News Update on 14th July 2008
From 1up.com
FF XIII COMING TO XBOX 360!!!!

Yes, Final Fantasy XIII is coming to the Xbox 360. In fact, not only is it coming, but the 360 version is slated for simultaneous American and European launch alongside the PlayStation 3 release. Sony fans no doubt feel betrayed; Microsoft groupies have something to mitigate the bitter banality of the company's E3 press conference. Discussion threads will burn bitterly into the night on forums across the Internet. E3 is smaller this year, but it still offers great conversation pieces.

But is this new twist in the long-running FFXIII saga really surprising? The writing was on the wall at this year's Game Developers Conference when Square Enix announced its multiplatform Crystal Tools development environment. Designed to facilitate the simultaneous creation of games for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (and Wii, to a lesser extent), Crystal Tools mostly served to paint a clearer picture of the schizophrenic divide between the company's two very different halves. Western-focused games like The Lost Remnant come from the Enix portion of the corporation, which means it's being developed by an external studio on Unreal Engine 3. Crystal Tools appears to have been created exclusively for the use of Square's internal teams, for the creation of games with the self-described "Square style," that elusive mix of cutting-edge technology and beautiful-yet-angst-ridden characters struggling to simultaneously save the world and emote. At the moment, Square's known, internal current-gen projects boil down to FFXIII, its spin-off, and a mysterious massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Coupled with the rising costs of game development and the fact that nothing substantial has been revealed of FFXIII since its debut at E3 2006 more than two years ago, the subtext of Crystal Tools should've been obvious: FFXIII was destined to go multiplatform, if only to cut the company's losses.

Immediately after Microsoft revealed the news of the game's new platform destination, Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto and Yoshinori Kitase (a corporate executive and FFXIII's producer, respectively) met with the press for a question-and-answer session regarding the game. The actual substance of the press conference was expectedly lacking; Square Enix's intentions for E3 clearly began and ended with announcing the game's move to Xbox 360. New details on things like "gameplay" and "characters" won't appear until the company's big Final Fantasy event next month in Tokyo. Still, the subtext was every bit as enlightening as the details we were given.

Perhaps most notably, FFXIII's move to 360 is exclusively a development for the West. "The Japanese plans for 360 haven't changed," said Hashimoto. "We considered the situation, and we would like to provide the game to as many fans as possible given the spread of the hardware." As the Xbox 360 is extremely popular in the West and practically a nonentity in Japan, the split decision makes sense. Furthermore, the migration to 360 is clearly a recent decision. According to Hashimoto, development has yet to begin in earnest for Microsoft's console. "We're ready to start developing FFXIII for 360," he said. "First, we will complete the game for PS3 in Japan, then begin localization for America and Europe while developing the 360 version simultaneously. The PS3 and 360 versions will be released at the same time outside of Japan ? although, due to language and other conditions, the game may not be released simultaneously across territories."

In short, the series' core market -- Japanese RPG fans, who have a long history of loyalty to Sony platforms -- will be catered to first and foremost. Hashimoto promises the company will do its best to bring the localized versions of the game to market more quickly than previous FF games, which have often taken nine or 10 months to hit the U.S. -- and even longer in Europe. Good intentions notwithstanding, this essentially makes cross-platform development in Crystal Tools a function of localization. It will be interesting to see if Square takes this approach with future releases or if it's simply a side effect of the fairly recent decision to take FFXIII to 360. And Square has yet to determine its plan for other Asian markets, where the console industry lacks the clear-cut distinctions that characterize Japan and the West.

One gets the impression that FFXIII's multiplatform plans are an experiment -- the less charitable might even suspect the company is groping in the dark. Hashimoto freely admitted that he doesn't know how this shared-platform approach will work out. "We want to ask your opinion," he said. "We've just made the announcement [of the 360 version], and now we'll begin to research the market. Further decisions will be made after some research."

The company's in the dark even on technical considerations. "The content will be the same on both platforms," said Kitase. "However, we have yet to determine how many discs will be required for the 360 version. We'll have to consider the differences between formats. Currently the game is being built on PC, where it's actually functional. We're still focusing on making it work on PS3, so it's difficult to know how long the process of taking it to 360 will take."

But don't despair, Final Fantasy fans; the conference wasn't all cautious no-comments and bad news. The move to Crystal Tools seems to be serving a dual purpose; not only will FFXIII be appearing on 360, but the development process has reportedly sped up. "Now that we're developing on a PC base, the pace is going a bit faster," Kitase said. "We haven't introduced new footage of the game, but we should be able to show something new in the near future."

