360 Final Fantasy XIII Comes On Three Discs
Three - it's a magic number.Published 02/02/2010 at 11:00 by Kovacs
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GameFly are claiming you’ll be getting off your arse twice if you buy Final Fantasy on the Xbox 360 as the non-PS3 Blu-ray flavour will come on three DVDs. Square have said this morning that you’ll need to swap disks twice during the game.
Of course, us ancients can remember switching four discs (and many more floppies) during the bygone days of gaming, so this really shouldn’t be much of a problem.
We’re more concerned about reports that the 360 version is allegedly not matching its PS3 cousin in other departments such as the game’s visuals. Sure, we all know about the compressed audio trade-off on the 360 version, but the reduced capacity of the medium on Microsoft’s platform may also be the cause of why textures are apparently less crisp.
Final Fantasy XIII launches on one Blu-Ray and three DVDs in March.
Source: Kotaku
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cc_star | 02/02/2010 10:58
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The Blu-ray was examined to be 6.8gig (the max size Microsoft allow a game to take up on a DVD9) game content and 32.6GB of movies
Kamokazi-UK | 02/02/2010 11:07
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That sounds like Square Enix all over…
Aitrus | 02/02/2010 11:46
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So the game itself IS limited to 6.8gig because of the X360!
32.6GB’s of fluff. It better be pretty.
52pickup | 02/02/2010 11:02
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So which version will look the best?
Lone Wolf | 02/02/2010 11:06
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Bit disappointing
Kamokazi-UK | 02/02/2010 11:13
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But not unexpected..?
Lone Wolf | 02/02/2010 11:19
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yes
Aitrus | 02/02/2010 11:47
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Don’t you mean ‘no’?
Pitcher-T | 02/02/2010 11:19
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What did people on Xbox expect? I’m glad this has happened, it shows Squenix isn’t lowering the quality to fit it onto a single DVD.
Also I’m annoyed the box art isn’t the traditional one with simple white background and title. Maybe Xboxers might not know what the game is about unless there’s a pretty picture on the front, lol. I know you can get it with the Limited edition version, just thought I’d mention it
DrOf1337 | 02/02/2010 11:09
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360 titles often have lower resolution textures and lower qualiy audio, but after about 5-10 minutes of playing the game, unless you’ve got both running side by side, it won’t really matter.
What WOULD matter is if the 360 or PS3 version have significant frame rate issues or screen tearing, etc, because those can pretty distracting.
Kamokazi-UK | 02/02/2010 11:14
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Very true, but we shall see, but not soon enough!
Person678 | 02/02/2010 11:16
BOOM! Headshot!
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Since when did 360 titles have crappier graphics? I don’t own a 360 but AFAIK Most are slighty superior. The Sabotuer, Bayonetta, Fallout 3, Ghostbusters, The Orange Box, so on.
nofi | 02/02/2010 11:19
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Yeah, I agree.
YOURMUMANDME | 02/02/2010 11:20
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But they were made on a 360 engine then ported over to the PS3 , with FF it’s the other way around ( for a change )
Pitcher-T | 02/02/2010 11:22
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Those were probably made for the Xbox, then ported to the PS3. however FF XIII was made on the PS3 and “ported” to the Xbox.
I say “ported” as I heard they didn’t simply transfer the data to Xbox but instead tried hard to maximise the potential from the Xbox as they are two different pieces of hardware. Something other developers could learn alot from
DrOf1337 | 02/02/2010 11:35
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It’s not relevant for FF because they’ve split the assets across multiple DVDs – but I’m not necessarily talking about multiplatform games. The resolution of your average texture asset in Uncharted is larger than Halo 3 for example. Say for a face or body segment, or for the tiled ground textures. This is just a storage concern, it has nothing to do with the 360’s ability to process the graphics themselves.
Often they don’t make higher resolution textures for games ported over from Xbox so you don’t see a quality increase. Like AC2, the PS3 version is blurry by comparison, they go OTT with anti-aliasing so you don’t notice.
Like I say, it’s not a big deal unless you’re literally running both side by side. I played AC2 on the Xbox and then on the PS3, my enjoyment of the PS3 version wasn’t less because of the blur. Average consumers don’t really care.
Raen | 02/02/2010 11:16
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From the vague reports we’re hearing out SquEnix’s road show over in the States this doesn’t seem to be an issue. Just texture difference. Really waiting for the Digital Foundry review.
