MS Says Square Wanted FFXIII On Xbox360 >

	2008/08/11 11:59:35: Posted by DM
	Most are claiming that MS paid mucho bucks and put the screws to Square in order to have the franchise of franchises, Final Fantasy, move to the Xbox360. Well, that is not so, says MS. Xbox Marketing Director Albert Pennello has stated that no such "bribery" was involved. According to MS, the decision was made from Square, out of their own volition, due to the potential for muti-platform sales, plain and simple. The PS3's mediocre sales played a part, as well, it seems. Your choice to be cynical or not on this one, folks. “I think it’s easy to assume that something’s going on behind the scenes, I think the more obvious answer is we’re doing really well and the game creators want their games to be where the most people and the most consoles [are], and right now that’s the Xbox 360.” >Link
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Xbox 360 is the platform that Square Enix supports more than any other.

If you are a gamer who enjoys games from Square Enix, you NEED to have an Xbox 360!

Final Fantasy is a game franchise that is released on multiple platforms, including the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Infinite Undiscovery and Star Ocean: The Last Hope will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360. Even The Last Remnant will be a timed-exclusive game for the Xbox 360.

Obviously, if you like games from Square Enix, the Playstation 3 is definitely NOT the system for you. That honor belongs to the Xbox 360!

Square has been dead for while...

doesn't suprise me at all that they are going for money and multiplatform...

Oh they paid.....and paid WELL.

Response to blacktiger:

Square Enix isn't dead at all; they are doing quite well financially. If you attempt to say otherwise, you are once again demonstrating your "psychotic" attitude when real-world situations don't match want you want them to.



Response to dudeman:

Microsoft has "officially" and "publicly" made it 100% clear that they did NOT pay any money to get Square Enix to release Final Fantasy 13 for the Xbox 360.

NUFF SAID!

dudeman, if you continue to say otherwise, you are once again demonstrating your "delusional" attitude that disagrees with real-world facts that you do not want to believe.

MS never tells the truth...this is fact. I'd guess at least 50 million was paid. At Least!

dudeman = Delusional!

Are you 5?

Krogan: "Microsoft said some shit. NUFF SAID!"

Textbook blind fanboy. But everyone knows krogan (or UTP) by now, no?

Don't know what UTP stands for? Check this out: "Unbiased Technology Professor". That was krogan's former nick here in GR. Pretty slick don't u think? /diefanboy

@@@ Krogan Batlle

Shut your mouth already ,nobody cares about you or your idiotic posts. You may aswell get leave us alone , and get a job.

Too bad microsoft , Square chose the ps3 as n1 platform , after all its sony that have been the leader in this industry , ORiginal Xbox was a failure.

Square is only realising the game on the Xbox360 to make more money , but let it be know that the game was originaly planed with the PS3 Architecture in mind , the Xbox360 will only be and wack assed port.

Too Bad Xbox360 Zombies...too bad...

I've been away for a while, so forgive me if this has already been addressed...

But Tecno_Geek is either blacktiger or dudeman. Not sure which one yet, but it's clearly obvious that it's one or the other.

SupremeChaotic: Well I can vouch for Dudeman. He's not Tecno_Geek. He just tends to drink a it too much Sony koolaid.

It's just funny that all these new members joined GamersReports in the past few months. I can count at least 3 this past weekend. Yet a solid 80% of them have poor grammar, typing, and are PS3 fanboys.

On topic: I'm sure Microsoft did something to get Final Fantasy to have a simultaneous release date in EU and the US. Don't know if it was money, lower royalties, etc..

But I also know that SquareEnix would be foolish to ignore the 360 user install base in the US and EU.

Anyways if you read the article he never actually denies paying SquareEnix. Just says that the primary reason was because SquareEnix wanted FF3 on the 360.

Good spin.

According to this idiot above me, every Sony fanboys drink Koolaid,

lol

Good One Dumb@ss...

MS has paid $50 million, everyone knows that,

So give it up Fanboys!

Sony doesn't need it because they know they got enough exclusive, Infact I think its a big RISK for not getting exclusive, but they seem to be fine with it, since they have enough High Quality games.

Let it be...

hxxp://www.flamingwars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=83

Here is a link if anybody want's to see some ownage rather than having myself and others ruin gamersreports. Feel free to join in on the fun.

dude who cares stop bitching about system its coming out on.

evilblackranger: Exactly. Whats your PSN ID again? And what games do you have?

OFFICIAL statement that was PUBLICLY made:

Square Enix wanted FF13 on the Xbox 360, and Microsoft did NOT pay to have Final Fantasy 13 on the Xbox 360.

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FACT: Microsoft paid $50 for exclusive content for Grand Theft Auto 4...you can check Microsoft's accounting books to CONFIRM this!

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FACT: Microsoft did NOT pay ANYTHING for Final Fantasy 13, because it does NOT appear on their accounting records. This can be easily CONFIRMED!

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FACT: Anyone who attempts to say otherwise at this point in time is either "Delusional" or "Psychotic" because they refuse to acknowledge what is going on around them in the real world.

It only makes sense for them to release it on Xbox 360, there games attach is much higher than any other console to boot.

yep and the money MS paid them really helped sweeten the deal.

We're talkin MILLIONS!!

Maybe MS did pay them... so? Microsoft is 100x more powerful than Sony.

whYte420, I'm not sure If MS is more powerful since SONY has trillions of dollar with the electronics, infact they almost took over the world of electronics until they didn't belive in MP3...

