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July 14th, 2008 @ 20:04
Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada has just confirmed FFXIII for 360.
A lengthy trailer for the game was shown, and Wada described Square’s relationship with Microsoft as “growing”.
Mattrick just described the game as an “astonishing addition” to 360’s line-up.
No shit.
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July 14th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
This is going to get very messy.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Holy hell…
July 14th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Holy fucking shit…
July 14th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT! :-O
The internet just melted.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Wonder how much this stunt costed MS.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
:-O
July 14th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I called it. \o/
July 14th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
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July 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Head back on shoulders. Ahem.
This is nothing short of disastrous for Sony. Disaster. What are they thinking? Why did they not tie this up years ago? Are they mad?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
There will be blood… seriously.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Money talks …
July 14th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Why do you care, morriss? You have a PS3!
July 14th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
This is just getting childish…
July 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Did he mention Versus?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Disaster. Oh lol.
Anyway in more hyperbolic news, this has saved the Conference. In fact it may well be the announcement of the show.
I bet Square placate the PS3 show by saying that Versus 13 is still exclusive or some such shit.
Fucking Square.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I do love this though, Psycho go find out how much MS paid for this. I really want to know.
NEWS JUST IN. MS has bought DQ 9 and are getting an emulator running on the 360. JAPAN EXPLODES.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Blerk - No. Just XIII.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I bet the PS3 will still get it first. If it was a simultaneous release, then he would have said, like they did with GTAIV.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I see.
And it is still coming to PS3, right?
/starts more rumours
July 14th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I have both consoles (360/PS3).
But I would never buy this for the 360, even if it was half the price.
*being really angry about this MS-stunt* :grrr:
July 14th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Well, they didn’t get Japan so there’s some solace there for Sony. Not that it made any sense for SE to bother with a 360 release for Japan.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I only care insomuch that it’s huge fucking news.
If Sony announced Halo I’d've done the same.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
The internet HAS melted! EG forums - gone. NeoGAF - gone. Kotaku - slow as fuck. IGN - almost stone dead. lol!
July 14th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I guess we’ll just have to wish them luck with cramming it onto a (or several) DVD9 then.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Sony are fucked though. They really do have nothing left anymore.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Colour me surprised!
I don’t remember if the dude said anything about Versus. How much do you think Microsoft paid for this little stunt?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
It would be good if Sony called it a day and went the way of Sega. Most Sony titles are quite nice.
Poor bastards.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
What’s crazy is that no-one saw it coming.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Hi, Roy.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
@ ecu
Jojstiq reports that it will be released the same day as PS3:
“Sorry, Sony. The Xbox 360 is finally going to get a blockbuster RPG. Square has announced at the Microsoft press conference that Final Fantasy XIII is going to be released on Xbox 360 the same day as PS3 in North America and Europe. What a huge coup for Microsoft, and what a great piece of news for Xbox 360 owners who also happen to be great console RPG lovers.”
July 14th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
That is a bona fide megaton. Wow.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Oh shit wait… what if Sony traded exclusivity on this for a FFVII remake? The internets would die for a second time in two days.
That’s my prediction.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Supposedly it’s not going to the 360 in Japan, only in the West.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
“great console RPG lovers.”
snigger.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
@Psycho: What’s even crazier is that everyone joked about it happening. And then it did.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
NA only, it seems.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
July 14th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Doesn’t Star Ocean already count as a blockbuster RPG? Silly Joystiq.
Anyway, where’s that Resi 5 media, Pat?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Microsoft must have paid a fortune for this. I wonder if it’ll be worth the effort in terms of sales?
ecu: Where did you read that Japan wasn’t getting it? That seems like madness to me.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
morriss: That was the impression I got from the feed… but I can’t remember why.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Everyone seems to be talking about it. No idea where it came from, just seen people mention it in various places. Some places are even saying it’s NA only on the 360.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
EG is saying, “Will be out same time as PS3.”
July 14th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
And Square totally went back on their promise to support all the consoles.
“we won’t let one console dominate like before” but we can now assume that meant they didn’t want Sony to dominate again. Do they even have any other exclusive PS3 games in development except Versus XIII (which we can assume won’t be PS3 exclusive anyway).
July 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Yeah, it’s out the same time. The quality was too bad to make out the words on the screen of my stream, so I missed it.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
From the EG live text feed:
“Available on Xbox 360 at launch in North America and Europe.”
