Final Fantasy XIII ships 5 million copies

Agreed with Jiffy. These ARE sold from Square's perspective. If they don't sell from retail, well... That's the retailers fault for overing over stock.

i told myself I have to beat this before God of War 3.

...under no circumstances should you be concerned whether the 360 gets a port. That's almost always a given except where Konami is concerned.

I bought the PS3 version because I support better technology and I want the best version available. I played Bayonetta on the 360 becuase I wanted to play the best version, with your logic I guess I should have stuck with the PS3.

So... you bought it on the PS3 to ensure more subpar ports?

What exactly are you "not noticing a large visual difference" between? Given that you bought only one copy? No visual difference between your 360 version and... a Famitsu scan?

FF13 on the X360 is by no means a subpar port. If you want to see a subpar port, take a glance at Two Worlds from PC to 360, or Orange Box on PS3. Those are subpar ports.

FF13 on 360 has aliasing issues, upscaling issues, not to mention it's on three discs...

@Tom: Your reasons are perfectly reasonable and I agree with you about multiplatforming to a certain extent, only because exclusive games is what sells consoles and tend to be of a better quality that some multiplatforms. However, I am on the over side of the fence if you will. Just to quote a statement from you, "in hopes of supporting/ensuring that more titles would become multiplatform." I just find myself somewhat displease by this. Not because of you, of course but by past and present situations regarding Square and their "multiplatforming."

I got my PS3 at launch simply because all the companies and series I enjoyed on PS2 were pretty much guaranteed to be on PS3: Final Fantasy, MGS, DMC, etc. FFXIII was automatic for me at annoucement but I soon see that Square Enix is paying a lot of attention to Microsoft. Releasing game after game exclusively on 360: Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant, and formerly Star Ocean 4. I find myself thinking, "Square, what about the PS fanbase?" (fanbase, not fanboys). I just feel that Square was just leaving the PS fanbase like dust in the wind and it saddens me.

FFXIII is probably the first real attention in a released game that Square has paid any attention to Sony since launch of this generation. I do hope that XIII sells more on the PS3 even if it just a small amount simply because to get Square a wake up call saying, "Hey Square, remember all those PS fans from the last 2 generations that loved your games? Guess what? We're still here." Granted, some of the exclusively PS2 owners are now exclusively X360 owners. But for the most part if you had a PS2 then they probably have a PS3. I want both systems to do well regardless.

Sorry for the walls of text but I need to express myself.

"I find myself thinking, "Square, what about the PS fanbase?" (fanbase, not fanboys). I just feel that Square was just leaving the PS fanbase like dust in the wind and it saddens me."

Replace PS with Nintendo and you'll see my younger self a decade ago.

Square didn't leave Nintendo, Nintendo left Square.

By backing the cartridge format, Sakaguchi's hand was forced. FFVII would not have been as memorable on the N64.

Final Fantasy Tactics only had I Disc, as far as I remember. And seeing that game also on the N64 would have been nice, but.... whatever.

The point is that Square-Enix, or the Final Fantasy series, never were really attached to a console.

Tactics is 552 MB, roughly.

That's not going to fit on an N64 cartridge. DS cartridges barely hold that much today.

After playing so many sandbox clones, linearity is a welcomed break. Sometimes I just want to play a video game and not worry whether Decision A will screw me over 10 hours from now or whether grinding in Zone B is a more worthwhile for gaining experience than Zone C.

Cool story, bro.

Pro tip: Capitalization and punctuation go a long way.

You should see my term papers, better yet the looks my professors make when i turn them in for grading. the thing is every time i start to do the correcting process, i start to reword everything & start making change here & there till it is something totally different,from what originally wrote.so sometime online i just post it w/out the proper correction other than spell check.but i do apologize.

How old are you and is English your native language?

Probably because the 360 version comes with an Avatar item.

The PS3 version comes with a registration code promising future goodies. Did the 360 copies come with this also?

Temedien, the PS3 version is for the FFXIV beta. The 360 version is for some junk.

"For many of the 360 owner, they have no clue what Final Fantasy is."

Are you implying that there's a significantly-large segment of the gaming population that either started with the 360 or that have never seen the words "Final Fantasy" in a review/article/advertisement, let alone spoken to someone who has knowledge of the series?

I find it hard to believe that owning a console makes you oblivious to everything that isn't published on that console.

I agree with your statement, but your logic is not quite right. The fact is, people have been buying the PS3 for YEARS in anticipation of this game. For example, Final Fantasy is one of the main reasons I bought my 60-gig launch PS3. On the other hand, it has only been multi-platform for the last year or so.