For the time being, though, FFXIII remains nothing more than a very pretty prerendered trailer. With luck, or at least a little more openness on Square's part, we'll have more concrete details to report soon.













News Update on 19th June 2008
Square Enix has confirmed to VG247 this afternoon that Final Fantasy XIII will appear at E3 this year.

“There’s going to be more things happening for XIII at E3,” said a rep. “That’s all I can say at the moment. And throughout the year there’s more things planned as well, which should shed more light on the release timings.”

The news comes after a story saying FF Versus XIII had been put on hold to assist in the development of FFXIII was proven to be incorrect.

Confirmation the game will show colours at the show will come as great relief both to fans and Sony alike. Big trailer megaton for the press conference, please.



credit :http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/19/final-fantasy-xiii-confirmed-for-e3-dating-hint-possible/




News Update on 18th June 2008
-According to the newest volume of Japanese Prestigious Game magazine Famitsu,
Square Enix will be holding a game conference, titled ' DK Σ 3713 '

-In the game conference will be held on 2nd and 3rd of August 2008 , in the summer of Japan.

-The line up for the events will be the following, however MAJOR FOCUS will be given on the upcoming
title Final Fantasy 13 ( Playstation 3 Exclusive )


Speculation from the internet fans /gamers : the party code name ' DK Σ 3713 ' is suppose to symbolize the first capital of the games that will be showed in the party , D = Dissidia FF, K = Kingdom Hearts , Sigma = the upcoming RPG for NDS , 13 = FF 13 Compilation , 7 = FF 7 A.C blu-ray

The lineup for the event is as follows:

「FABULA NOVA CRYSTALLIS FINAL FANTASY」シリーズ

* ・FINAL FANTASY XIII (PLAYSTATION® 3)
* ・FINAL FANTASY Agito XIII (Mobile)
* ・FINAL FANTASY Versus XIII (PLAYSTATION® 3)

「KINGDOM HEARTS」シリーズ

* ・KINGDOM HEARTS Coded (Mobile)
* ・KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 Days (ニンテンドー DS®)
* ・KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep (PSP®)

DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY (PSP®)
The 3rd Birthday (Mobile)
シグマ ハーモニクス (ニンテンドー DS®)
FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE (Blu-ray)

The trailers are owesome.
Is the reason i want ps3 other than MGS4

More new trailers URL in AVI this time



http://finalfantasyversusxiii.net/2007/12/...s-released.html

Superb trailers and definitely makes you wanna get a ps3 right away. Anyways, interesting tidbit - to me at least, i noticed in ff 13 versus when the main character stabs one of the soldiers and blood can be seen which i find it surprising considering the ff series had been quite mild on the violence part but nonetheless awesome trailer

Nomura is going to bring FF to another level

FF13 + MSG4 = Reason to buy PS3

when it release out man , i wait alredy 1 year ++ , want die alredy la.....T.T

2009. nice Square Enix

what 2009???? zzzzzzzzzzz damn it .....

2009.....nvm ler
Anyway the trailers are sure sweet

if 2009 for eng edition i dont mind...i am not even surprised if it got delayed til 2010..... dont forget FFXII which was delayed for 2 years...

they are still on the way to fully grasp the Cell BE programming concept. And being one of the few PS3 exclusives, they are stressed for now. But if it only come out in 2009 in Japan, which means only until early 2010 would there be english version... that's too long

what would they gonna slot in during the 2007-2010 gap?

anyway, hope PS3 could have FSAA in 1080p then

i think i read somewhere on wiki that PS3 using the Quinconox thingy, whatever that is. suppose to reduce jaggies.

wait, or was it the 360 lupa ler.

i would rather have it late than suxs. but aiyo, 2010 for an english version. cant they just translate it while developing and include english sub? leceh lah like this.

cant lah...

usually in US they will have diferent voice overs

SE wants it to be specific... english ver speak english, japan talk in japanese, no cross over hybrid

afaik, ps3 punye G70 is inferior to X360's Ati R500/600 based GPU. But they still can use some programming tricks to overcome jagginess in ps3

hopefully. like the ps2 last time oso same wat, earlier games all the jaggies, aiyo.

but now oso not bad lah. that game Uncharted look so damn good.

ff13 + mgs = must buy ps3. but no money now to get.

U don't have to get the PS3 now do you?

if the eng version is slated for a 2010 release, damn...old adi me XD

i will get jp 1st than only eng. than get the international version if its available.

btw, the trailer not eng version meh? if i didnt remember wrg, the old trailer was jp version battle menus.