July 14th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I’m sure this’ll all be clarified over E3.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I’m loving the 360 “bah, FF is all cutscenes and summons, you don’t actually play anything” rhetoric that’s, amazingly, vanished in a puff of hypocrisy.
Dunno how big it compares outside of Japan but we all know Japan pretty much take a holiday for Final Fantasy releases and Dragon Quest releases.
No Japan = severely softened impact.
Whatever MS paid for it, not getting it on 360s in Japan is a huge missed oppurtunity to shift hardware in the region. I also undermines everything they’ve said about being serious about Japan.
Still, the 360 hardcore’s attitude u-turn on Final Fantasy is comedy gold.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
This is mental. How the hell did they manage it?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
On closer inspection, I’m really puzzled as to how they didn’t get it on 360’s in Japan.
The game will be in Japanese anyway - it’s not like they’re going to have to localise it just to cover that region.
The game will be on 360’s anyway - it’s not like it’s a new development project just for that platform.
Either way, all the work is getting done it just somehow isn’t coming out in Japan…
…there’s more to this than meets the eye.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Spiral: Lots and lots of money.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
$50 mil for a couple of episodic content packages for GTA IV… Has to be a three digit number of millions for FFXIII.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
It’s not confirmed that it’s not coming out in Japan. That’s just what we’ve assumed from the info they released. They didn’t mention a Japanese release, but they never explicitly said that it wasn’t being released in Japan.
If that is indeed the case, I’m sure that Sony must have had something to do with it. Maybe Sony have cut some deal here, too.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Wada specifically said something about it being to reach North American gamers. I was a bit mental at the time so I can’t recall what he said exactly.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
True. Nobody has made a definitive statement about Japan. But if it’s not been announced alongside all the other announcements of the game (and let’s remember it’s a rather Japan-friendly franchise) it seems very odd to forget to mention it.
I tend to assume that if something hasn’t (yet) been announced then it doesn’t exist rather than it does.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
So, can Sony just not afford to buy exclusives anymore?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Well, if you’re Square, you probably don’t want to miss out on many, many millions of 360 owners in NA, I guess. Look at GTA: Rockstar sold untold million of IV as it was multiformat. This really was the great third-party exclusive: no longer. This really does signal a change in the entire business, in my view.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Sony made a comment the other day about focusing on internal development. Maybe they’re opting out of buying exclusives in favour of developing them.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Pat: If it was just a case of money I’d have thought it would have happened before now. But you could be right. Occam’s Razor and all that.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Yeah, you’re right Spiral. Square wouldn’t have done it unless the installed base was there, definitely not.
Shatner: I’m going to be *very* interested to see what Sony has to say tomorrow. Unless they come out with something completely epic, internal or otherwise, it’s going to be a disaster show for them.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Why are we talking like we ‘know’ it isn’t going to be out in Japan?
We’re still not sure, right?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
morriss: It wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened, I’m pretty sure.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
“Why are we talking like we ‘know’ it isn’t going to be out in Japan?”
Um, no we’re not. We’re all saying “if”.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Oh. Shatner seemed to be pretty sure, that’s all.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Not that it matters anyway, since the PS3 version would dominate Japan, regardless.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
http://kotaku.com/5025033/liveblogging-square-enix-press-conference
July 14th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Its a shame that one port has ruined Sony’s E3. The rest of that conference was approaching Sony 2006 levels of fail.
Its also a shame that everyone is falling over themselves to call out “doom” and “disaster” and “its all over” and picking at the carcass.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Basically, good old Shane Bettenhausen asked what we wanted to know. Japan 360 isn’t getting it. Some interesting questions here, let me know what you guys think.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Turn based combat sucks.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Kotaku are liveblogging the Square Enix conference right now.
Confirmed -
-360 version was announced because PS3 is selling badly.
- “first they will finish ffxiii in japan. and then they will start localization for english. at that point, they will start the xbox 360 development.”
- Europe version to be late, due to translations. (this may effect PS3 buyers, since that version is more likely to be region free than the 360 version).
- when asked about the possibility of FFXIII 360 in Japan - “I think you are right [in assuming that it’s not coming out in Japan]”
- No plans to make the versions different
- FF Versus XIII is still PS3 exclusive
July 14th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
- FF Versus XIII is still PS3 exclusive
I fucking told you.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I’m back! I did leave, but I couldn’t stay away.
