Final Fantasy Fans Boo Xbox 360 at London Event

[Croaker42]

Well I might be pissed off as well. If I had blown a ton of cash at a consoles release expecting the norm in brand exclusivity only to find out that I could have played the same game without blowing all the cash.

 

[orangeapples]

I'd be booing too. Not because I hate the idea of making FFXIII cross-platform. I just don't like how the 360 is constantly whoring itself with special edition bundles. There is no more market for your console. Everyone who is considering getting one has it already. Give it up Microsoft. And to the average Joe, the PS3 does everything you can do and MORE. That's probably why they keep whoring themselves out.

 

[DustyDrB]

Good God, what the hell do people care if a game they have access to is now on another system so other people can enjoy it as well. Does this inhibit their fun in any way? No.
If you're one of these kind of people, you're a dick. Plain and simple.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Here's a sequence of events:
- Current gen consoles announced.
- FF fanboys naturally assumed they would still be Sony only.
- FF fanboys queue out the door on release day to buy one of the 2 PS3's every store stocked.
- FFXI ported to 360. Noone really noticed.
- FFXIII announced on 360. People notice.
- FF fanboys bitter about paying £100 more for a console they don't need anymore. Everyone but their or Squares fault. Particularly Microsoft. How dare they let SE develop a game on their console. Arseholes.

Another mystery solved by Phoenix Arrow.

I just don't like how the 360 is constantly whoring itself with special edition bundles..

Oh really? [http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/09/lightning1.jpg] I don't mind if you prefer one console over another for no apparent reason, but lets not lie to ourselves, eh?

 

[Motakikurushi]

I've been a final fantasy fan my entire life and have the 360 but not the PS3. Reason? Eh, too expensive, prone to breaking, not very many games. I guess that makes me a disgrace to the name of final fantasy. I'm not buying an entire console for one game, no matter how seemingly immaculate FFXIII is. Besides, if anything they should be booing the game itself, seeing as how it tries to detach from previous FF and try something different, which FANS HATE, RAR! It's not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, it's just not like other Final Fantasies, and you know how much those FF fans hate originality.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Were they yelling "Boo" or "Boo-urns?"

 

[UnravThreads]

Wow, what a bunch of dicks.
The store didn't have to open at midnight for release.
There didn't have to be a competition/quiz.
There didn't have to be a prize, especially of that relative magnitude.
There didn't have to be an "event" made of release.

God forbid a company does something nice like allowing the fan to get the game for, effectively, free. As it's been mentioned in this topic, Final Fantasy isn't a "Sony" property at all so why do the (I'm assuming) PlayStation fanboys come out en masse for it?

 

[Spirultima]

Oh, right. Fanboys. Logic does not apply here.

Hypocritical statements for the win.

I have a very good reason for disliking FFXIII on the 360.

Spoiler

We as PS3 owners lost out because of you 360 owners.

 

[Sass0519]

Me as the announcer: "Really? Ok, fuck it. It's mine!"

*leaves with Xbox bundle*

Haha! That would have made the scene even better!

 

[Korten12]

Heh, I probably would have booed, too.

I mean, FFXIII was originally meant to be a ps3 exclusive, and there are TV ads in the uk which only acknowledge the 360, almost as if its an xbox exclusive.

Exactly why I'm so pissed at this as well. I mean, advertisements for multi platform games are ALWAYS with all the consoles in the end. Only now it's a 360 exclusive commercial. It's like a Huge slap in the face for the Trey owners.

I remember the COD commericals only had the 360 logo at the end making it seem like an exclusive.

 

[Spirultima]

Here's a sequence of events:
- Current gen consoles announced.
- FF fanboys naturally assumed they would still be Sony only.
- FF fanboys queue out the door on release day to buy one of the 2 PS3's every store stocked.
- FFXI ported to 360. Noone really noticed.
- FFXIII announced on 360. People notice.
- FF fanboys bitter about paying £100 more for a console they don't need anymore. Everyone but their or Squares fault. Particularly Microsoft. How dare they let SE develop a game on their console. Arseholes.

Another mystery solved by Phoenix Arrow.

EDIT: OBJECTION!

Yup, your full of it.

