Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360

Chun-Li 07-16-2008

Square-Enix has announced Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 at Microsoft's E3 press conference.

The announcement debuted in the form of a new trailer which initially looked like a Panzer Dragoon game with dragons flying in a trench. A ship lands in the trailer and flying mechanical soldiers drop out. Included in the trailer were massive airships.

A hint of gamplay was shown and the graphics looked awesome.

Although no specific release date was confirmed, it was announced that the RPG will launch simultaneously on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in both the US and Europe.

Raven

This will make alot of xhox only users very happy but at the same time xbox does't have alot of rpg type games so this ill be an instant hit.

joker

iam the one who not happy with this news

Raven

That's mainly becuase you own and operate a store mainly for Playstation games, so of course you majorly afected by this.

hugo281

lol well I can't wait to see FF3 come out for the Xbox 360, it looks like a good game from the video game trailer I saw on IGN.com

Hsoolien

Interesting to note that Sony held Japan exclusitivity for this title. But it's nice to see Square reach beyond it's comfort zone, I imagine market had a huge impact on this decision, after all, why would ignore the other 4/5's of console owners out there?

hugo281

i know right!!! that's what I was wondering about Square too, since there's other consoles they should've provided games for them just as much as for the PS game console, but yeah I can't wait to check out this FF, you know I'm still hooked on Crisis Core for the Nintendo DS

Hsoolien

Sony bailed Square out with FF VII when the SNES CD was scrapped, but how far does thanks go when it cuts into potential revenue?

hugo281

exactly and not only that but you noticed how the Nintendo DS came out with Crisis Core first and I wondered if finally Square was able to escape Sony's grasp of making games just for them or what not, but yeah dude I'm glad the diversity is finally happening when it comes to Final Fantasy even though they are coming out with Final Fantasy VIII for the Wii n Xbox 360 too but hell yeah its all good

Raven

Not very far since profit is the number one goal.

Hsoolien

Over ten years though before they finally started doing other consoles (if you don't include hand held), and I admit the old XBox was not the juggernaut of the 360, but still had a hard core install base, plus the Nintendo offerings (who they are obviously not too pissed at since they did a game for the Cube and the GBA family)

hugo281

Yeah but at least they scored big later on for the Nintendo DS with Core Crisis, that game rocked I was having alot of fun playing that game

Hsoolien

They've done well for Nintendos portables I agree, it's just until the GC game (Crystal Chronicles?), Square had been PS exclusive for home systems

hugo281

yeah that's true, but I hope they do come up with something awesome like Core Crisis or better, cause honestly I haven't seen alot of RPG games around except for maybe 10 or 12 I heard of, but I'm sure they are out there I just haven't looked hard enough

Hsoolien

Everyone seems to feel that FF games are the only RPG's worth porting to the US, there are a lot made in Japan, but they never get ported cause they fear bad sales. There are so many of them that actually are more fun to play, just not as pretty and polished as the FF series