I know people are saying that Microsoft must’ve put up big bags of money for this, but I’m not so sure. The 360 is a popular machine outside of Japan, why would SquareEnix ever want to turn that cash down? From where I’m sitting it would appear that it’s a lack of big bags of money from Sony that caused this, not the promise of the same from Microsoft.
Sony have fucked up bad. This is going to be the only thing that ANYONE is talking about once E3 is over unless Sony really do have some huge megaton up their sleeves. I’m surprised Microsoft didn’t mention it at their conference, actually.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
MEGATON BOMB!!! Never saw this coming. Sony better have a hell of a conference up their sleeve.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
My heart has just broken.
x a million.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I’m done with Sony.. anyone want to buy a used 60 GB ?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
DOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMED
July 14th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I never claimed to “know” morriss - don’t try to put words into my mouth.
I’m merely paying attention to the facts delivered by the source rather than favouring speculation and guesswork. It may be less fun, but it saves me the misplaced sense of disappointment and the even greater misplaced reaction of calling a company a liar because I forgot what was said and what wasn’t.
If my profession was dealing with industry news and I wished to remain credible, I’d make a point of knowing the difference between fact and fiction.
Still, that’s just me.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
What do Sony have left now? LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2..hrm.. anything else?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
The Team Ico game.
Need anything else?
Oh and God of War. Fuck those though. sonylol
July 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Gran Turismo
July 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Not much else
July 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I really am quite astonished by this. Sony really, really dropped the ball here.
Then again, FFXIII may be like FFXII in which case I really don’t give a shiny shite either way because it was rubbish, but really, the only thing Sony has left is Metal Gear Solid and it wouldn’t surprise me much if MGS4 Sub-whatever ends up on the 360 as well.
So then it really does just come down to first party titles…
July 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Little bit of over reaction here? It’s one game. Aside from that announcement MS’sE3 conference was looking fairly poor to be honest. Sony still have plenty of stuff and a conference themselves. Lets wait and see.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
It’s one game, yes. But it’s a stupendously HUGE one game, and the PS3’s biggest remaining third party exclusive. It’s not like they just nicked Barbie Horse Adventures or something.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Yeah, it was a rubbish conference. This announcement saved their asses really, and even now it’s a bit of smoke and mirrors. It’s not even a new game, it’s fanboy fodder more than anything. This has really diverted attention away from everything else.
The fact that the biggest things people are getting excited/talking about are a) installing games, but still needing a disc, b) it supporting a couple of extra screen resolutions, and c) a PS3 game going multiplatform, it really highlights how bad it was.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Its not that huge. Its still coming out for PS3. The numbers are’nt the problem, the fact that its coming out at all is.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
DrDamn: Other than Gran Turismo (which is first party and untouchable) this is the jewel in the Sony crown. No-one was expecting this. As for the content in the rest of the conference… would you want to put anything else major in there to be overshadowed? Bungie have an announcement to make the day after tomorrow so it’s not finished yet.
I’m struggling to think of a bigger game related announcement I’ve seen in 20+ years of gaming.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
DrDamn, you’ve got it all wrong:
When Sony do something, it’s curtains for Sony.
When Microsoft do something, it’s curtains for Sony.
When Nintendo do something, it’s TEH INNOVATIVE OMGWTFBBQ!!!!1 (and curtains for Sony)
According to the internets, Sony has been doomed every day for the last two and a half years and when a butterfly flutters its wings in a field in New Jersey this also spells doom and gloom for Sony.
Sony are doomed. The internet said so. The internet is never wrong.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Sony doomed themselves. Microsoft and Nintendo didn’t really have anything to do with it.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
It is a very big deal. Final Fantasy is the world’s biggest third-party exclusive, and now it isn’t. This announcement really does signal a sea-change, for the west at least. If XIII had remained a PS3 exclusive globally, it could have seriously altered the state of play between the two consoles completely, in my opinion.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
“I’m struggling to think of a bigger game related announcement I’ve seen in 20+ years of gaming.”
It’s not that big. Square falling out with Nintendo was MUCH bigger than this. Sony haven’t lost FFXIII, it’s just the shape of a changing market, and Square have been backing other platforms for a while now. However, with FFVII, Square said goodbye to Nintendo and took their next Final Fantasy exclusive to Sony, which was much more of a shock. FFXIII will still sell more on the PS3.
