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Square's 1/18 Premiere Conference Detailed [Versus, Agito, KH3D, KHBBS:FM, Dissidia]

brandonh83 said:
I'll go ahead and say that I do think Versus XIII will have a different name. It's always struck me as a working title.
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Generally, a product will have its real title for a longer period of its development than its 'working title.'

So if you're right, I don't even want to think about how much longer it'll be.
 
badcrumble said:
Generally, a product will have its real title for a longer period of its development than its 'working title.'

So if you're right, I don't even want to think about how much longer it'll be.
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Final Fantasy Versus XIII: The adventures of Noctis and his chums who form a charming bromance before defeating the opposing enemy nation using the power of the crystal Type 0.
 
I'm still waiting on the Last Remnant for PS3 SE!!

It will be great to see some more Versus and Agito gameplay. Shame I start work the second the thing starts though (GMT time). Ah well.
 
Ikkarus said:
I'm still waiting on the Last Remnant for PS3 SE!!

It will be great to see some more Versus and Agito gameplay. Shame I start work the second the thing starts though (GMT time). Ah well.
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Might want to give up on that. It's long dead.
 
DieH@rd said:
So, there is 2 events? One in 1h 20mins and another one in 10+ hours?
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duckroll said:
To clarify, the event being shown twice. The live streaming event is only for the second showing, and not the first one. So...

Show without streaming starts at:

Japan: 6:00pm
Western US: 1:00am
Eastern US: 4:00am
Brazil east: 7:00am
GMT: 9:00am
Germany: 10:00am

Live streaming event start at:

Japan: 8:00pm
Western US: 3:00am
Eastern US: 6:00am
Brazil east: 9:00am
GMT: 11:00am
Germany: 12:00pm

A thread will be created about an hour before the event starts with all the information in it, including any potential liveblogs announced by tomorrow.
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Why and when has the belief that Versus will come to 360 gone from "no way" to "pretty likely" in this time frame? SE didn't say squat to implicate that AFAIK
 
Teetris said:
Why and when has the belief that Versus will come to 360 gone from "no way" to "pretty likely" in this time frame? SE didn't say squat to implicate that AFAIK
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They didn't say anything about XIII going multi-platform, I believe.
 
Teetris said:
Why and when has the belief that Versus will come to 360 gone from "no way" to "pretty likely" in this time frame? SE didn't say squat to implicate that AFAIK
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It's been "pretty likely" since the day they announced FFXIII for 360.
 
Teetris said:
Why and when has the belief that Versus will come to 360 gone from "no way" to "pretty likely" in this time frame? SE didn't say squat to implicate that AFAIK
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Nomuras tweet from a few months ago, it's pretty much a certainty after that.
 
Teetris said:
Why and when has the belief that Versus will come to 360 gone from "no way" to "pretty likely" in this time frame? SE didn't say squat to implicate that AFAIK
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Mostly common sense.
Big exclusives on HD consoles don't exist anymore. And FFXIII was multiplatform.

I'll be a happy gamer if that ends being real, considering I only have access to my 360 at the moment and even the downgraded FFXIII version was perfectly playable.
 
Kagari said:
Famitsu usually doesn't leak until tomorrow night.
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Usually, yes. But when there's a conference of some sort on Tuesday, and Famitsu has the scoop on the details, it usually leaks anyway. But considering how Jump had nothing this week, it's possible all coverage of the event will be in magazines only next week.
 
jett said:
They should rename it to something. FFXIIIVersus is such a stupid title.
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It's FF Versus XIII not FF XIII Versus, it's 'in opposition to XIII' not 'XIII opposition'.

I'm not sure it's stupid, I think it's a marketing stumbling block though. But SE's naming history is fairly insane.
 
I just hope that Versus will be released this December in Japan.
But FF Versus XIII is a completely stupid and nonsensical name.
 
Square-Enix's plan is to make us forget how numbers work and that they go in a certain order, after which they will drain us of our precious bodily fluids.
 
Galvanise_ said:
Apparently there are rumours on Chinese forums that SE will be announcing two 360 exclusives.

Probably bullshit, but it would probably not be a wise move.
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Wouldnt surprise me if true.

Wada has made done alot of questionable moves this gen while fucking over Sony for god knows what reason. I can acknowledge that the 360s fanbase has JRPG fans, but theres a far large presence on the PS3 (mostly thanks to the asian region).

Hes the japanese equavelent of Bobby Kotick. He most likely acts and relys heavily on getting quick cash than actually releasing quality software. SE should be thankful they still house talented developers. Otherwise SE would be going on a downward spiral.
 
