Considering the impressive demo of Final Fantasy XIII running on Xbox 360 shown off at the Microsoft presser during E3, we were shocked to find out recently that the build being demoed was actually less than six months old. The game's producer Yoshinori Kitase told Giant Bomb during E3 that, "Up to the trial demo version that was released in Japan, [the game] was PS3-only in terms of development."
He explains further, saying, "The Xbox 360 version is definitely following after the PS3 version, but [we] were finally able to come to a point in the PS3 development where some of the staff could take their hands off and start programming the 360 version." Seems as though the claims that the PS3 version would be complete before work on 360 development started were a bit ... overzealous?
Reader Comments (160)
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 3:26PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
"360 sucks balls, like lost odissey,"
Lol no. Not even close.
Lol no. Not even close.
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 3:33PM (Unverified) said
at ( R (XBL: Esoteric Lord) ) even if its 3 years old its still happening MS still did not fix the prob still peopel by something like a gaming system that fucks up every 3 months .....you cant thow money at the prob ...they need to have a mass recall .
and plus half of the 360 sales are due to people buying a back up system ....still there online is not free i mean you pay like 50 a month to go online wit ha computer ontop of the XBL gold ....im sorry but if you guys want me to get in to 360 you have to proven to me that this system is worth my money .
or i can spent the same alomt of money on a gaming computer that is better then the 360 .
and plus half of the 360 sales are due to people buying a back up system ....still there online is not free i mean you pay like 50 a month to go online wit ha computer ontop of the XBL gold ....im sorry but if you guys want me to get in to 360 you have to proven to me that this system is worth my money .
or i can spent the same alomt of money on a gaming computer that is better then the 360 .
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 4:38PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said
You point being?
Do yourself a favour, stop, just stop, otherwise you might do yourself some mental damage.
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Do yourself a favour, stop, just stop, otherwise you might do yourself some mental damage.
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 3:34PM (Unverified) said
At ( Jason Statham (Aka Vegeta) ) are you saying that the red ring of death dont happen any more funny b/c my brothers 360 craped out on him
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 3:37PM (Unverified) said
At ( Jason Statham (Aka Vegeta) ) nice try to turn what i said agianst me ......but thats more of you that is a vrigin ....
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 4:44PM (Unverified) said
Why does the PS3 have to be installing to the hard drive to keep up with the XBox?
Makes more sense that they do it for the same reason they do it on PC, it's faster. Just better all round, like installing your XBox games, it's just quieter and faster (well, usually faster, if not, well, negligibly slower, still worth it).
Makes more sense that they do it for the same reason they do it on PC, it's faster. Just better all round, like installing your XBox games, it's just quieter and faster (well, usually faster, if not, well, negligibly slower, still worth it).
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 4:53PM Marius said
Just make the whole game shitty and start working on Versus
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 5:08PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said
Cosmo
"There must be a reason why so many PS3 games require mandatory installs, they should at least be optional like for Soul Calibur 4."
I don't know how many PS3 games you have played in the last year but the mandatory installs are pretty much (not all the way) gone and are now optional installs or none at all.
"My guess is due to lazy programming and perhaps the Blu-Ray drive's slower read speed but at least its much quieter than the 360's DVD drive."
The BR drive as I understand it reads at the same rate on every point of the disc so depending on where the information is stored you might have longer seek times. DVD doesn't have a constant speed and in some parts is slower and some is faster. This is why we see more redundancy on PS3 games now and streaming technologies that is essentially caching everything to a chunk of memory instead of permanently installing it. In the end it gives a very desirable effect that doesn't take any amount of space on your HDD and also has little to no loading what so ever.
"There must be a reason why so many PS3 games require mandatory installs, they should at least be optional like for Soul Calibur 4."
I don't know how many PS3 games you have played in the last year but the mandatory installs are pretty much (not all the way) gone and are now optional installs or none at all.
"My guess is due to lazy programming and perhaps the Blu-Ray drive's slower read speed but at least its much quieter than the 360's DVD drive."
The BR drive as I understand it reads at the same rate on every point of the disc so depending on where the information is stored you might have longer seek times. DVD doesn't have a constant speed and in some parts is slower and some is faster. This is why we see more redundancy on PS3 games now and streaming technologies that is essentially caching everything to a chunk of memory instead of permanently installing it. In the end it gives a very desirable effect that doesn't take any amount of space on your HDD and also has little to no loading what so ever.
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 6:58PM Railgun said
Most of the RPG's on the 360 really aren't that good. They're just your standard JRPG game. Lost Odyssey was decent but even that I made it to the 4th disc and never bothered finishing.
Posted: Jun 16th 2009 7:05PM Cerpin Taxt said
Much better than my two month old cousin or The Last Remnant.