It’s evident now though, that the industry can’t support third party exclusives on these consoles. The time is coming where they’ll have to merge, like DVD players, and be able to play each others games.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
“If my profession was dealing with industry news and I wished to remain credible, I’d make a point of knowing the difference between fact and fiction.
Still, that’s just me.”
Yeah, you soldier on.
/lights a candle for credibility
July 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
DQ9 on the DS was a bigger shock.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
“It is a very big deal. Final Fantasy is the world’s biggest third-party exclusive, and now it isn’t. This announcement really does signal a sea-change, for the west at least. If XIII had remained a PS3 exclusive globally, it could have seriously altered the state of play between the two consoles completely, in my opinion.”
Hehe, romantic, but.. no. People wouldn’t have rushed out to buy a PS3 and the wondrous FFXIII because it’s that big and that huge. Some people would. Most people just wouldn’t have bothered. It takes more than one good game to make people part with their money. Final Fantasy is not a bigger franchise than GTA and Halo (in the West) either. This is pretty big news, but it’s let’s not over exaggerate it.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
The thing about Final Fantasy is that it’s only really MASSIVE in Japan. It sells reasonably well in Europe and the US, but it’s not going to make the difference this generation. I’d be surprised if this one decision will suddenly sway everything Microsoft’s way, particularly as we’ve not even seen Sony’s conference yet.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
So many people in Denmark I know are/were holding out for FFXIII it’s untrue.
It’s huge here. I think “maybe” it’s bigger in Europe than the UK, tbh. I’d be interested to hear what they have to say after this.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
FFXII was the tenth biggest-selling game for the PS2. Yes, it’s not as big as GTA or Halo, but you can’t seriously deny that it’s big business. One of the biggest.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
@Psychotext
“I’m struggling to think of a bigger game related announcement I’ve seen in 20+ years of gaming.”
Really? You are shitting me. Square defecting from Nintendo to Sony in the first place was much, much bigger. Rare being sold by Nintendo to MS bigger. This is a 3rd party title going multiplatform. If you look at these things logically then its the way this gen has been going. Unless you pay for exclusivity then you don’t get it and Sony haven’t done that this generation.
I’m on a couple of other sensible gaming forums/mailing lists. None of them have gone all ape shit and teh DOOMED! It’s big news, but it’s not massive. Sony need to stand up by their exclusives. We’ve seen the last of the big third party exclusives.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I think if it wasn’t big news there wouldn’t be nearly 100 comments here.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
DrDamn: I’m talking about a single game rather than whole companies moving. Of course there are bigger bits of company related news!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
ecu - I have to be honest, I completely disagree with you. I think there are a huge amount of people that would have bought a PS3 if FFXIII was an exclusive. Just look at the kick MGS4 gave it. With the best will in the world, Metal Gear is simply not as big a deal as FF. It’s a major, major game.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
So, how long before the MGS4 360 announcement, then?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
102
July 14th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
FFXII sold ~2.5m in Japan, 1.8m in the US and 0.8m in Europe.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
No-ones saying it’s not big news, but you have to put it in perspective. It’s a third party game going multiformat, for a nth time this generation. I don’t think it’ll win the 360 much in terms of sales - it’ll sell well on the 360, but it won’t kill the PS3, because it’s still coming out on that console.
This looks worse for Sony than it actually is. Game development is now so expensive that big third party exclusives are not viable from a business sense. Coming off the back of a generation where is -was- , and where PS2 was the huge market leader, makes it look like Sony are losing all their games. I don’t think their strategy has changed, it’s just that now, games have to be multiformat to survive, this is just the way the industry is moving towards. FFXIII going to 360 was pretty obvious, if you think about it (I predicted it months ago), because you could see the way the market was shaping up. But it’s not an announcement that’s going to kill Sony, since a large chunk of FFXIII’s sales will still be on PS3. Worldwide, the PS3 version will sell the most.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
“ecu - I have to be honest, I completely disagree with you. I think there are a huge amount of people that would have bought a PS3 if FFXIII was an exclusive. Just look at the kick MGS4 gave it. With the best will in the world, Metal Gear is simply not as big a deal as FF. It’s a major, major game.”
It. Is. Still. Coming. Out. On. P.S.3.
-That- is why it’s not as significant as some people are making out. Still huge news, and it’s only a marginally bigger title than MGS in the West. In Europe, even Gran Turismo is a bigger release.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
You’re only commenting to see how I might respond.
