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Fallout 3, RE 5 in 2008, Final Fantasy 360 Never

Posted by Zonk on from the zombies-and-radiation-are-so-cheery dept.

In addition to the truly excellent trailer, yesterday Bethesda Softworks let slip the platforms on which Fallout 3 will be playable. CVG reports on an article in the upcoming issue of Game Informer magazine, which describes some of the gameplay and states the title will be on offer for the PC, 360, and PlayStation 3 sometime in Fall of 2008. Meanwhile, Eurogamer is reporting that Capcom won't be letting Resident Evil 5 out of the holding pen until at least April of next year. For now they're relying on the Wii port of the title and other offerings to see them through the year. Finally, if you were hoping to play Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360, you'll be waiting a long time. IGN has word that there are no plans for any FF games on Microsoft's console.

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  1. Fallout 3 Design Documents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you're into Fallout 3, don't miss the original Fallout 3 Van Buren design documents. Cool stuff. Going to be interesting to see if anything survives from there.

  2. No FF on Xbox360 by Mortanius · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does it really surprise anyone though? FF is huge (perhaps as an understatement) in Japan where Microsoft has a pretty tiny share. Releasing exclusively would be suicide, and though there is a large market in the US, I would expect there's enough PS3 owners and enough would-be PS3 owners on the fence that would pick up a PS3 because of FF that it wouldn't necessarily be worth the added effort to port to xbox.

    And please God, don't let them contract out to another company to do a half-assed port. :-P

    1. Re:No FF on Xbox360 by Conception · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I think in general people forget something...

      "Sony Invests in Square / Square Not Exclusive To Sony

      Sony Corp it will invest 14.9 billion yen in capital to Square Co Ltd. The investment will give Sony an 18% stake in Square. Sony does not intend to prevent Square from contributing games to rival game makers such as Nintendo Co Ltd or Microsoft Corp, a SONY spokeswoman said. - Source Reuters.

      "We are not exclusive to Sony, because of this deal." said Hisashi Suzuki, Square's president."

      Sony owns a large part of Square. Sony needs to be doing -really- badly before Square starts helping out Sony's biggest game competitor.

    2. Re:No FF on Xbox360 by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I would. FF has always been about the glitz, and if anyone is going to push the limits of the PS3 and HD/BluRay it will be Square. It would be hard to call any FF a "casual" game, so they've got a solid core of hardcore fans on the PS3 waiting for the next installment. Look for the PS3 version as the lead platform, with a solid port to the Wii. (Using the Wiimote might actually liven up some of the battles, and would be an easy and great way to add something to the game without redesigning it from scratch.)

  3. Re:Fallout 3 Gameplay? by Aladrin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    'Blank page' doesn't mean 'never', it just means 'no current plans'... That's about a minimum of a year, if they decide to do a port, or 3 years if they decide to innovate. Minimum, mind. Not average or mean.

    Nintendo had been the sole Final Fantasy Console for years when Sony stepped in and took it. Now Nintendo has FF titles again (weak ones, but still...) so there's nothing stopping them from doing the 360. They are probably fishing for a big check from everyone's favorite monopoly first.

    --
    "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
  4. Re:Who cares about Final Fantasy anymore? by DrEldarion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... and MMORPGs are just MUDs with graphics, and MUDs are just RPGs that are text-only and online, and then we're back to the single-player RPG again. It's all a big loop, and everything is derivative of everything else. Saying a game sucks because it's too similar to other games is like saying a story sucks because it's similar to stories that have been written hundreds of years ago. Sure, you may not LIKE it, but you can't judge something solely on originality, because there really is very little of it in anything.