Final Fantasy XIII Specs Leaked
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Article written by nofi in PS3 News, on Friday, November 27, 2009 at 8:15.
Sick of hard drive installations, are you? If, like me, you’ve already filled your 160GB internal drive with ridiculously high bitrate PlayTV recordings, the odd movie, demo and the worst offender – mandatory PS3 game installs – you’ll be happy to know that Final Fantasy XIII won’t need to take up 4GB of your precious space because it appears, judging by the ‘leaked’ box art above, to run just fine from disk. Even the save games are only 500K.
The back of the box also confirms that the game will feature lovely PCM 5.1 audio and pre-rendered 1080p cutscenes, which will look rather lovely despite the game itself only running at 720p. The game, as if you hadn’t already guessed from being a Final Fantasy game, will feature bendy love hearts, detailed and frank discussion on inter-gender sex and a bloke with a rather disjointed little finger. Ah, those crazy Japanese and their silly ways.
Via UffSite.
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kassatsu | 27/11/2009 08:29
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wtf it has a trophy install of 1mb lol
Damigos | 27/11/2009 08:29
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I’m guessing that happened because of the Xbox’s poor specs (Xbox live arcade has no HDD). I’m also guessing the game will have huge loading times
I’d like, at least as an option, to be able to install the game, even if it takes up 4-5-6 GBs of space
cc_star | 27/11/2009 08:40
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Well you’d be guessing completely wrong on all counts
1) The 360 is specced just fine
b) If the game has been designed from the ground up for the PS3 & 360 seperately (which it has been), then it won’t need an install in the same way that Killzone2, Uncharted2 and other PS3 exclusives don’t – the stream the data off the disk and cache it on the hdd for when it’s needed
4) Load times will be non-existant, again because the game isn’t a sub-standard port
nofi | 27/11/2009 08:42
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Load times will be quicker on the 360 anyway, the only time the PS3 comes close is with an install.
Damigos | 27/11/2009 08:45
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I wish you’re right. I am not actually aware of wether or not the game is designed ground up seperately for both consoles. But in any case the Xbox’s performance and specs are generally poorer
cc_star | 27/11/2009 08:51
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The game has been developed for each platform independantly from each other and therefore shouldn’t have load times anyway in the same way that PS3 exclusives don’t have load times.
actual game – will be pre-cached using similar programming techniques
cc_star | 27/11/2009 08:53
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Damigos
You’re showing how little you know about specs, so it’s best we end this here.
Damigos | 27/11/2009 08:57
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Maybe i dont
It’s not my intention either to have specs and numbers in my mind all the time. I just need proper gaming, like everyone else in here i suppose.
Good morning and keep the good FF news coming
Raen | 27/11/2009 09:09
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Apparently they didn’t start building the 360 version until the PS3 versions engine was complete anyway, so it should certainly run fine on the PS3 and 360. Oh and cc, you should have use iii) for the third point.
Crisz | 27/11/2009 16:22
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Uncharted 2 does NOT have install!
Damigos | 27/11/2009 08:53
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Thanx for the tip. So, a kick-ass game just got even better..
I’m looking forward to check the specs (and ofc play) FF Versus XIII too
Kamokazi-UK | 27/11/2009 08:30
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Installations dont bother be that much, but the save game size??? Puts my fallout 3 saves to shame.. (13mb)
kassatsu | 27/11/2009 08:32
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That is nothing. Afrika/Hakuna Matata has a 400 MB save file.
Aitrus | 27/11/2009 08:49
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What?! Is the save an image of the entire game?
TRiLoGY | 27/11/2009 08:41
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hmm, I actually like Game Installs.. But then i did upgrade my PS3’s HDD to 500GB..
Aitrus | 27/11/2009 08:50
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They did it right with Valkyria Chronicles: an optional install to help loading times, but you can also just run the game from disc.
TRiLoGY | 27/11/2009 08:55
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Yeah I guess that the Installs themselves are not a problem for anyone really, it’s not having the choice to Install (or not Install) that people don’t like..
Fresh191 | 27/11/2009 08:54
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I dont mind installing or not as long as the load times are nice and quick. It sometimes doesnt speed things up, I mean I think the load times in AC2 are slower than Uncharted 2 but AC2 is installed on the HDD, might just be me though.
Now Ive seen some Vids of Final Fantasy and I cant decide weather its my cup of tea, Ive never played the previous itterations of the game so I dont really know what to expect.
Damigos | 27/11/2009 09:56
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Expect the best possible graphics with the best possible storyline along with the best possible turned based-time based-rewarding battle system.