You assume we only bought the PS3 because of Final Fantasy?

You also assume were angry because its on 360?

We're freakin' angry because when it was put on the 360; Square Enix had to work to both consoles power, ergo the PS3 losing out.

(Oh and for the record, any Final Fantasy fan worth their oxygen doesn't count FFXI as an actual Final Fantasy)

 

[scnj]

I'd be booing too. Not because I hate the idea of making FFXIII cross-platform. I just don't like how the 360 is constantly whoring itself with special edition bundles. There is no more market for your console. Everyone who is considering getting one has it already. Give it up Microsoft. And to the average Joe, the PS3 does everything you can do and MORE. That's probably why they keep whoring themselves out.

You're right, nobody is buying the Xbox 360 any more [http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/11/february-npd-xbox-360-and-bioshock-2-sales-heat-up/].

 

[John Funk]

Oh, right. Fanboys. Logic does not apply here.

Hypocritical statements for the win.

I have a very good reason for disliking FFXIII on the 360.

Spoiler

We as PS3 owners lost out because of you 360 owners.

No... we didn't?

FF13 looks pretty damn fine running on my PS3, bro. We didn't lose out at all.

 

[Slycne]

Oh, right. Fanboys. Logic does not apply here.

Hypocritical statements for the win.

I have a very good reason for disliking FFXIII on the 360.

Spoiler

We as PS3 owners lost out because of you 360 owners.

By that logic shouldn't you hate Sony equally for not holding onto a potential exclusive? I think that's what I find confusing about the whole situation, even if you ascribe to the PS3 version being dumbed down for the xbox360 - why is there no fan hate directed towards Square-Enix and Sony?

 

[Shady Dealer]

Well, that's the most pathetic thing I've seen all day.

Damn Fanboys.

i'll have to agree its a console people a game will be he same game just different controllers fanboys need to stop being so bloody picky

 

[Adzma]

This isn't about fanboys raging because they're fanboys, this is about fanboys who are pissed off that they received a watered down and inferior version of the game so it could cater to a console it shouldn't even be on. Don't try and tell me it hasn't been, because everyone knows it has, simply because the 360 isn't capable of the PS3's level of graphics. I'd have booed too.

 

[Dr.Susse]

At first when I saw the 360 version I thought ha ha 4 cd's how inferior. But then I realised wait two consoles means more people buying more people buying means game is more successful. Hooray for working out problems with sentence fragments (Shatner would be proud)

 

[Mako SOLDIER]

This is not even close to this hypothetical. FF was originally a nintendo franchise that moved to the PSX because nintendo refused to move on to CD-ROMs as their primary form of Media. Square Enix realized that attaching themselves to the PS3 alone when the two consoles have pretty much divided the market in half was stupid. What did Sony ever do for them, really. They did not contribute to development costs (a la Mass Effect and KOTOR). They were not under some sort of contract. Square-Enix was under no obligation to justify their fan-boy's purchase of the PS3 when it was never annouonced as an exclusive. It was just assumed.

This whole console wars thing is getting really freaking old.

This. Final Fantasy wasn't originally a Sony exclusive, nor has it been for a long time, what with all the Gamecube, Wii and DS titles 'n' all.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Seriously? You're posting this? Well whatever.

Yup, your full of it.
(No I'm not.)
You assume we only bought the PS3 because of Final Fantasy?
(No, but for an SE fanboy, I'm sure it was a major factor.)

NOW.

You also assume were angry because its on 360?

We're freakin' angry because when it was put on the 360; Square Enix had to work to both consoles power, ergo the PS3 losing out.

Read that. Then read it again and think about what you said. We're not angry because it's on the 360, we're just angry because it got released on the 360. The 360 isn't a bloody Atari Jaguar, it can handle the same amount of gameplay as a PS3 game, it just has to be put across multiple dics to handle the space. I'm talking about the game itself of course. The graphics, the audio and things like that are better on the PS3, I've seen them side by side. So please tell me, what exactly are you missing?

(Oh and for the record, any Final Fantasy fan worth their oxygen doesn't count FFXI as an actual Final Fantasy)

That wasn't my point. The point was that SE were proving that they were willing to develop FF games on both consoles and weren't sword to Sony anymore.