360 version won't delay PS3 version, Square Enix insists.
In an interview with OPM Australia, Square Enix corporate executive Shinji Hashimoto and Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase have both moved to allay fears that the PS3 version of the hotly anticipated RPG will be 'decreased in quality' due to its multi-platform development.
Scans of the magazine, provided by a forum member on Finalfantasy-XIII.net, reveal quotes from the two Final Fantasy chiefs as follows:
Kitase: "We will be completing the PS3 version first before we move on to the next, we'll burn them onto the Blu-ray disc before moving on and that's where we are right now."
Hashimoto: "We don't want PS3 owners to be disappointed in any way. It's not that we are cancelling or delaying the PS3 version in any way, it's still right on schedule for development."
Kitase: "Because it is coming to two platforms there might be some fans that are worried it may become generic, so that it will fit onto both consoles, but the PS3 version is what is in development right now and the team is looking to specialise it for the PS3 so that the game is maximised, and then they will port it over to the 360 and fully utilise the capabilities of that console. We're trying to use the hardware to the max for both consoles, so there will be no decrease in quality with it going to both platforms."
While there's no release date for a European version of FFXIII, Square Enix has said it intends to reduce the time it takes to localise for Western markets. Microsoft's big E3 announcement - that the game would be coming to the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3 - stole the show and sent PS3 fans into uproar.
What do you think readers? Are you worried that the PS3 version of FFXIII will suffer because it's also coming to the 360? Let us know in the comments section below.
Noob wrote at 14:44 on 23 September 2008
I don't think the ps3 will suffer... but i have a question, does this mean that the ps3 version will be out before the xbox360 or they will
burn it to the disc and leave it there to work on the 360's port.. THEN release it together?
Sam wrote at 15:42 on 23 September 2008
Definetly, PS3 will not suffer from this, anyone who says it is just likes to suck the fun from people who simply cannot afford a PS3, and people who don't want one due to it's rubbish games.
What they are doing, I believe, is releasing them at the same time. They will simply port the PS3 version to the 360, obviously the graphics will go down a tad, and that will be that. PS3 people may have to wait an extra day!! Actually now I put that with sarcasm it sounds like a long and horrible time, I certainly don't want to wait an extra day!
Anyway, both are released together, at any rate.
Noob wrote at 16:12 on 23 September 2008
Aww... Oh well i got a great ps3 fall to deal with... if only fable 2 was coming to ps3 :(
ps3omega wrote at 05:39 on 28 September 2008
stupid xbox as if this game wasnt taking long enough to come out now we have to wait for the xbox version before anybody gets to play it! as if final fantasy was like some kind of family dinner, and we have to wait for everyone to sit down before anyone gets start eating. pff
Hulkx wrote at 18:18 on 17 November 2008
Of course they will downgrade the game because no third party publisher or developer will ever want to make a game that looks as bright and vivid as a sunny day on one console and as dull and dark as a moonless night on the other. Thats simply bed for the company and for their own reputation for that matter.
I am not trying to take anything away from 360 rather I am happy that my friends on that platform can also now enjoy the brilliance that is FF13. But fact remains that PS3 is indeed more powerful system and with all due respect, we don't any games on 360 with graphical fidelity as that of Killzone 2 which puts games like Crysis to test and challenge them. And FF13 was going to be one of them. And now because it has to be made on 360 as well, it is no brainer that it will be severely downgraded to match its counterpart on 360 just because its the developers reputation at stake. I will be amazed if FF13 lives up to be as great as Killzone 2. But I also wish and pray that God proves me wrong...