Square Enix: Absolutely No Final Fantasy Xbox 360 For Japan Options

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Square Enix: Absolutely No Final Fantasy Xbox 360 For Japan Posted by XanTium | August 27 15:22 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From kotaku.com: [QUOTE] An issue of Dengeki PlayStation that goes on sale August 29th in Japan, Final Fantasy XIII director and writer Motomu Toriyama and FFXIII Versus director Tetsuya Nomura talk about the possibility of Japan getting a Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 version. Nomura says that he himself was "surprised" at the FFXIII Xbox 360 Asia version news, saying that Microsoft's comment ("It would be nice if the game came out") was taken to mean that it was actually confirmed for Asia. More interesting than that clusterfuck is Toriyama's comment about whether or not Final Fantasy XIII will be released in Japan on the Xbox 360 platform: "There will absolutely not be an Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII for Japan." [/QUOTE] [FS] kotaku.com

[47_M450N_47]

Oh well.

[g8crapachino]

Oh well.

You summed up my feelings exactly. I for one haven't had interest in the Final Fantasy series since I played FF-VII on the PS1 years ago. Back then I felt the plot was becoming confusing and obscure, and the combat became tedious and redundant. The flashier graphics in later installments never really changed by opinion.

[miggidy]

Still, this sucks for Japanese X360 owners.
I feel bad for them, really.
I mean these cats are pretty hardcore for buying an expensive non-Japanese console with very little local developer support, and this is what they get from Square? That's a Square slap in the face (pun intended).
It goes to show how far Spuare's up $ony's @$$ets....


But come to think of it, these Japanese Xbox 360 owners probably own PS3's anyway.
I mean they are hardcore gamers, only hardcore Japanese gamers would buy an Xbox 360 for a couple of exclusive RPG's. These same hardcore gamers have to have the extra cash to burn, so I'm pretty sure these guys are likely to also own a PS3....

[HotKnife420]

Best news article in a while. Not because of the content, but because they used the word 'clusterfuck' in a sentance

Still, this sucks for Japanese X360 owners.
I feel bad for them, really.
I mean these cats are pretty hardcore for buying an expensive non-Japanese console with very little local developer support, and this is what they get from Square? That's a Square slap in the face (pun intended).
It goes to show how far Spuare's up $ony's @$$ets....
But come to think of it, these Japanese Xbox 360 owners probably own PS3's anyway.
I mean they are hardcore gamers, only hardcore Japanese gamers would buy an Xbox 360 for a couple of exclusive RPG's. These same hardcore gamers have to have the extra cash to burn, so I'm pretty sure these guys are likely to also own a PS3....

The 5 360 owners in Japan who don't also have a PS3 are more than welcome to import the Asian version... half the games I got for my Japanese console are the 'Asian' versions because they're more likely to be in English, though if the Asian version doesn't contain Japanese text, I can see how this could be a problem. As far as region flagging goes, though, I haven't run across an 'Asian' game that wouldn't play on my Japanese 360 (or maybe I have it backwards, and I haven't found a Japanese game that doesn't play on my Asian 360...). Either way, I believe NTSC/J is NTSC/J, just as PAL in Germany is PAL in London (though content of the release itself may differ).

Also, the Japanese 360 owners probably didn't buy it just for Blue Dragon, Tales of Vesperia & Trusty Bell; I'm sure they've also gotten things like 'The Idolm@ster' ('Live For You' version now available), Culdcept Saga, Lost Planet (I met nothing but Japanese players the first day I played this... only time ever, on XBL), Zoids (Infinity, or Neo), Zegapain NOT and/or XOR (space shooters like that are popular over there), and Tengai Makyou: Ziria (Wish I could find that one at a decent price). There's some other titles that were developed over there (Wasn't Kingdom Under Fire from a Japanese dev?), but that's a decent sized library of Japanese titles (not to mention they also get many of the popular US games, such as Gears).

This post has been edited by HotKnife420: Aug 28 2008, 02:19 AM

[cory1492]

This is new? I recall them saying FF 13 wouldn't come on the 360's Japanese regions back when I found out it was going to be on the 360's other regions...

here, it's even on Kotaku - Wed Jul 16 2008
http://kotaku.com/5026033/tretton-says-no-...coming-to-japan
and some of the reasoning behind the info, Jul 29 2008
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/wada...atform-partners

[gAm3 Fr3aQu3]

W...T...F...!? (Not that it matters to me anyways)
It just doesn't make sense. Why release it in USA, mainland Asia, and Europe(?...not sure)... and then leave out Japan? Unless the Asian version has Jap audio/subs and it's NTSC region free (not sure if 360 is region free like ps3), then i guess the move is somewhat ok.

[eduardor2k]

W...T...F...!? (Not that it matters to me anyways)
It just doesn't make sense. Why release it in USA, mainland Asia, and Europe(?...not sure)... and then leave out Japan? Unless the Asian version has Jap audio/subs and it's NTSC region free (not sure if 360 is region free like ps3), then i guess the move is somewhat ok.

Sony Exclusivity, anyone?

[tracy2420]

It just doesn't make sense. Why release it in USA, mainland Asia, and Europe(?...not sure)... and then leave out Japan?

So people would buy it for the PS3...