Microsoft's E3 presentation this evening (European time) has provided at least one minor shock. That is that Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 "should" release on the same day and date as the PS3 version. This is according to Square Enix's president, Yoichi Wada.
This finally resolves the mystery of why Square was not going to ship the game in fiscal year 2007/2008 which we reported in May 2007.
The announcement that one of Sony's longest-held and most popular (in its homeland and abroad) third-party relationships was going to become more 'open' came at the end of a lacklustre presentation - the analysis of which we will bring you in due course.
In short you can expect no new hardware - bar motion-sensing microphones for the LIPS karaoke game. You can expect a tarted-up, 3D GUI with Miis... sorry, avatars, for Xbox Live.
Release dates were also announced for:
Gears of War 2: worldwide on November 7.
Fable 2: to be released in October.
Resident Evil 5: Friday the 13th March 2009 in Europe and North America.
Fallout 3 was given an impressive run-out; and will feature "substantial downloadable content". Talking of which, the DLC for GTA IV was also mentioned by Shane Kim. As we already knew that it would be coming later in the year, the announcement that it would be coming, "later this year" was really no surprise - remember that Take-Two told us all this back in June.
The bulk of the presentation, however, featured a raft of 'casual' gaming plus several Microsoft executives embarrassing themselves with the You're In The Movies application.
One thing we did notice by its omission, however, was mention of Too Human.
This finally resolves the mystery of why Square was not going to ship the game in fiscal year 2007/2008 which we reported in May 2007.
The announcement that one of Sony's longest-held and most popular (in its homeland and abroad) third-party relationships was going to become more 'open' came at the end of a lacklustre presentation - the analysis of which we will bring you in due course.
In short you can expect no new hardware - bar motion-sensing microphones for the LIPS karaoke game. You can expect a tarted-up, 3D GUI with Miis... sorry, avatars, for Xbox Live.
Release dates were also announced for:
Gears of War 2: worldwide on November 7.
Fable 2: to be released in October.
Resident Evil 5: Friday the 13th March 2009 in Europe and North America.
Fallout 3 was given an impressive run-out; and will feature "substantial downloadable content". Talking of which, the DLC for GTA IV was also mentioned by Shane Kim. As we already knew that it would be coming later in the year, the announcement that it would be coming, "later this year" was really no surprise - remember that Take-Two told us all this back in June.
The bulk of the presentation, however, featured a raft of 'casual' gaming plus several Microsoft executives embarrassing themselves with the You're In The Movies application.
One thing we did notice by its omission, however, was mention of Too Human.
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tyrion 14 Jul 2008 19:30
1/6
This really was rumour confirmation time for Microsoft. The only surprises were no motion sensing and FF XIII.
deleted 14 Jul 2008 20:56
2/6
This is really big news, it’s going to be a massive hit to the Sony show tomoz, and after reading various sites and forums I can see a lot and I mean ALOT of hurt Sony fan boys, who`s only attack now is the fact this will ship on multiple disc (unconfirmed but pretty darn obvious), I say well done MS, and those lots and lots of cases of money you left on Squeenix doorstep are worth it.
Gears 2, Resi 5, Fallout 3, Fable 2, Banjo, Lips, a few Square Enix JRPGS, GTA Exclusive Content, New Interface, and Now FFXIII s**t the only thing my PS3 was good for was MGS4 and now I wished I didn’t get it as I can foresee it hitting 360 next year!
No wonder at the beginning of the conference he stated that MS would beat PS3 on sale this gen, with a FFXIII in his back pocket of secrets,
Still no motion controller, unless it was the lips mic?
Gears 2, Resi 5, Fallout 3, Fable 2, Banjo, Lips, a few Square Enix JRPGS, GTA Exclusive Content, New Interface, and Now FFXIII s**t the only thing my PS3 was good for was MGS4 and now I wished I didn’t get it as I can foresee it hitting 360 next year!
No wonder at the beginning of the conference he stated that MS would beat PS3 on sale this gen, with a FFXIII in his back pocket of secrets,
Still no motion controller, unless it was the lips mic?
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tyrion 14 Jul 2008 21:55
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haritori wrote:
No wonder at the beginning of the conference he stated that MS would beat PS3 on sale this gen, with a FFXIII in his back pocket of secrets,
From what we're hearing out of Square Enix, it looks like FF XIII is still exclusive to PS3 in Japan, coming out there first and it's only on 360 in English speaking territories.
PS3 Fanboy has the details for now, but we'll be chasing down European details from Squenix tomorrow.
It's still a shock announcement and a real feather in Microsoft's cap. On the other hand, it was about the only thing they had to say today that we didn't already know, suspect or feel "meh" about.
deleted 14 Jul 2008 22:59
4/6
tyrion wrote:
It's still a shock announcement and a real feather in Microsoft's cap. On the other hand, it was about the only thing they had to say today that we didn't already know, suspect or feel "meh" about.
yes the lack of applause at pre-expected moments was quite funny at times, you could actually hear the injected pauses of complete silenced followed by feel sorry for them claps, lol, but agreed apart from the FF13 there wasnt much else but Fable, Gears and Fallout are now top o my list, like they wernt already.
tyrion 15 Jul 2008 07:22
5/6
haritori wrote:
but Fable, Gears and Fallout are now top o my list, like they wernt already.
Gears looks excellent, the numbers of Locusts on screen is now close to giving Heavenly Sword a run for its money.
I just hope the "meat shield" mechanic isn't this game's answer to the first one's cover system. i.e. you have to use this mechanic to progress.
SuperSaiyan4 15 Jul 2008 07:52
6/6
No one saw this coming!! Have to say best E3 ever! Loved the new look for the Xbox 360 and the avatars, kinda mixes home and Mii's into one imo.
Also Final Fantasy 13 for Xbox 360!!! It seriously cannot get any better!
Looks like now for me the only reason to get a PS3 is for God Of War 3 nothing else.
Best year for gaming looking forward to tons of games!
Tried the Too Human Demo it aint half bad actually I might just still get it.
Also Final Fantasy 13 for Xbox 360!!! It seriously cannot get any better!
Looks like now for me the only reason to get a PS3 is for God Of War 3 nothing else.
Best year for gaming looking forward to tons of games!
Tried the Too Human Demo it aint half bad actually I might just still get it.