Movie Industry, make more than billions of dollar per year...

MS needed a loan for the first time in history to buyout YAHOO!

That's cause they don't have enough money to buy for 44 billions dollar Corp.

Now point is, It's about how Corp, wants to spend money on exclusive and trying to buyout a lot of companies, instead of makeing quality games...

Look what happen to Rare,etc... it's worth less than 40 million dollar and they bought it for 300 million dollar.

They failed,

So they have no choice but to buy exclusive, they can not afford to buyout small companies or make quality games, otherwise it will struggle the stock market.

Finally MS is loosing on Operating System and slowly they jsut begining to go down,

Speaking of OS, their stock market went down since 1996' until they have release Windows Vista, and they've sold a lot, but now the review is so bad,

It's struggling a lot. Again!

That's why they wanted to buy Yahoo! but that didn't work out.

In case anybody want's to know the truth. the Stock market value of Microsoft is 6 times the amount of Sony.

Also the reason Microsoft want's to buy Yahoo is so they can compete with Google in the online market as far as search engine and online advertising.

It has nothing to do with sales of it's operating system.

Also RareWare was purchased for $377 million. The stock market value of Rareware has not been determined at this time.

Microsoft has 21 Billion in cash on top of all it's stocks, holdings, etc...

They could afford to buy Sony and Nintendo if they wanted to. Due to the fact that Microsoft is number 6 on the list of vost valuable companies in the world.

In fact Bill Gates himself is worth 58 billion dollars. Steve Ballmer is worth 15 Billion dollars.

I could go on and on but I think we all get the point.

Actually your wrong!

it's 300 million dollar

but point is, that they can not continue on their own, because thechnology change, and there for it's all touchscreen and animation features and better interactive...

Microsoft is still doing the same old crap just like the Xbox 360, they are not changing their strategy,

all they are doing is rushing more, and making crappy games recently...

thats why they went with the third parties, and buy the exclusive license, just for advertising, they have to pay more than 50 million just for few exclusive, so they won't hold on for long, but looking all this, sure they are good company for paying all the crazy exclusive, they are so good,

that they forget their customer serivce, that's where they f*cked it up, they always f*ck up customer service...

Now lets talk about RROD, do you see the pattern...

In case anybody wants the truth again.

hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_(company)

In November 2001, Microsoft trademarked the name It's Mr. Pants, the name of a game which was released three years later. In September 2002, the Stamper brothers sold their 51% interest in Rare to Microsoft; following this, Nintendo sold their 49% stake in the company as well. Microsoft paid a total of $377 million for the company.

No need to debunk the rest of the FUD. I provided a valid link instead of an opinion.

Anyways I wonder how many discs Final Fantasy 13 will need for the 360 and which version will be better???

^^^Check your private messages^^^

sure say whatever u want but u know i'm right in the end how microsoft is losing...

I know u could see the pattern my friend.

PimpDaddy is 100% correct...Microsoft has over $21 Billion in LIQUID ASSET CASH at this point in time...and do you know why they have that much?

Because they used to have $80 Billion in LIQUID ASSET CASH, and were ranked #1 in terms of the world's most valuable companies...about $67 Billion more valuable than General Electric. Microsoft was the FIRST company to ever be worth more than $400 Billion; they were worth $466 Billion at the time Windows XP was released.

But the shareholders of Microsoft finally said "it's time to pay us a dividend." As a result, the shareholders of Microsoft got BIG checks...Bill Gates got a check for $3.3 Billion, and he instantly gave it to charity. This instantly caused Microsoft to be worth $60 billion less.

Bill Gates was glad to have it happen; he started the worlds largest charity with his personal wealth!



blacktiger, Sony would NEVER EVER be more valuable than General Electric...GE is FAR more powerful than Sony, just because of the other companies that GE owns.

Samsung is also now FIVE TIMES as big as Sony. Things have changed a LOT in just ten years.

Consider that Sony lost $3.9 BILLION thanks to the Playstation 3, and Sony was LITERALLY FORCED to SELL Japanese factories in order to generation liquid asset cash!

Sony doesn't even use their own products in TV sets anymore. Now, Sony uses parts made by Samsung in Korea.

If you think Samsung is bigger, then you have no idea what your talking about,

that's the best I can tell you, although we all gamersreports knows that you make so much crap !

Stock Market for SONY right now is so huge in half of the divison, where they still own CD license with Philips, and then from movies studios, to everything.

I think you just hate it so much to make up anything up...

Microsoft on the other hand, is still loosing at this moment, thanks to Vista, and thanks to APPLE where they belive, they are the best position to take care of it, which everyone agree.

But put that all to the side, Microsoft is loosing with XBox 360, and now even worse after RROD.

To be honest I didnt think RROD was a big issue until I heard you have to wait 3 month and thats not all, you have to do it twice sometimes...

So bring up the best device is never the answer. That's where they thought it was.

Bring up the best customer service will always make customer a smile.

Xbox 360 new version of console is comming with different size of hard drive, the question is, can you upgrade your own >?

NO! cause everything cost money, they just want to eat yours, while yours is on RROD.

Have Fun, if you have yours at home.

What's funny I never knew that PS3 beats Xbox360 in Global except for North America,

What did I tell you ?

Customer Service baby!

And still they are close in sales... so thats almost all of the world!

KROGAN!!!!!!!!!!!

TOO LONG OF A POST!!!!!!!