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5 reasons why Final Fantasy on the 360 wont be A PS3 Killer.

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"Final Fantasy 13 was the biggest moment of what turned out to be a damn squib of an E3, but even this could turn out to be over-shadowed by events Square can't control, Minimum Wage Gamer has tasked their best investigator to find out 5 reasons why Final Fantasy on the 360 wont be A PS3 Killer. So Click the link below ,grab a beer or your respective drink and get ready for Minimum Wage Gamers (www.mwgamer.com) 5 reasons why Final Fantasy on the 360 wont be A PS3 Killer."
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Published: 527 days ago | Article | E3 2008 | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Gaming
 
 

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Sega Saturn - 527 days 1 hour ago
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5.Final Fantasy WON’T be released on the xBox 360 in Japan.
So what? Even if released it would do nothing for the 360. There is a reason the 360 doesn't sell and it has nothing to do with hardware or software.

4.Final Fantasy 11 was on the 360.
And? How does this effect sales. People didn't buy it because it was a crappy port of a crappy PS2 MMORPG.

3.Final Fantasy 7 – Will History strike twice? No
The industry has changed in 11 years. Did you not know that?

2.Blu-Ray
Not needed for gaming as Mass Effect, Fable 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc have proved. These games are bigger than any playstation 'exclusive' available now.

1.Spin-Off’s and DLC.
I should point out that DLC doesn't really work for a linear story driven RPG.
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KnaveX - 527 days ago
1.1 - Its Ok
No need to make yourself feel secure.
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ConanOBrien - 527 days ago
1.2 - Well..
PS3 developers make me feel horny.. mmm yummy


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Bubble Buddy - 527 days ago
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The big reason is that it won't be released in Japan.

and Sega Saturn: All of the games you mentioned are RPGS. So no shin genius they're all long.
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dude_uk - 527 days ago
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sorry mate...your points don't make sense

"1.Spin-Off’s and DLC.
I should point out that DLC doesn't really work for a linear story driven RPG."
WHAT!!!???
then why were 360 fanboys braging about DLC for GTAIV???

"2.Blu-Ray
Not needed for gaming as Mass Effect, Fable 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc have proved. These games are bigger than any playstation 'exclusive' available now."

DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MANY CGS THIS GAME HAS?!?!?!?!
I mean I'd love to watch High Quality videos with Uncompressed sound
but DVD is done with that.. there's just not enough space
and if it weren't needed tell me why Rockstar complained about DVD, and why the S-E guy said that there might be differences in content because of Blu-Ray..

and now that MS has allowed HDD instalation the game might even come with DVD's that you would hardly use because of the install

"5.Final Fantasy WON’T be released on the xBox 360 in Japan.
So what? Even if released it would do nothing for the 360. There is a reason the 360 doesn't sell and it has nothing to do with hardware or software."

DUDE that was his exact point =D
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chaosatom - 526 days 23 hours ago
1.5 - yeah, i mean this will seriously not going to boost 360 sales.
So Microsoft fails.
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dude_uk - 526 days 22 hours ago
1.6 - @chaosatom
either way..
if it did release/sell in Japan

sony would still get a share of the money =D
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KLEPTOMANIAC - 526 days 21 hours ago
1.7 - I'll tell you all why it wont be a PS3 killer!
Ummm because its on the ps3 too. duh? Seriously, has the announcement that its coming to 360 make people forget that its multi and not xbox exclusive? *sigh* fanboys
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solidt12 - 526 days 21 hours ago
1.8 - 1 Reason why?
GTA IV is a much larger game and didn't do it, so this game will not change a thing. Especially because Killzone 2, Resistance 2, and God of War 3 will have been out by then. Oh yeah and Infamous.
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Tomdc - 526 days 20 hours ago
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no game could kill any console... stupid article...
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thewhoopimen - 526 days 20 hours ago
1.10 - @1
"Not needed for gaming as Mass Effect, Fable 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc have proved. These games are bigger than any playstation 'exclusive' available now."

- If by bigger you mean tons of repeating textures than a Ps2 title Persona 3 FES is 3X bigger than any of those games you listed. Infinite levels. Keeping toking whatever you've got there...
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harry190 - 527 days 1 hour ago
2 - Japan pretty much
contributes for half the FF sales,so....
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himdeel - 526 days 23 hours ago
2.1 - Winnar!!!
Always has and always will. Japan is the land of FF and they will have at least a few months if not a year (not calendar year but 2009-2010) to go ga-ga all over this game.
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fufotrufo - 527 days 1 hour ago
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LET IT GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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Jack Bauer - 527 days ago
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FFXI was like 4 years old already when it released on 360, not to mention it isnt all that widely popular of a game to begin with...and i played 2 years on the PS2 and like a year on the 360, it was a terrible port, the game ran better on PS2...and most people dont wanna spend 13 bucks a month for a game that takes no less than a month to get into, riddled with expierenced players who dont want to have anything to do with them (was out 4 years already), and have to go through a 4 to 6 hour long install and update process...that's why it didnt do good on the 360.

and typical they dont say the one thing that matters, everything else is crap... i have one reason... 1. The game is still coming to the PS3... end of story.
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thewhoopimen - 526 days 20 hours ago
4.1 - @4.1
"FFXI was like 4 years old already when it released on 360, not to mention it isnt all that widely popular of a game to begin with...and i played 2 years on the PS2 and like a year on the 360, it was a terrible port, the game ran better on PS2.."