Expect the best of the best
In the meantime try FFVII, which is the most popular one and is the one to make the most resemblance to FFXIII!. It’s also available on PC (thepiratebay.org
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And if you finish before 2010 try FFVIII, again available on PC.
Ryosuke | 27/11/2009 11:22
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Actually to be honest, if you really wanna play a Final Fantasy and don’t mind going ‘Back to the old school’ seriously play Final Fantasy V that was amazing!
Though if your adamant for more updated Graphics go for X. If you have a few months of solid gaming go for VII. Those 3 are the best in my opinion.
Deathbrin | 27/11/2009 12:54
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And we don’t either. XI was a MMORPG. XII threw the story out the window and invented whole new battle system. It could be anything.
Ryosuke | 27/11/2009 15:28
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XI was a good MMORPG imo…Though i was highly addicted, i guess i still am in a way ><
Deathbrin | 27/11/2009 20:13
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Not saying that was bad either. I liked how they made the system where you interact with Japanese using pre-made phrases, kinda lowers the language barrier.
As for your advice, i would also recommend VI, it’s kinda… richer then V. Still love V though, i guess it has the most replayability. Also the cutscenes were so… human. Not the overpowered/heroic like.
Ryosuke | 27/11/2009 11:17
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Exciting stuff. Cannot wait for this, though i’m not holding my hopes up unfortunatley for me X-2: Sucked. XII: Sucked. All those millions of pointless DS versions of FF: Sucked.
X was good, but really there hasn’t been a GREAT FF since Squaresoft became Square-enix. But i’m really hoping they prove me wrong with XIII and XIV.
Please Squeenix prove me wrong ; ;
Deathbrin | 27/11/2009 20:23
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You kinda got the hopes wrong. The trending “FF Savior” title is FFvsXIII. Join the crowd.
I loved the Occuria scene in XII, by the way. The rest of the game didn’t live up though. Still have that Yiazmat to beat. ^^
Deathbrin | 27/11/2009 20:28
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Oh, and you can’t argue Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (the original one, not A2) was amazing. Some experienced players put it to their top 3 among VII and X. You should check the intro on YouTube at least.
skibadee | 27/11/2009 14:51
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I still not shore if I will even jump on this game when it hits next year. never played one of them.
Roynaldo | 27/11/2009 15:46
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Im a bit of a noob at all this techno stuff so, apart from the obvious taking up HDD space I can only see that an install benefits the game. It eases pressure on the drive, therefore likely to reduce any excess heat and from that possibly reducing the chance of overheating and getting RROD/YLOD.
Id like someone to explain why im wrong here coz i just dont get why installs are that bad.
colossalblue | 27/11/2009 15:56
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I totally agree up to the point where large install become essential. If they’re optional I’d much rather have an install because it speeds up load times if nothing else (and MW2 on PS3 showed that without installs load times are too much).
It’s annoying when they are forced because sometimes you’d just like to get your game on without having to wait 5 minutes (or 25 if it’s MGS4) watching a progress bar fill (or an old guy with a mullet having a fag).
cc_star | 27/11/2009 15:56
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All probably right, although a game won’t need installs if its been well programmed (Killzone 2, Uncharted2 or pretty much any first party blockbuster)
So the fact it needs an install shows the programming could have been better, although have an install on a poorly programmed game is better than having no install on a poorly programmed game.
Bladesteel | 27/11/2009 16:44
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I agree a little.
But having an optional install on a brilliantly programmed game is still better than not having an optional install on a brilliantly programed game.
And no matter how good a programmer is there’s a limit to how fast you can read data off the blueray, that is probably beat by even the slowest HDD a user might decide to upgrade to. I’d rather have a small install than even the shortest loading time.
Roynaldo | 27/11/2009 16:09
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Squareenix/soft have always done spectacularly well with their games in making sure that they run very very smooth so I have no doubt that this will be exactly the same as previous versions.
For the record though I am pro installs, I wouldnt care at all if I had to wait 20 mins to get the best out of a game that will see me happy for the next 100 hours.
I agree with you Cb that installs should become optional (if thats what you were getting at), I would use it in all my sandbox games and probably quite a few others regardless of how long or how big the file is.
While games like Uncharted use the caching superbly there are always times when my PS3 goes into overdrive and I do get worried that any moment it could just cough and fart at me before YLOD hits me (again).
In the end, the games smoothness and my PS3s survival is what matters most and if that takes installs for every game then so be it.
YOURMUMANDME | 28/11/2009 12:33
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Bendy love hearts …… I’ve missed the TSA banter !
Imaruler | 30/11/2009 01:45
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No installation !!!