Interestingly, in a PlayStation Blog reply, Sid Shuman replied to:

What happened to Final Fantasy 13 Versus?
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with:

Sid Shuman said:
Just a quick update here that we have another wave of games to add to this list in the next week or two, so stay tuned.
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Seeing as the Blog post is in reference to PS3 exclusives, this conference falls in the time frame he stated. Sort of implies Versus is staying exclusive.

That or SE will announce something else like Grandia 4.
 
I must be the only person who thinks it'll stay as an exclusive. I just don't think Microsoft would want it to be honest. That doesn't seem to be their direction anymore.
 
Suzzopher said:
I must be the only person who thinks it'll stay as an exclusive. I just don't think Microsoft would want it to be honest. That doesn't seem to be their direction anymore.
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Agreed.
 
I've commented that it's basically expected at this point that it will be ported (terribly) just by the way square has been operating this generation, but my personal opinion is that I think it will stay exclusive as well.
 
Suzzopher said:
I must be the only person who thinks it'll stay as an exclusive. I just don't think Microsoft would want it to be honest. That doesn't seem to be their direction anymore.
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You have a point.
 
Galvanise_ said:
Seeing as the Blog post is in reference to PS3 exclusives, this conference falls in the time frame he stated. Sort of implies Versus is staying exclusive.

That or SE will announce something else like Grandia 4.
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The thing is, that starts with a thing about how all the list is based on public information, meaning even if they knew Versus wasn't exclusive, they could have still included it in that list if SE had given a 2011 release window.
 
Suzzopher said:
I must be the only person who thinks it'll stay as an exclusive. I just don't think Microsoft would want it to be honest. That doesn't seem to be their direction anymore.
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There's a diference between "not wanting it" and "not caring enough", and I don't think it will need to much of a push to get Versus in 360.
 
Excuse my ignorance for not going through this thread, but is there going to be a stream of this, or just live blogging. Do we have a time??
 
H_Prestige said:
Why the heck would MS say no to a big FF game for their platform?
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Because they are fine without it. Also I think it's generally easier for square to just make the one version get it done with and move on.
 
H_Prestige said:
Why the heck would MS say no to a big FF game for their platform?

It's up to SE if they want it on 360 or not.
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How do they know this will return "big FF game" numbers?

SE got lucky with XIII because MS completely funded their US advertising.
 
H_Prestige said:
What exclusive deal?
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Sony had exclusive deals with a lot of publishers for several games but the publishers negotiated their way out of the deals for a variety of reasons.

E.g. Tekken, Final Fantasy, GTA (timed) etc.

Sony tend to make trades. They got Agent for GTA timed exclusivity for example.

Zoe said:
SE got lucky with XIII because MS completely funded their US advertising.
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. . .and EU.
 
Relaxed Muscle said:
There's a diference between "not wanting it" and "not caring enough", and I don't think it will need to much of a push to get Versus in 360.
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But who is this attracting to the 360? That is why Microsoft were grabbing exclusives away from Sony left, right and centre. FFXIII was a push toward that fan section, yet more people bought it on PS3 and PS3 had a sales spike(in Europe at least). It makes sense for SE to do another quick and dirty port to maximise profits though.
 
StuBurns said:
It's not 'saying no', it's fronting the cash to buy them out of their exclusive deal.
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Yeah, MS can't put a few bucks for marketing. :\

Square is making money putting Versus on the 360, it wouldn't need that much MS effort to convince Square, they proven the platform is succesful.
 
Zoe said:
How do they know this will return "big FF game" numbers?

SE got lucky with XIII because MS completely funded their US advertising.
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Are you implying that MS would not profit if Versus were on 360?

It's the next big blockbuster from SE. Even if it's less than FFXIII, it will several million guaranteed.
 
Relaxed Muscle said:
Yeah, MS can't put a few bucks for marketing. :\

Square is making money putting Versus on the 360, it wouldn't need that much MS effort to convince Square, they proven the platform is succesful.
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If there is an exclusive contract, MS could buy them out of it, but who says they care enough to do so? FFXIII was a big deal in terms of format war, FFVersusXIII isn't. Even if MS still cared about hardcore games, and they don't.
 
H_Prestige said:
Are you implying that MS would not profit if Versus were on 360?

It's the next big blockbuster from SE. Even if it's less than FFXIII, it will several million guaranteed.
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Not on 360, not even close.
 
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