Denagaki PS3 Final Fantasy XIII Interview

SasanovaS777 - 272 days 17 hours ago

when they say use 100% of ps3, it doesnt have to mean graphics...and it usually never means graphics...its behind the scenes that the ps3 shines...

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Danja - 272 days 17 hours ago

as we can see SE has falling in the technology area also so maybe they think they are utilizing the PS3 full power , based on there crappy Crystal Engine ..... because so far im really not impressed with what I have seen of FF13...plz to prove me wrong

or maybe they are doing damage control form now so ppl wont be disappointed by what they see in the demo so they are saying the final product will be X better...

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YungXclusive2K9 - 272 days 17 hours ago

I'm almost gonna call BS because if the 360 version is supposedly gonna be the same, there is no way possible that they are gonna use 100% if the 360 version will match it

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Giriath - 272 days 17 hours ago

Even the crappiest graphics can stress the Playstation 3 to its limits, what matters is how effective the programming is, and how much the result appeals to the consumer.

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beardpapa - 272 days 16 hours ago

Or maybe this is misinterpretation, like that one time when the media interviewed Kojima about MGS4, and they translated it as him saying the PS3 wasn't powerful enough for MGS4 and he was disappointed. But what he really meant was that he had wildly high expectations of the PS3 but in the end, there weren't enough resources for him to create a masterpiece of his vision.

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Xulap - 272 days 16 hours ago

Hm, it says "close to 100%".

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Masta_fro - 272 days 16 hours ago

getting a 100% on a spelling test (FFXIII) is not as impressive as getting an 80% on a cold-fusion plasma reacting solar powered rocket science exam (Uncharted2).

you know?

This is just Square Enix looking for attention.

I love me some FF, but you know, in my life, and i say this truthfully, i have never been as blown away by a games graphics and sheer technical excellence as i have been by Uncharted 2. And this is just by looking at screenshots.

Not even Heavy Rain, not even Killzone 2...(big killzone 2 fan)

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GUNS N SWORDS - 272 days 16 hours ago

ok, so this is where 360 goes 360 degrees and falls flat on it's ass right?

.......and if it doesn't that would mean that 360 is a pretty strong console right?

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aldesko - 272 days 16 hours ago

"Uncharted 2 looks 3 times better than FF lol "

Hm.. I'd say more like 2.5 times better

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Dragun619 - 272 days 16 hours ago

Honestly, I'll believe it when I see it.
And So far, the demo looks....i guess promising for 50% of PS3 power.

Iono about you guys but I've yet to see a retail PS3 game released by SquareEnix. Even the announced MultiPlatform Game, Last Remnant has yet to be released on the PS3 as well as the Developers for the game couldn't even say anything about the development of the PS3 version. And your telling me that Square Enix developers are able to utilize 100% of PS3's power. Yet to release a PS3 game but they can utilize 100% of PS3's power....

I have yet to hear a dev say that they were able to utilize 100% of PS3 power, at least not on their first try. For example, Uncharted, Amazing Graphics but it only used 30-40% of PS3's power. For their second try Uncharted 2, they have stated it will use 100% of PS3's power which is understandable as Naughty Dog pretty much has EXPERIENCE with the PS3.

Once again I'll believe it when i see it.

Uncharted 2 to use 100% PS3's power and Uncharted 1 used 30-40%
http://www.psu.com/Uncharte...
GDC: The Last Remnant PS3 and the Awkwardest Silence
http://blog.wired.com/games...

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lolol123 - 272 days 15 hours ago

theyre clearly lying. none of their games have ever used a consoles max. and how could they use 100% of ps3s power if they make it look the same on the 360? maybe he means disc space

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RememberThe357 - 272 days 15 hours ago

This is a multi-platform engine. It is built for PS3, 360 and PC. I find it hard to believe that they can take the full potential of the PS3 out of a multi-platform engine.

Even the Killzone 2 devs said that they'd be able to get more from the PS3 next time around.

I have no bought that this game will be both fun and beautiful, but what I take from that comment is that they will use nearly 100% of what the Crystal Engine can get out of the PS3.

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ajeben809 - 272 days 14 hours ago

Theres no limit on how much you can optimize the graphics, this is a dead argument. An argument for stupid comparisons where people can say "that is the best the ps3 can do" because apparently its using 100% of its power...

