sewage pipe that leads to the ocean until it opens up on Grand Pulse."
The story didn't make much sense either and I believe it is my mistake as I played the FF7 remake on PS5 prior which is a night and day difference in terms of pacing, storytelling and likeable characters even though cloud is aloof.
Probably was a mistake to play any of the golden era FFs first (e.g. FF6 through FF10), it makes it harder to enjoy some of the FFs that aren't as good. I think FF12 was where major issues with the series started becoming apparent, and it just got worse from there.
I didn't really care for it that much, the only saving grace was that it had a better story than 15 (overall it was better than 15) and possibly 12, and even then, you had to read some of it through primers, like reading a book. Plus the battle system was reasonably fun for what it was, even if it was more the spectacle that was exciting for me (e.g. summoning). And to be fair, the 13 trilogy got better with every games, I still don't like Snow though.
Ff13 is only good if you haven't played a ff before, or any other games that are decent for that matter.
It is in fact no way the best Final Fantasy game, it's one of the worst
Linear corridors, Cutscene, Fight, Cutscene...rinse and repeat
Dialogue and characters are pretty bad, especially Lightning as the main FF hero, they literally said they tried to make a "Female Cloud" and they failed.
Story was pretty awful
I could go on
I think the only alright thing that came from the game was the music.
That's not a fact that's your personal opinion. The game sold 11 million copies between its 2009 release up until 2014 including critically reviewed as an 8 out of 10 or an 80 out of 100. The game does have some issues but it's not at all a fact as one of the worst FF games.
i liked the game alot but i didnt like how they handled the terminology.
i dont mind reading data logs but it had soo many.
but i always loved the music and how it looked. the battle system wasnt too bad either.
but i like 13-2 more :)
i still dont understand why we never got a remaster of the trilogy
Xbox kinda did. Besides the video files of course which are still best on PS3 due to bluray.
XIII is a pretty solid game, but XIII-2 is WAY better. XIII-2 was one of the few games I decided to go for a Platinum trophy in, early on. Had so much fun the entire way through getting it too!
I hated this to when it released. I haven't much liked a ff game since ff10 as much , aside from ff7remake. I decided to give it another shot on my series x since it's not on a current ps and was liking it quite a bit(just takes me some time to get over things ) until star ocean 2 remake came out I was all over that.
Square should definitely remaster it or something for ps4 ps5
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I can't read French. So...while I would love to read this article..I can't. :( Any chance you can get a translated english version for this site?
All I know is that Sony desperately needs FFXIII/Versus to stay exclusive and they have to do anything they can to keep it that way. PS3+Price Drop+FFXIII will sell them systems, no question.
If MS snags this, it'd be devastating to Sony. 360 will be way cheaper and people would buy it just to play the next-gen FinalFantasy.
Sony really needs more games and it really is not funny at all.
I own both the 360 and PS3 but I am wishing more and more that I never got a PS3.
So Sony bring out new IPs and more games and make them only for the PS3.
Sony will have to 1up Microsoft on this or it will be all over.
I do hope SCEI is competent enough to realize that MSG4 and FF series is their no.1 exclusive. If they seriously think it doesn't matter to them then I do have nothing to say. Look at nintendo, we dont need final fantasy VII and look what happen. Don't want to cast doubt on them but this is a scary thought.
the headline is a joke. lol, twisting facts is the only thing xbots can.