YOURMUMANDME | 02/02/2010 11:17
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I hope I don’t offend any 360 owners but I should bloody hope the PS3 version looks a lot better . The 360 version is a port from the PS3 and ever since it was announced as multi platform there have been reports that the visuals have been downgraded from the original .
Which doesn’t really seem very fair considering it’s an amazing title that should never ever be held back from it’s potential .
cc_star | 02/02/2010 11:25
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For the record people
Both games were developed independently from each other, using shared assets.
The game on the Blu-ray takes up 6.8GB of disc space, this is the exact size that Microsoft allow a game’s content to take up on a DVD9, there is a 32.6GB of movies (that would include the movie’s audio) I would suggest that because of Blu-ray space there has been zero time and effort (and therefore money) spent on compressing this.
The differences would be minimal, and to see them the game will need to be ran through analysis software, of the type the Digital Foundry use to do their Face-Offs.
DrOf1337 | 02/02/2010 11:37
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Yes that’s the point. If the game came on one DVD9 you’d know you were getting lower res textures, but it isn’t and you aren’t. You just have to get off your ass and swap the DVDs over ever 20-30 hours. Chances are you’d be up for a coffee by that point anyway.
Machine Gun Ray | 02/02/2010 16:35
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So which one shall I buy?
dpb135 | 02/02/2010 11:38
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Im sure most xbox owners (if they have the space, thats another topic) will install the game anyway
DrOf1337 | 02/02/2010 11:41
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Unless MS have the foresight to make the first DVD okay to authenticate the content on all three discs you’d still have to swap regardless of install.
Tuffcub | 02/02/2010 11:41
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All Xbox owners are fat ugly bastards who need to move around, the exercise will do them good.
seedaripper1973 | 02/02/2010 12:53
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Wont stop them from being ugly though
Roynaldo | 02/02/2010 11:55
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Its no big deal, like cub says we had to do this loads and loads way back when. This is being done to maximise the games quality. Simples.
Is this the first ‘next gen’ game to go multi disc then?
Roynaldo | 02/02/2010 11:56
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ooops…my bad Kovacs article, not Tuffcubs. Sorry!
DrOf1337 | 02/02/2010 12:37
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Na, Blue Dragon came on 3 DVD9s I think.
seedaripper1973 | 02/02/2010 12:55
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er…how did you get that ‘Tends to spoil major games.’ moniker??
DrOf1337 | 02/02/2010 13:02
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That would be nofi’s doing.
seedaripper1973 | 02/02/2010 13:17
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Bloody favourites…
Yung Jones | 02/02/2010 16:58
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Nofi, I want a custom tag.
Deathbrin | 02/02/2010 12:05
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Umm… That is hardly any news?
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 02/02/2010 12:12
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3 disks, lucky them. will they have to pay more?
Louise | 02/02/2010 12:47
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I think they should. Surely 3 DVDs would cost more than one blu-ray.Also doesn’t MS charge developers extra for every extra disc they use to try to deter devs from doing it too much?
cc_star | 02/02/2010 13:03
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All platform holders charge $6-$10 for each disc released on the platform to the developers/publishers… I wonder if SqEnix got special dispensation on that in order to release the game on the 360… they probably did,
MS broke their own rules all the time… like the (now old) HD rule about games needing 720p minimum, but allowing Bungie, Infinity Ward & Rockstar to release sub-hd games in Halo, CoD & GTA
Pitcher-T | 02/02/2010 15:56
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One rule for one, one rule for another I guess
They’d be stupid to get FF on the 360 then ask “Oh btw, can you make sure it’s only one disc please?” lmao
jimmy-google | 02/02/2010 12:12
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3 Discs is still better than the 30 floppy discs it took to install the old Championship Manager games on the Amiga.
Redwink | 02/02/2010 16:26
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So glad I have the Playstation 3; one disc, but I won’t be buying Final Fantasy anyway.
Chris22666 | 02/02/2010 16:40
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There was a load of content the programers had already made when it was still a playstation exclusive but was removed because of the xbox so if that content was kept in there might have been 4 discs. Unless there planing on releasing it as DLC its a bit of a waste of the programers time.
TheShepanator | 02/02/2010 19:37
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The last nulti- disk I played was FFIX on the PS1, four disks of pure heaven… (at the time)