People are so stupid sometimes....

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CrazzyMan - 272 days 14 hours ago

"because so far im really not impressed with what I have seen of FF13...plz to prove me wrong"
Interviewer: How much of the PS3's powers do you think the game will utilize at the end?

Kitase: I think around 50% for the demo version.
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Maybe BECAUSE all what you have seen so far, is only 50% of PS3 power???

"I'm almost gonna call BS because if the 360 version is supposedly gonna be the same,"
Are you INSANE??? IF x360 CAN`T run in HD resolution x360 exclusive (so far) Star Ocean 4, it runs at 488p, just 8p over SD resolution, what makes you think, that it will run same as PS3 version of FFXIII?
Not to mention space issues and absence of HDD.
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And come on GUYS, KITASE and NOMURA are GOOD developers, they are not same sh1t as Square, they develop for PS3, and so far HASN`T dissapointed.
It`s all OTHER Square developer teams create some sh1t, BUT not them!

STOP hating these 2 good guys(and FFXIII games). If you want to hate, then hate Wada and Square.

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hay - 272 days 13 hours ago

True C-man. Kitase and Nomura are the "good guys". While it may use 100% of PS3's power it won't be even close to maxing it's capabilities. I also wonder how they want to achieve this. FFs never had any brilliant physics engine etc, characters and events were always pre-animated and most cutscenes were always pre-rendered. No varied dying animations for example, each enemy of the same type died in the same way. But still they can use it as brilliant LOD of environments, view distance, varied animations, maybe some real time spell effects engine, would be awesome.
And one feature I hope for sure is Japanese voiceovers in EU/US version of the game...

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Sarcasm - 272 days 13 hours ago

When a developer says a "percentage" it usually refers to the amount of resources it uses from the PS3.

100% from Killzone 2 is different than 100% than Wipeout HD.

It depends how they use the SPUs.

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SL1M DADDY - 272 days 12 hours ago

It is in reference to their proprietary Game Engine. Since everybody's engines work differently, some will look better than others despite how much power they claim to use.

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Alcon - 272 days 12 hours ago

I hate it when a developper says it utilises 100 percent of the power. You just know thats bull****. They should say that with their current knowledge, technology,... they utilise 100 percent; because those 100 percent might become 70 percent compared with what they could do in a few years. The games do get better (visualy, technically, ect) when time passes (just look at PS2, with GOW I&II, wich blew peoples mind, because no one thought it could do what it did with those games).
Furthermore, for Square Enix, this is the mjor (and first?) game they develop for the PS3, so you know, that when they'll work on that platform more, and develop it, the games will be better.
100 percent most of the time is not true. It's usualy 100 percent with what they can do at the moment, but you know they can do better, and use more power from the machine in more clever ways.

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CrazzyMan - 272 days 11 hours ago

FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX had one of the BEST visuals on PS1.

FFX, FFX-2, FFXII had one of the BEST visuals on PS2.

FFVII:CC, FF:Dissidia had one of the BEST visuals on PSP.

What`s wrong with FFXIII??? Why do you think, that the game won`t have one of the BEST visuals on PS3?

FFXIII is developed for PS3, and was developed with having ONLY PS3 in mind. Kitase(producer) even didn`t know, that FFXIII will be also released on x360.
FFXIII won`t be downgraded on PS3, because of x360.
JUST RTFM, google it!

p.s. And IF you afraid of multiplatform engine capabilities, it wasn`t multiplatform in firts place, more over, this engine is also for a Wii, i hope, nobody expects FFXIII level visuals on Wii? You shouldn`t expect that on x360 either, just looks at SO4 with it`s 488p and framerate problems.

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Shadow Flare - 272 days 11 hours ago

Around 100% of the ps3's power? I dunno. But i guess that means in comparison the 360 version is going to be compressed within an inch of it's life and look like garbage or it'll be on 7 discs. One for every day of the week baby

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commodore64 - 272 days 10 hours ago

It sounds to me that even when a highly respected Japanese developer says they will use 100% of the ps3's power, there will still be a large number of diehard ps3 fans that maintain that the ps3 has some *ueber-potential* that remains untapped, after it has been 100% tapped out.

grow up guys.

