To recap: Final Fantasy XIII was announced for both consoles along with Final Fantasy XIII Versus which would be exclusive to PlayStation 3 alongside Final Fantasy Agito XIII for mobile phones.
XIII arrived, XIII Versus vanished and the PC version of Final Fantasy XIV made its debut but was routinely described as being a bit pants.
Meanwhile, Final Fantasy XIII-2 was announced, then Square Enix decided XIV needed an overhaul which was dubbed XIV 2.0 and the PS3 version was put on hold whilst a new engine was built.
Final Fantasy Agito XIII dropped the Agito XIII and mobile phones, becoming Final Fantasy Type-0 for PlayStation Portable, scoring 39/40 from Famitsu.
XIII-2 was released and well received, whilst XIV 2.0 is currently being optimised, leaving Square Enix with 50% more work complete on XIV PS3.
XIII Versus remains MIA despite being announced in May 2006
If you followed that you deserve a medal and may be interested to know that a public beta for the PC and PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIV will launch sometime this winter.
I’m going for a lie down.
Source: US PS Blog
Dom El
I absolutely want this to be great – the reality is probably going to be abject disappointment though!
Megamoppy
In Versus XIII, I recently went on an E3 live feed when it wasn’t broadcasting and saw a trailer for Versus XIII (At least i’m 75% it was one) it went on for quite a while (Probably around for around 7 minutes) and showed what looked like a rich japanese guy meeting a girl then choppers appearing and blowing shit up, does this sound familiar to anyone? Might be old for all I know