Square Enix: 360 FFXIII development hasn't begun Options

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Square Enix: 360 FFXIII development hasn't begun Posted by XanTium | August 2 23:43 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From gamespot.com: [QUOTE] Today at its DK Sigma3173 Event, Square Enix made a series of announcements. Director Motomu Toriyama didn't beat around the bush when Nomura asked him questions about the 360 FFXIII. Starting off, he reconfirmed that, "We haven't changed the direction of the development. We're making the PS3 version first, and then porting to the 360 later." That means that since the game will be released simultaneously on both platforms in North America and Europe, the PS3 release will be held back in those territories until the 360 version is complete. Furthermore, Toriyama also revealed that, as of July 29, his team hasn't yet received the tools needed to begin work on the Xbox 360 version of FFXIII. "I'm telling them to not think about the Xbox 360 right now," he said. "We can think about it after the development kits arrive." The designer also reassured PS3 owners that the game's quality would not suffer due to the 360 port. "We aren't going to change any specifications [of FFXIII] because of the multi-platform announcement," he declared. "Right now, we're fully concentrating on the PS3 version." [/QUOTE] Full Story: gamespot.com

[Naquadah]

oh what the hell man that sucks! i was sure the 360 ver would take longer but i thought who cares i have a ps3 too... now i hear theyre holding the ps3 version back? that sucks ass! the 360 ver will probly add like 6 months to the dev time, so instead of the game comming out in NA for me to import (UK) in say Autumn 2009 it probably wont be out till like march 2010... damn them!

[Fang-An]

Well, it really sucks that the Ps3 version is held back. But at least it's the the lead platform. So I'll buy the PS3 Version.

[colt45joe]

. now i hear theyre holding the ps3 version back? that sucks ass!

isnt that always the case for these games? they always come out in japan first, then with translating and all that, the USA version comes out months later... like FFXII..right?

[G3iST]

how did they produced Project Sylpheed without dev kits and what about The Last Remnant? they have for sure dev kits

[halcyonx12]

I hope this isn't what's responsible for the delay in XIII coming out... I hope they don't plan on holding the PS3 version back just to launch the 360 version at the same time.

[Oncophage]

I'm not sure which version of FFXIII I will get. I'm guessing this won't be coming to NA until 2010 I'm afraid.

[luther349]

yea that right i forgot abought those games they have kits wtf they talking abought. unless they only leased them just for those games.

This post has been edited by luther349: Aug 4 2008, 07:36 PM

[Killa Kastro]

how did they produced Project Sylpheed without dev kits and what about The Last Remnant? they have for sure dev kits

yea that right i forgot abought those games they have kits wtf they talking abought. unless they only leased them just for those games.

Correct they have their own dev kits for each project.