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heroicjanitor - 272 days 10 hours ago

So that later on they can say how impressed they were with the 360 when they port it. But needing 100% to run crap code could only need 50% for better code...

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xwabbit - 272 days 8 hours ago

This will be the first game from SE to come to the PS3 ? So im pretty sure they dont have the same experience at programing the PS3 like Naughty Dogg, So u doubt they are really using the full power of the PS3. If they decide to learn about the PS3 like they did with PS2 we will see much better quality games from SE. I dont see that happening tho sine they said moving to the 360 was a GREAT idea with i highly doubt since their games all together havent sold a million

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ZuperAmazingCooKie - 272 days 7 hours ago

Also, it's not how much you use, it's how you use it

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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 272 days 4 hours ago

they are just saying that so people buy it.

Since its multiplat, i doubt they will make use of the ps3 capabilities....just think of how piss poor the 360 version will be in comparison. If they did that they would pretty much alienate the 360 fanbase. they dont wanna lose the ps fans either, which is why they made such statement.

I doubt they will use 100% of the ps3.

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makotokam - 272 days 4 hours ago

what part of they're using 50% of the power in the demo do you not understand? if they're only using 50% in the demo, you think they'll be using more in anything before that?

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solidt12 - 272 days 4 hours ago

Your not gonna get 100% on Multi-platform games Unless you want to make the game look significantly different on each system and I don't see Square doing that.

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senerock - 272 days 3 hours ago

360 + disk space = ps3

i believe the multitudes of multi-plat games this generation, will acutally prove to all fanboys that their consoles are actually the same thing.

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xboxlj - 272 days 3 hours ago

What makes so many fanboys think one machine is so much more powerful than the other? I've seen comments from people mentioning that they feel sorry for 360 owners. Every game I have played has been better on the 360, so I only get 360 games. I have 5 PS3 games and compared to over 20 360 games. I play the 360 game routinely, my PS3 has been collecting dust since I beat MGS4 last year.
Honestly, I feel both machines are on equal grounds with their capabilities. The main problem seems to be that the PS3 is harder to program on. But to assume that a game which utilizes most of the ps3 resources cannot run on the 360 is absurd. We are not comparing an i7-920 quad core (ps3) to 386 w/math co-processor (360) which is what some of you seem to think.

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FrankenLife - 272 days 3 hours ago

"Snow is wearing a cloth that you have the wrong idea, not everyone is a knit cap, bandanna or rather close to DYURAGU"

I love google translate.

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phosphor112 - 271 days 23 hours ago

You can NEVER EVER use 100% of any hardware. It's impossible to do that safely. That leaves no room for error, meaning, if something messed up, and it caused something to hitch just a little too much, the whole system would completely crash. Ever notice your CPU processes being 100% use? Next thing you know, everything freezes up? That's what happens.

Also, 100% maybe in term of their game engine, because other games on the ps3 have yielded better results (so far from what we've seen) and barely use half of the PS3's hardware. Keep in mind, these engines have been made very early in the PS3's life span. If you remember games like Shadow of the Colossus and God of War 1 & 2 was on par (and in some cases exceeded) the orignal Xbox's graphics, even with much older technology. The more complex the architecture, the more you can tap into it. It's just the harder it is to program.

SE is just saying it for attention. It's not going to use 100%, if it is, it will either be a) the most epic game ever, or b) crappy programmers. On my C++ program for school I'm making a 2D physics engine. When I first finished it, It used about 8mb of RAM (which is a bloody hell of a lot), after I optimized threads and fixed lots of pointers, making arrays, that cut down my memory usage down to about 1200kb (1.2mb) when running 50 entities (objects) on screen at once.

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XxZxX - 271 days 23 hours ago

that's just pure marketing scheme.

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Monsignor - 272 days 16 hours ago

This would make sense if it was made on the 360 and then ported over, but games that are individually designed for each system, tend to turn out better for the PS3.

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Common Sense - 272 days 16 hours ago

because to my knowledge, the crystal tools engine was only supposed to utilize 4 out of 6 SPEs so there's no way they're getting close to 100% and then again a lot of information could be lost in translation or maybe it was just taken out of context.

You guys do also realize that you can max out CPU with 1 line of code (hint: infinte loops, ex. for (;), while (1=1)).

