I saw some discussion of this in the E3 thread, but I thought I’d start one focused on the topic. Overall, I would have gone with the 360 in hindsight. The playstation is more expensive, has fewer meaningful exclusives, and just feels like a niche product. But I can’t blame square enix. Money talks.
What is the final fantasy news?
FF13 will be on XBox 360 as well as PS3.
Ahh. Then to the OP, no that wouldn’t change my getting a PS3 or not. I don’t have one yet but this wouldn’t affect my decision.
FFvs13, one of the two companion games, however, is PS3 exclusive. The other companion game, the name of which I can’t remember, will be mobile phone exclusive (and likely Japan-exclusive, like previous mobile-phone FFs).
So, the only way this has effected my decision to get a PS3 at all is to confirm that it is, indeed, the system I will be getting.
I’m sorry, I don’t follow a word of what you just said there.
Does the 360 have a Blu-Ray player yet?
I have a gaming PC too, so the PS3 is a better accompaniment IMO.
? I thought what I said was pretty much straightforward. FF13 has 2 companion games, FFvs13 and FF Agito 13. vs is PS3 exclusive, Agito is exclusive to mobile phones.
Previous mobile phone FF games - Before Crisis: FFVII and FF IV the After - have only been released in Japan, so one asumes Agito will be exclusive to Japan as well.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII is exclusive to the PS3 right now. When pressed on it, Square-Enix executives said that nothing had been decided yet because the game was so far out. It may come to the 360, but I would guess S-E is waiting to see how FF13 sales go before making a firm decision.
And this discussion is rather moot as FF Versus 13 probably won’t be out until 2011 anyway.
I don’t understand this logic. The Xbox is a Microsoft product and has the best integration with Windows based PCs of any of the consoles. Additionally, the primary upside to the PS3 is that it has the most powerful processing and graphics power, but if you have a gaming rig that’s simply redundant. Any game that you’d play on the PS3 would most likely be improved by playing it on a cutting edge gaming PC. In my estimation a PS3 should replace a high-end gaming rig, not compliment it. The 360, while still somewhat redundant, would at least offer a larger game library and better integration as a media extender, online gaming box, and capability as a Netflix portal to better justify it’s existence alongside a high end PC.
I know nothing about mobile phone games with Final Fantasy.
My confusion starts here.
By that time we’ll be talking about how the PS4 is a dismal failure.
My point exactly. Talking about Final Fantasy Versus XIII is a bit… we’ll say premature… when Final Fantasy XIII is still a full year (or two) away.
Doesn’t affect me. I can’t wait to play FFXIII, but I sure as hell didn’t buy a PS3 2 years early just for that one game.
I bought it for one other game. 
(Rock Band)
Before I bought the PS3 I compared the games on each system. The only ones I wanted to play on the Xbox were already on the PC while the PS3 had a couple of games that were never going to port over. I have no interest in FPS games; if the Xbox had a decent RPG it might have swung things. All it had was Oblivion, which I already owned for the PC.
I also wanted a HD player and Blu-Ray had a better catalogue at the time. Now that HD DVD has kicked the bucket I am more happy with my choice than ever.
I live in the UK. We don’t have Netflix. Besides, I already have a subscription to Love Film.
All valid reasons for preferring the PS3, however it seems that having a gaming PC had little to do with it. You just liked the PS3 games better. I think the only reason the XBox would have more ports to the PC is because it has a bigger library. It’d be interesting too see which system has the most exclusive titles and which has the most PC ports by percentage.
Unless I’m seriously mistaken, Rock Band isn’t ps3 exclusive, no?
I think he meant that the PS3 complemented his gaming PC more than a 360 would. While the 360’s media connection is great - I should know, I have one set up in my livingroom - the PS3 has a Blu-Ray drive for watching movies, something the 360 will probably never have. And the HD DVD drive was slated for wide PC releases, so he’d effectively be getting the best of both worlds.
On the second point, most Microsoft (inhouse) releases are PC/360. Very few inhouse games are not ported or secondarily developed for the PC. (While Halo 3 might be a few months to a year away, most pure-PC-gamers were never that exited about it) So if the OP was a previous PC gamer like myself, it made sense to get the PS3 which had the catalogue of games furthest divorced from the PC. Which is a good idea in theory, but frankly the PS3 has such a minor catalogue that it’s an almost academic point. Only MGS4 and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune are now PS3 exclusive Top 10s.
- Guku,
Proud owner of gaming grade PC, a 360 and a PS3, lastly for which he justified the $1000 price tag by buying a HD Tv and the God of War games. And life was good.
Yeah, I get that. Gaining a Blu-Ray is a reason to get a PS3 but it doesn’t really have anything to do with having a PC or not. Since Blu-Ray players are available for the PC (and perhaps someday will be notably cheaper than a dedicated Blu-Ray player) it could be argued that having a PC makes getting a PS3 less vital for Blu-Ray fans.
I realize I’m essentially being pedantic at this point, but it’s your final point that initially struck me. The PS3s catalog is so minor that the “exclusive” aspect is negligible and essentially identical to the 360 unless one particular game grabs you.
His initial comment about the PS3 pairing with a gaming PC had me wondering if I was missing some fundamental detail about the PS3.
Yup, I’m with you. (My perspective was that since the HD-DVD format might be going to win, it would be pushed through for the PC quickly enough and I could watch HD movies that way, while the Blu-Ray was considerably later releasing both the drive and the support for it, so I got a PS3 “to play both sides”, so to speak. And Sony wouldn’t have discontinued the BR as a game disc even if it’d lost the media format war for the movies.)
At that time, I was enticed by Assassin’s Creed, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Final Fantasy X - both at that point promised a 2007 PS3 exclusive release date. Well, Assassin’s Creed turned out to be a good game let down by some retarded design decisions (unskippable cutscenes, lack of character and repetetive combat), Final Fantasy jumped the barbed wire between the camps and . . . Well, I can’t really say anything about MGS4; it’s pretty brilliant. I also think GTAIV was PS3-exclusive, back then.