Wait it runs better on the PS2 than the 360? That must mean that the PS2 is more powerful than the 360!!!

Yep yep. exactly what 360 fanbois say about sucky PS3 ports.
Whiff of your own medicine.
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phoenixtilt - 527 days ago
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i agree, the xbox version didn't do well cause most ppl don't want to throw more money down on it, if we already pay for live.
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NewSchoolGamer - 527 days ago
6 - Ummmmm Wow @ Sega Saturn
"Mass Effect, Fable 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc have proved. These games are bigger than any playstation 'exclusive' available now."

Faloout 3 is on the PS3 anyway and so is Oblivion. If you think that MAss effect or fable 2 are better than any PS3 exclusive then I think you have reached a new level of fanboyism.

Ratechet and Clank 5 got similar scores to Mass Effect which barely got to the 9.0 review mark while MGs4 is way better than Mass effect.

FABLE 2 BETTER THAN ANY PS3 EXCLUSIVE? OH PLEASE RELAX
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Jack Bauer - 527 days ago
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you should learn to read, he was talking about the games sizes and how they all fit on a DVD, so bluray is not needed cause they are just as long to longer then any PS3 exclusives. he was not talking about quality...and judging by your picture, i could go on all day about killzone 1 if ya try to bash fable or mass effect (which im guessing you havent played)....i think you have reached a new level...

you should be posting in the open zone.
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Shroomy - 527 days ago
6.2 - Why make silly comparisons?
Fable 2 is an Action RPG, you are comparing that to EVERY genre on the PS3's exclusive library?

MGS4 better than Mass Effect? you can argue that all you want, but they are both quite different games.
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jmare - 527 days ago
6.3 - @ JackBauer
Actually, Sega Saturn needs to pull his head out of his ass. He is comparing game time to file size. MGS4 is one of the largest games ever made in file size. There is a huge difference between game time and file size.
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LastDance - 526 days 23 hours ago
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The difference between compressed audio is amazing. Go put on MGS4 or Bad company and then put on a game with crappy sound compression and you can tell the difference (Obviously im not talking about speakers on your TV)
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DJ - 527 days ago
7 - Multiplatform titles generally don't 'kill platforms'
But not releasing in Japan is certainly a huge factor, and possibly something that Square-Enix's biggest shareholder (Sony) fought hard to ensure.
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PBone - 526 days 22 hours ago
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Sony owns 8.5% of stock in S.E. there like 4th on the list of share holders. Sooo there not the biggest but they are kinda up there. But it really doesnt matter because since S.E. said they are going Muti. there stock jump up. So either way sony is making money from xbox sales in the U.S. and Europe. and then there own sales in the U.S. Europe and Japan.
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DJ - 526 days 21 hours ago
7.2 - Oh what?? I read that they owned 18%...
I'll check up on that again. (must've been a bad source) Thanks for the heads up, mate.
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Wildarmsjecht - 527 days ago
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Why is this being brought up again? We don't even have a release date. We don't even know the full story!!

Just stop trying to generate hits with the latest "Shock News" And stop bringing it to N4G. It causes people like Sega Saturn to catch a conniption.

And where the hell did people get this PS3 killer nonsense from!?! God, the Media is just all sorts of retarded.

Know what?

Forge the internet. I'm gonna go read a book.
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BrotherNick - 527 days ago
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5 Reasons Why Your Ego Shouldn't Be Hurt is more like it.
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poeo - 527 days ago
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of course it won't be a ps3 killer. silly to even think so.

though it won't help either.. things might get interesting
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AclayPS3 - 527 days ago
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Final Fantasy XIII being a PS3 exclusive in Japan almost gives the PS3 all of the benefit because: Final Fantasy XIII in Japan = tons of PS3 sales.

If Metal Gear Solid 4 caused PS3 sales in Japan to go from 12,000 per week to 80,000 the week MGS4 was released, I can't even imagine how much of a jump we'll see in PS3 sales in Japan once Final Fantasy XIII is released there.... PS3 sales will be through the roof.
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KnaveX - 527 days ago
12 - Wait a minute?
this is still going on?
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NewSchoolGamer - 527 days ago
13 - @Jack baur
"you should learn to read, he was talking about the games sizes and how they all fit on a DVD, so bluray is not needed cause they are just as long to longer then any PS3 exclusives."

So MAss Effect is a bigger game than MGs4 which according to Kojima almost did not fit on Blu ray itself?

You should think about what you are posting before you comment.
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poeo - 526 days 23 hours ago
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the HIGH (i mean very high) quality audio of MGS4 is bigger than whole of Mass Effect...

not saying anything about how good the games are, just the filesize.
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Fiona - 527 days ago
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The PS3 will benefit more in terms of worl wide sales because of Japan. Thats where the PS3 will move a lot of hardware. But i dont care, now at least more ppl will be enjoying the game, thats wat counts.
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dappaute - 527 days ago
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Final Fantasy will sell more on PS3, no doubt about that. That's the only place to experience the full Final Fantasy experience. (13,versus & 7) and any true final fantasy fan knows this. Why limit themselves to only one title.
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Leathersoup - 526 days 23 hours ago
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Who said it was supposed to be a PS3 killer? It's Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360.