And for what it’s worth: morriss, stop pouting and do your job.
If I was a game developer I’d be concerned if my staff spent more time playing other people’s games than developing the ones they’re paid to. If my profession was different and I saw staff spending as much, if not more, time making comments than writing news articles I’d be equally concerned (particularly during E3), if not moreso as it suggests and air of pettiness and inability to rise above it all. That’s a privilige for the visitors of the site, not the owners.
We all know how ugly things look when the content creators start trading blows with their punters. It ain’t pretty and it ain’t professional.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
This place needs a chatroom. Heh.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Yes Shatner, sir. Sorry Shatner, sir. Please feel that you can undermine me whenever you please, bring my credibility into question and come across as antagonistic and supercilious and not expect to be challenged on it.
In fact, please tell me what my job is as you seem to know much better than I what it is and how it should be done.
I’m dying to know.
Your friend,
Mike
July 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Get a room, you two. Only man love can save you now.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
You never were any fun, Blerk.
I’m happy anyway, I’ve been writing since 8am and don’t seem to be able to stop pushing the keys on my keyboard…..
July 14th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I’m going to bed now. Don’t break the internet overnight.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
morriss, if you were being ironic instead of merely petty then I’d have less reason to offer my critique.
I don’t need to know or care what your job is or what it entails. It’s my divine right as visitor of this site to comment on its content as I see fit. I am not required to be qualified in the same skills as you are, nor to be experienced or familiar with your profession in order to pass damning critique should I wish to. I’m not here because I’m one of your chums that’ll make a sarcastic comment in your favour to patch any cracks in a fractured ego.
I do it because I have an opinion and I have the means to express it. It would be a cushy number if I could earn money doing that. It’s probably even better than getting paid to sit around and play games for a living.
The result are back in morriss. Your sense of humour bypass was a resounding success.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I’m with Blerk… and not on the going to bed thing.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Welcome to VG24/7 Shatner a less insular AATG
July 14th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
We should all go to bed together. See who comes out alive.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I don’t kiss nice.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Dragging the conversation kicking and screaming back on track. Couple of things to think about. FFXII sold ~5m copies. This is to an installed user base of well over 100m. 5% of people with a PS2 bought it.
The reason this sort of announcement isn’t so big any more is because the user bases they are going for are much bigger and full of people who don’t give a toss about some strange Japanese RPG. Take a look at the BBC. They aren’t even reporting this “megaton”. They are reporting on the push for the mainstream and have a pic of LBP at the top of the page.
It’s big to the hardcore of gamers, but in the grander scheme of things it’s not going to have that massive an impact.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
AATG?
morriss, I expect a meal and a night of dancing before getting horizontal with you. I’m not like your other cheap floozies.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
AATG is the EG Freemason society.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Shatner: That’s not what I’ve heard! Still if it’s a meal you want, my local chippy does a mean plaice.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
“Sony are doomed. The internet said so. The internet is never wrong.”
Wouldn’t that require them to have eeeked out at least a minor bit of success with the PS3 in the first place?
120 post in 4 hours. You at least can’t deny this is big news on the interwebs right now. *laughs*
July 14th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Should’ve been Sony “is” doomed.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Nobody ever said it wasn’t big news! ARGH!
July 15th, 2008 at 12:07 am
You should really give up ecu.
Finger in the wall and all that.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Microsoft is DOOMED!
If a company’s biggest announcement is having a port from another console, then they really are doomed …
And the rest of this boring conference was showing copies of ideas from Sony, Nintendo and Apple!
July 15th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Trailer is up btw… http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/flv/ff13_trailer.flv
July 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am
If this isn’t big news, how come it’s generated the longest comments section so far on this site? Pat, you are totally right, as always. Except when you’re talking about the Welsh rugby side, naturally.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I’m so right. I’m never, ever wrong.
*bleeding eyes*
July 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Wow longest comment thread ever?
Look, apart from Gears and Portal 2 (which I’ll get on the PC anyway) it is a bit sad that MS biggest news is getting a game which is on the PS3.
and that isn’t a fanboy talking, thats someone who watched the MS E3 conf.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
If Peter Moore was still there he would’ve gotten a new tattoo.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Blerk: Peter was awesome. So sad that he’s over at EA now… not getting nearly enough face time.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I really hope this is a parody… (language, NSFW)
July 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Moderation monster has eaten my post. /o\
July 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Approved.