EGM editor-in-chief James Mielke asked Kitase, "Will there be any compromises made to the Xbox 360 version in terms of the FMV quality or audio quality?"
Kitase cooly responded, "At this point, nothing's really been decided; that will be a process that takes place in the future, but for the difference between the hardware, we'll work on trying to find ways to compress the prerendered movies and voice that take up a lot of data in ways that don't affect the final product. As for the in-game visuals, we're going to look for ways to ensure that the quality remains the same between the two versions."
Here's a question readers. If it had to be on multiple discs would it matter? Seems like the same amount of hassle compared to being forced to install a game. Just saying.
[Thanks, Jonnah]
Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
7-17-2008 @ 3:45AM
Joe said...
Sorry, i should probably read everything in front of this but:
I don't care about multiple disks. Driver 2 had 2 disks and so did alot of Old Playstation Games. It was fine, i would rather have 2 DVDs then have to install any day.
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7-17-2008 @ 4:17AM
Captain Gears said...
Yus! Sexy Time!
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7-17-2008 @ 4:20AM
Kaikenzu said...
Final Fantasy for 360 eh. Haha I totally shoved this in my mates face just then, fucking ps3 fanboy.
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7-17-2008 @ 9:34AM
Riku said...
I'd rather swap a disc then buy a PS3 so that says it all. In the end even if the PS3 has the slight better version (which it should) 360 is still getting FFXIII!
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7-17-2008 @ 11:00AM
Collymilad said...
Has anyone noticed that the only game that has been said to "require" blu-ray is MGS4? And having 60 million hours of cut-scenes in High def is the single, sole reason for that need (well, unless you want to switch disks, or install every episode...oh, wait...)
It's not surprising that the PS3 fanboys have started with their "ooooh, they will have to gimp it blah blah blah". No, they won't, because worst case scenario is that they will go back on this and actually make it more than 1 disk...oh crap, the horror eh?
As with every other damn game that's been out this gen (that has been multiplatform) the two versions will be exactly the same (or superior on 360, but i doubt in this case since it was a PS3 exclusive till now).
The funniest thing about this whole blu-ray farce is that it's not even required this gen. Yes, you can fit mega-highres textures on a blu-ray disk, much more than a DVD9, but people never seem to look beyond that and realise that it doesn't matter if you have 50Gb worth of textures if the hardware can't run it.
Any game that actually required 50Gb for textures and game elements (and not ridiculously long movies) would not run on a PS3 or an Xbox 360.
Blu-ray may be critical next-gen, but it's really not this gen.
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7-17-2008 @ 11:52PM
your mom said...
i bet if the 360 had a br player u would be saying otherwise
7-17-2008 @ 11:55PM
Xav de Matos said...
We wouldn't say anything because we'd all be forced to sit through stupid load times...
7-18-2008 @ 1:41PM
shadowlusterx said...
I'm also really hoping they don't end up gimping them. That would suck, and hopefully it won't happen as you said. Otherwise I'm fine with it going multi-platform.
The PS3 has blu-ray because each of their consoles is expected to last 10 years and it'll probably be needed in 5 years or so. So don't bag on it.
7-18-2008 @ 1:44AM
Solojackets said...
These people are smart, they'll make it happen. No way of knowing how till it does. Either way, it's coming to the 360. Just be happy.
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7-18-2008 @ 12:43PM
tojfs7931 said...
How hard is it to get up and change a disc? Have we become so lazy that we can't get up and swap out a disc?
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7-18-2008 @ 7:29PM
Stranger said...
Guess they won't be able to ship it to every region with 15 different language tracks on board, boo hoo. Do separate manufacturing runs for each region!
So long as I get both the English and the Japanese language tracks here in the US. FFXII's english VO was unbearable. I hope they at least tone down the Old English vernacular this time around, XII's translation laughably overused it, and ultimately kept me from enjoying anything the characters said... which is bad in an RPG.
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7-26-2008 @ 2:49PM
kyle said...
i would never want to be forced to install a game on my hard drive, i bought the 20gb, and disc swapping so much easier, and less time consuming, although, try to take a disc out of the tray with the game still playing, it goes back to the dashboard...dont know howd that work out
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