Comments on: Final Fantasy is a “PlayStation franchise”

By: Shai

Shai — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:17:03 +0000

You’re like that nasally guy who wanted everyone to boycott XIII’s release, when he found out XIII was going to be Multi-platform. Final Fantasy started out with Nintendo, and despite the switch over to Playstation for VII’s initial release, Square never really let FF be a Playstation Exclusive.
If you forgot, VII and VIII were also released for PC, and they continued to make games for other systems. Even if you claim that Crystal Chronicles doesn’t count, the Numbered Franchise was being re-released for every Nintendo handheld, some even on the Wonderswan, and rightly so. Why should Square limit themselves to one company, when the fans of their games span so many different consoled households?
What you are saying Square was so wrong to do is exactly what happened in ’97 to everyone who expected VII on the N64.
Sure, that had the bonus of more space branched over a series of discs, but you aren’t seriously so shortsighted as to not realize Square did it for the MONEY? They’re a company. They realize they have enough fans to lose a few pretentious losers who’re all uppity about being special, especially when they add in all the new fans from the system crossover.
You just didn’t feel that way in ’97 because you were in Microsoft’s position back then. Besides. This has been coming since XI branched to 360, and I don’t remember there being a huge uproar about that.

If it matters to anyone who will inevitably flame this, I own a PS3, but don’t feel those unfortunate enough to own a 360 should miss out on this amazing game.

By: taus90

taus90 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:32 +0000

I am still not buying this game, but i would love to see a video of this event sounds super fun. and the way i see it SE needs to some serious damage repair with Playstation fans, as the sales and pre-order numbers are out, i mean there is no use at all of releasing future games on XB360 (KH3)

By: WonsAuto

WonsAuto — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:51:06 +0000

@HeyAndy – FFVII would’ve been in 3D regardless. There’s an N64 FF tech demo that Square released before announcing that they were moving to PlayStation- look it up.

Either way, the move from Nintendo to Sony was purely from a technical standpoint- there’s no way the game could have been as ambitious on a cart-based system. The move from PS-exclusive to multiplat was purely business.

By: HeyAndy

HeyAndy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:36:26 +0000

Steve,

Yes, it was a nintendo franchise. But would you rather have a 2d based final fantasy VII than a 3d one if final fantasy didn’t switch from one brand to another?

By: StEvE

StEvE — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:33:09 +0000

the Final Fantasy franchise was origanally a nintendo franchise but the writer didn’t put much emphasis on that now did he…

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By: VofEscaflowne

VofEscaflowne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:46 +0000

@HeyAndy

Because up until yesterday, Japan was the only one that had the game and in that region, there is no 360 version. Obviously the PS3 will outsell the 360 version worldwide but in the US, it’ll be the way to see how well each version is doing. NPD sales as far as I know doesn’t include sales made in Canada.

By: HeyAndy

HeyAndy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:24:58 +0000

Vof,

Instead of looking at npd sales, why not look at worldwide sales? America is not the whole market. Its only part of it.

By: VofEscaflowne

VofEscaflowne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:19:47 +0000

@The Dean

Oh yeah, Japan is definitely a huge deciding factor worldwide, haha. No question there. I knew that the game was near the top of the list on Amazon’s best selling items and that the 360 version was pretty low in comparison. Should still be interesting once the NPD sales data comes out, if just for the 360 fans bitching and moaning :p

By: The Dean

The Dean — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:31:16 +0000

@VofE

PlayStation 3 pre-orders were outnumbering 360 by like a margin of 3:1, lol. Add on top of that the 1.5+ Million copies already sold for the PS3 in Japan and it’s pretty much a slaughter — especially after the trash talk Aaron Greenberg did about how 13 was going to sell more on the 360 than PS3, lol.