Rumor: Japanese Xbox 360 Version of Final Fantasy XIII Incoming?

and just to throw this out there, Eastern made games will sell better on PS3 98% of the time, no matter the quality, ask Bayonetta

@kupomogli your wasting your time explaining yourself to these fools. THey cant seem to grasp that very little people have 360 in that region and the ones who wanted FF13 would have already played it by now. Even though it wont be much to port, it wont sell at all. Period.

Waste of Cash IMO, what are we talking about here, maybe an extra 40,000 copies?

I sense a FF13 bundle Xbox 360 coming to Japan.

@GuiltySpartan77

So why are Star Ocean and Last Remnant being listed as selling more copies on a topic that has nothing to do with the two games? Let's not forget that Last Remnant isn't coming out on the PS3. I doubt we'll get Last Remnant and the Amazon.jp thing was a screw up.

Aside from that. Star Ocean the Last Hope International has only been out for four months. Also in that four months the PS3 version has sold 130k while the 360 version has been out a year and four months and has only sold 240k. The 360 version sure sold like crap considering the PS3 version has more than half the copies sold in four months.

Timed exclusives that come out on one system first don't sell more copies on the other system. The only way I'd see that happening is if you were getting an inferior version. However Virtua Fighter 5 came out as a timed exclusive on the PS3 and then the 360 version, the much better version came out afterwards with online support, yet the inferior PS3 version sold better.

easy money, even if it sell ten thousand copy at $35 share, thats still $350,000 profit. wont be suprise at all. people need to realize all the dialog and audio are already available. it won't take a few programer a weke of work to type the dialog and convert the audio files.

@bloodcrust

Monster Hunter did good because Frontier is Monster Hunter HD and between the PS3 and 360 it's an exclusive title. The PS3 already has Final Fantasy 13 so the 360 game isn't going to be exclusive.

Anyways. Final Fantasy 13 was poorly received in Japan and porting over a game that was poorly received to begin with with an inferior port when most people in Japan own a PS3 just doesn't seem like a good idea.

lol at people saying it's a bad idea monster hunter did great! on the 360 and it just proves it not the 360 they hate it's the games. If they release the right games then people will buy it there. It would be a great move to help the 360 over in Japan. WOW there's a lot of stupid people on here lol. It's just a rumor now anyways.

seems a little pointless, but okay!

waste of cash....

Hopefully it's an "International" version. Releasing on both 360 and PS3

this would be a waste of time and money, FF13 didnt light the world on fire, Square just needs to let it go. Releasing an inferior version in a region that has an abysmal amount of 360s sold...just use that energy to make sure Versus is the best it can be. Hell use that energy to make Agito the best it can be, look forward not back

@GamerExclusive - "SE are really regretting making DQX for the Wii right now"

And, besides not being based on anything factual, this has what bearing exactly on the subject matter?

There are only two people in Japan that actually own a 360 instead of a PS3. Only one of those guys wants FF13. The other is known as "Retarded Chang".

I don't see much point, but since the they don't have bother with any localization. Whatever it sells would be basically pure profit.

Meh, "exclusive" is a term that describes what's goin on at release now. Not the life of a game anymore.

If this goes down, I'd better see a PS3 version of The Last Remnant soon. That one was actually announced and to date is still on hold. Man do I hate Wada.....

Strange

SE are really regretting making DQX for the Wii right now...

They should do it. Will get probably 200k LTD sales over there. and I see that being worth it. They should also release another PS3 version for cheaper to reap some more benefits.

Whats the point really?

100k to 150k for FFXIII on 360 in japan. Released 12 months after PS3. IMO it would still sell over 100k in Japan.

Well, I'm wondering what the cross ownership rate is in Japan with 360 and PS3. I guess there are a few people who are lukewarm on FF in general and FFXIII in particular who own a 360 and don't have a PS3 who would buy FFXIII at the right price. But in all seriousness who among the FF fanbase wouldn't have bought a PS3 to play FFXIII in Japan?

FFXIII sales across 360 and PS3 is pretty respectable. It's easily going to be the 4th best selling FF title of all time. Adding 200K (which let's be real is about what could be expected out of the 360 in Japan) is all well and good, but it's not going to propel sales forward. Still another $2million dollars in the pocket for SE shouldn't be dismissed out of hand if SE are under no contractual obligation to Sony for exclusivity in Japan. I would imagine they'll also want to release the game in the other Asian markets where it's only available on PS3 currently. I don't imagine this is a move they feel they need to do in order to make the 360 port profitable because at 1.45 million units sold to date it surely must have got them a profit.

ab out 20k, shure would be awesome for square if you ask me...

Could be possible. I don't think that Square-Enix is pleased with the FF13 sales worldwide. Probably they want to quench now every drop of money out of the game.

star ocean the last hope sold more on 360 than ps3
Last Remnant will be the same way won't sell more than the 360 version