There must be something wrong with the PS3, otherwise why would the fan-base be so rabidly overprotective as to assume that one game going multi-platform would mean that their console would be killed?
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poeo - 526 days 23 hours ago
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well tell me, whats wrong with ps3? since that seems to be your belief.

only 256mb ram? (lol)

PSN is not Live?

no games?

well what??? cos i dont know, my ps3 is an awesome gaming console.
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Leathersoup - 526 days 23 hours ago
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Don't be so defensive. I never said anything was wrong with it. I said that the PS3 fan base keeps jumping to its defense as though there was.

If you were looking to buy a car which say, had a built in iPod interface, and you mentioned to the sales person that another brand of car also had that interface, and the salesperson started saying, "There's nothing wrong with this car. That car isn't going to kill this car! That car is a pile of crap!". Wouldn't you get a little suspicious?

I know I would.
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DJ - 526 days 23 hours ago
16.3 - Actually, I haven't read a single post in this article that fits your description...
Were you talking about posts on another article? Overgeneralizing isn't good, fyi.
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Leathersoup - 526 days 23 hours ago
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I'm referring to the title of the actual story. Not the other posts. The title is, "5 Reasons why Final Fantasy on the 360 wont' be a PS3 Killer.".
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Sarick - 526 days 5 hours ago
16.5 - It's possible
That the JRPG fans didn't forsee the PS3 having a small RPG lineup when they made a PS3 purchase.

It's disturbing that the one 3rd party rpg game that stood out the most suddenly isn't exclusive. This is fairly harsh considering a large percentage of the RPGS released seem to be exclusively on the 360.

Jack said himself. "We have a plan for PS3." He then pointed out that in that plan only one exclusive party RPG was planned.

With so few of these rpgs on the PS3 its hard not to feel alienated by the console Especially, when one of the most popular RPG titles isn't exclusive anymore.

It's like a line full of starving people waiting for a sandwich and an apple. Suddenly a another line emerges with healthy people holding trays with six or more courses to get a sandwich and apple as well.

Kinda makes the starving people feel a little jealous, don't ya think? The small portion suddenly seems that much smaller now that the others are also getting it included with their multi-course meal.

As for it not killing the PS3 it seems about right. It won't kill it but, imho it'll cost Sony a few console sales. A lot of people anticipated buying a PS3 specifically for this game. Now they can just skip buying a PS3 if they have a PC or 360 already.

This second part more less causes people who are fans to feel betrayed by SE. To them SE doing this has robbed the PS3 of console sales figures that could've been used to secure new IP franchises in the console wars.
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JonhnnyAkiba - 526 days 22 hours ago
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For me FFX was the last Final Fantasy.
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FPS nut - 526 days 23 hours ago
19 - Who ever said it was a PS3 killer?
I havn't read that anywhere, on any gaming site. Is he responding to people in forums or here in the N4G comment section? I think FF13 going multiplat is used by MS to draw in some of that FF love and steal some core gamers. The auther of this seemed a bit scared and spiny to me. It seemed like he was spending more time reassuring himself rather than those he was writing it for.
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DJ - 526 days 23 hours ago
19.1 - Hehe
Yeah, seriously.
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Sarick - 526 days 4 hours ago
19.2 - I think the author of this article was confused.
I think he misinterpreted console sales with the ego that who won E3 with the biggest surprise.

Everyone was saying that announcement all but killed anything sony had to offer.

Like it stole attention from Sony. I think it did. Of E3 that single announcement had the most shock and awe effect.

Did it kill PS3? No.

Did it get the most press and attention to the 360 show? IMHO yes it did.

What always happens when people are shocked and surprised like this? Someone starts yelling end of the world doomsday propaganda or end game prophecies. This is probably what this article is in response to. All the doomsday comments about this announcement killing the PS3's future sales.

It's a cheap way to steal attention by pushing the hot buttons of people who are emotionaly attached to the subject material.
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Hellraizer - 526 days 23 hours ago
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FF on 360 means less console sales for PS3. Every FFXIII sold on 360 is a potential no-buy of the PS3 hardware.
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Armyless - 526 days 20 hours ago
20.1 - FFXIII on 360
Means a potentially gimped gaming experience.
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Nevers - 526 days 22 hours ago
21 - How bout just one reason
1. Cuz neither console/company is gonna kill any any other off this generation... PERIOD
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Solid_Snake - 526 days 22 hours ago
22 - i don't agree Hellraizer
"FF on 360 means less console sales for PS3. Every FFXIII sold on 360 is a potential no-buy of the PS3 hardware."

How many 360 owners were going to buy a PS3 just because of this game? Not many. People who were going to buy a PS3 and play XIII on it, were going to buy or will buy a PS3 anyway. They've just been waiting for some of their favorites to come out, or get closer to completion.
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