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SIdepocket - 272 days 7 hours ago

@SasanovaS777

the third option is that like all multiplatform games, FF13 might turn out better on the 360 because no one has yet pushed the 360 to its limits

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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 272 days 4 hours ago

i dont know who would disagree with you, bu im certain those 5 disagrees dont own ps3s

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IcarusOne - 272 days 3 hours ago

1. How does Final Fantasy of all games use the PS3 to its max? These games barely even have phsyics. And from what I've seen, the graphics aren't mind-bending. So what could be going on in the background? Twice the grass as Flower?

2. If FF does use 100% of the PS3, and the game is also coming out for 360, the fact that the two versions will be at all similar shoots a massive whole in the theory that the PS3 is lightyears ahead of the 360.

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senerock - 271 days 22 hours ago

how biased can you be?
what you are saying is:
either he agrees that the ps3 is the best machine EVA!!!!!
or
whatever he has to say is a lie!!!

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talltony - 272 days 9 hours ago

5 dvd for 360. John carmack said that microsoft would only fund 2 discs for their rage game. But I could see some loss of quality because of the lack of bluray on 360. You see how bluray is becoming a necessity for these big next gen games now.

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-PINNER- - 272 days 3 hours ago

Not only will it be on 5 disc's for 360, you will need to buy two copies of the game, because it will take two 360's to play it. lol.

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Wiimaniac - 266 days 10 hours ago

Isn't Rage a 4 hour generic FPS? You can't compare a game like Rage to an Jrpg full of FMV(yeah even in this days Square still depends on FMV and these are hard to compress), mini quests, text and a hell of a lot of voice over...

I don't even know how this guy got 2 agrees with this stupid comment. Seriously, is N4G just full of morons these days?

BTW, how could it have a loss of quality for not having blu-ray? The game will look the same because that's just some media storage, the disc doesn't make things look better. Then only thing this limited space could cause it's to have less content within the game, something that could be fix with DLC for the X360.

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PoSTedUP - 272 days 15 hours ago

yea i doubt it too : /

kojima said that he got all he could out of the ps3... and look what came out a year later.. KillZone2 : /

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Theoneneo81 - 272 days 16 hours ago

i think the bots will get a very dumbed down version of this game. i really cant see this being on 1 or two dvds with out loosing some kinda graphic performance when your comparing to being on the ps3 and Blu Ray

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Hellsvacancy - 272 days 11 hours ago

Shaddap ya friggin moron and take your head out of Ms's arse besides where exactly did it say it was gonna only use 60% of the 360s power, youll end up puttin FF in2 your 360 and itll explode

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commodore64 - 272 days 10 hours ago

yeah foxgod, you beat me to it.

It will be funny when the developer states it uses 100% of the ps3 power, but exhibits the familiar ps3 vaseline blur, ps3 framerate problems and general inferiority of ps3 multiplats which, curiously, don't appear quite so often on the 360, which was, curiously, according to ps3 fans, maxed out long ago.

:)

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solidjun5 - 272 days 10 hours ago

FOX and Commodore (two of the biggest 360 enthusiasts) on the same comment thread? Oh my, truly a special day.

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talltony - 272 days 9 hours ago

your so smart. Considering that they said the 360 version of red faction guerilla was maxed out on the 360 but they didnt say anything about the ps3 version. Yea the ps3 is maxed out alright, I can think of tons of games on 360 that look better than killzone 2 but i cant seem to name them ...hmmmmmm.....

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brycespitler - 272 days 6 hours ago

it very well could be. they way they prgrammed it, it might just take 100 percent.

also u gotta remember SE said that they are working fully on the ps3 version doing the best they can with it and THEN port what they can to the 360.

ps3 will have better quality...SE said it themselves...which is why the 100% doesnt seem so crazy

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DNAgent - 272 days 3 hours ago

S-E saying it themselves is what makes this an obvious lie. All S-E does is lie and that's all they've done this gen. This is obviously one of their April Fools jokes.

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infamous-butcher - 272 days ago

It all went down hill when square soft merged with enix. look at FFX then look at FFX2.

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ULTIMATE_REVENGE - 272 days 3 hours ago

even ND siad that they're going to use 100% of the PS3's power and so far they've only used about 50% and Uncharted already looks better then the FF13 gameplay that was released in that trailer, the day i saw it i was very disapointed

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