There were rumors that it is possible they are gonna release the US + JAP version at the same time, but it is rumors afterall.

We will wait for more details in the upcoming S.E Jump Fiesta in Japan.

i think end of 2008 got english liao kua

IMO FFXIII is not coming so quick because the text, the VAs, and those stuffs. Anyway 2009/2010 is fine for me, but myself got no money to buy PS3 also Oh Killzone II and UT3

u one year save rm500, 3 yrs later alrdy got rm1500 lah
that time ps3 should be around rm1k only

Youtube Version:





1080p HD in MP4 with Enhanced Audio:

http://files.filefront.com/Versus1080m4v/;...;/fileinfo.html

http://files.filefront.com/FFXIII+Trailer+...;/fileinfo.html

thank ninja baru aku nak carik letak dalama aku nyer PS3...

Edit:

Tak leh DL la link ko bagi.. damn....

erkk.. that link got problem.. have to find another link.. the website, ff-xiii.net down pulak..

adeiii semangat aku DL... hampeh...

Ko dah try download ke? Coz mine got error.

got error la.. that why i need other link.. if u got la... coz.. want to bakar my friend with this new trailer...

n i tot my mozilla got problem... been trying for the last 20minutes...

hahahaa... andy pun kena con.. let tembak ninja...

yeahlo....n i tot mod can be trusted...... ....mod penipu.....

.. ninja dah kena CHOP.... muahahahaa..

/me snipe Ninja dari hartamas.. hope kena head shot...

Aku rasa game final fantasy yang generasi baru ni kurang menarik macam dulu la (Habis aku kena ban pas ni).Final fantasy 3,7 dan lain2 layan.Game Chrono Trigger untuk Super Nes best.Kenangan silam yang indah.Tapi game RPG/action adventure yang paling best sudah semestinya Zelda:Ocarina of Time untuk Nintendo 64

i play all.... (not all. )..

FF1 - 6 = 1 kali
FF7 = More than 5 kali
FF8 = same
FF9 = more than 2 kali
FF10 = More than 10 times.. game paling aku suka
FF10-2 = play 2 times only
FF11 = Online ( hampeh tak de version 360 asian)
FF12 = More than 2 times
FF13 = Waiting..

So far FF series is the best dont care la.. sapa buat or how many series... i will play it..

Aku tak main semua pun. 3,7 dan 10/10-2.Tu je.Game RPG lain tak layan?Suikoden ke?Apa lagi ye?

anyway aku memang kaki RPG... Blue Dragon, FF series, Xenosaga semua layan... but Zelda.. i play half way.. pastu tinggal.. donno why la.. dont like to much that series... ....

Shadowhearts is oso one of the better RPG series....eh..we all OT oledi......

woi, kenot dl one ar...

man what awesome trailerssssssssss... hmm no hint of what the gameplay in Versus is like though..
Man, the future of PS3 is certainly bright.. no more social life when these games come out.. hell right now also social life is limited..especially when i get my hands on UT
But FF! I remember how FF7 sucked my life right in..someore right before PMR..

Considering is made by the team who did kingdom hearts series, probably is going to be somewhat of a action rpg. Nomura did comment on the gameplay stating it will be a much more realistic kingdom hearts though i'm not sure how to perceive the realistic part but i guess the additional of blood in the game might be one of them

OMG, FFXIII battle systems are in real time? BTW FFXIII and FF VS XIII
does related each other? From the trailers it is different. Fortunately I still have Ar Tonelico II, if not kena racun already. FFXII tak habis lagi because of bad cd.

Yeap saw some blood here.

No they're not related to one another but they do take place in the same universe

but late 2009 or earlier 2010.. we can play both title.. damn longggggggggggggggggggggggggg wei... cannot tahan... but if the game.. veryx1000 good. i dont mind waiting...

Ah the KH series.. hmm that would be cool then.. they've seemed to pull it off quite well with the KH series so no doubt this would be a blast too!
And yeah.. blood! that's def some kinda major change.. guess the tones set for this one is more serious?

2009 2010??????????? PS4 out aredi or not?

lol. considering ps2 lasted for more than 10 years.. i doubt

I think FFXIII gameplay style is something like Crisis Core:FFVII. A little bit of action RPG style mix with classic RPG game.

Turn based FTW.. still like FF10 combat system.. donno why...

because it's more technical and requires more on planning

Sony said that PS3 will last for at least 10 years. PS3 launched in 2006, so we wouldn't see PS4 until at least after 2016.



PS2 lasted for more than 10 years? PS2 was launched in 2000, and now is 2007. Where got more than 10 years?