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Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360
An anonymous reader writes "In a stunning change, Square-Enix announced today at Microsoft's E3 press conference that its next iteration in the Final Fantasy series is also coming to Xbox 360." And I just rationalized the PS3 purchase by telling myself that the next FF will require it.
Would you feel better if they gave it a different name? The Final Fantasy games don't follow on from one another, they occasionally have similar themes or side-characters, but that's it.
Think of it more like a branding, like Ferrari or Ford.
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Crystal Tools, originally White Engine, has been a multiplatform development tool. They announced last fall that it was multiplatorm. GDC '08 At the SE presser yesterday it was said that FF13 was being developed on PC, then ported over to both systems. This is SE, I seriously doubt it will be worse on either system. Though, I'm guessing the 360 version will be 3 or 4 discs.
It is also useful if you want to work on the Cell.
It is the cheapest Cell development system you can buy.
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I don't have an HD TV yet, but will probably get one next year (assuming I can convince the wife, even though there's "nothing wrong" with our 3 year old SD TV). Blu-Ray won the war, I can still play them on my SD TV with the PS3, and I don't want to be thinking "crap I could have got this DVD on Blu-Ray instead" when I do upgrade.
I can play videos remotely off MythTV/MythVideo, and any other upnp media servers.
I can play most of my PS2 games on it (80GB model) - only one didn't work, so I'm replacing a device rather than adding one.
Free online play.
The blu-ray player software is updated to make use of new features.
30 years of stifling innovation and screwing over consumers VS a rootkit. Hmm, yeah, Microsoft sucks worse. Not to mention it was their insecure OS that got rootkited when a CD was inserted.
During the format wars, Sony updated the Blu-Ray version by adding new features; new features that made new Blu-Ray discs incompatible with older players.
Uh, no. No, they didn't. The spec was published before the PS3 was even released. The interim specification with missing features was published at the request of the other Blu-Ray manufactures, not Sony, and the new disks are still 100% compatible with those old players.
Well put.
Another point you forgot to mention, but which is just as important in my opinion, is the noise level. The PS3 is very quiet, almost silent in fact, which is of paramount importance when you're watching media in my opinion.
Taking nothing away from the Xbox 360 as a games console but it just doesn't hold a candle to the PS3 as a media centre. You just can't live with the noise it makes, unless your standards are already so low to begin with.
PS3 + Bluray + 1080p screen + decent audio kit = unrivalled in the home.
That and the fact that FF is really not a franchise for casual gamers... it doesn't really cater to the Wii audience regardless of how large that audience is.
As of March 31, 2008, Twilight Princess sold 4.52 million copies on the Wii.
Don't forget about God of War 3 and Team ICO's next project, not to mention messing with Linux. There's still good reason to own a PS3 besides movies.
I like to think of online DRM as something akin to a college -- you pay for lessons until you learn something.
It does when you're trying to adapt complex graphics originally designed to push the limits of the PS3. "Pleasing" and "Jaw Dropping" are two different things, and FF typically goes after the latter. Adapting the game to the 360 is a matter of tweaking the engine a bit. Adapting the game for the Wii is a matter of completely overhauling the graphics and engine to run on slower hardware.
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You're confusing upconvert and upscaling. Native 1080p televisions (unless stated otherwise) *scale* to 1080p just so it can display it. Scaling is basically an enlargement process. Upconverting however is different. It's a processing algorithm that makes the new bigger picture much more clear than if it were simply upscaled.
a bad reference, but the first one I found
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At yesterday's E3 announcement from Microsoft, the autumn update for the 360 was unveiled. One of the new features is the optional ability to install your games to the hard drive for fast loading times and no disc switching (if it's a multiple-disc game). You still need to insert the primary disc for the game, to prove you own it, but once it's verified the disc is in the drive it won't spin it up at all and will just read from the disk.
The 360 Elite comes with a 120GB drive. I presume (read: hope) Premium and Core consoles can be fitted with this drive too.
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