gilburtgtr Wrote:Hey, you never know, Microsoft might just buy themselves into the equation:angry: just like they have with XIII:angry:

The way I see it, Microsoft felt that the Final Fantasy franchise was one worth buying into. You never know, it might even lure Hironobu Sakaguchi into the equasion if it were an Xbox 360 exlusive. Although that is truly heavy dreaming I would say

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Well, it is a money thing, that's what it boils down to. Its unfortunate when you say it like that but that's just how it is. Hopefully everyone will be given the chance to play a game as epic as FF XIII, either on PS3 or 360, but I doubt that's the way Microsoft are looking at it (though they might give that impression to the general public).

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Of corse that is not the way Microsoft is looking at it. Simply put, they want there piece of the pie, and if you ask me they are doing a pretty good job of it.
Think about it like this: Originaly, Halo was going to be produced for the Playstation 2, but Microsoft saw this game in production, and struck a deal with Bungie, buying up the exclusive rights to Halo. The only real difference at this point is that Microsoft is not able to buy exclusive rights to Square-Enix games. Instead, it's all a matter of what platforms Square-Enix would like to put their games on.

While Microsoft may have been looking at the monetary aspect of having the next major Final Fantasy released on their bahemoth, I am pretty sure that Square-Enix was looking at the statistics in the North American region for Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3 sales. Which would explain that the Final Fantasy XIII release for the Xbox 360 is exclusive to the North American region (or at least it was last time I had heard).
Looking at how they release their games, Square-Enix has more reason other than money as to why they choose certain systems for each of their games. For example, when working on a remake for Final Fantasy III, The original idea they had was to make it on the Playstation 2. They had decided that it would have been a better idea to put it on the Nintendo DS, and this was before the system was released. Obviously, they had something there when they finally did release it, because it was a beautifully done game.

What ever they do with the Final Fantasy VII Remake, and we know that they are going to do it, despite all the denials they have been throwing out since the Playstation 3 tech demo, they will have a smash hit once again. This I am sure of.

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I don't think it would be that bad, honestly.... I mean, revise the spells a bit, maybe some new summons or skills, but just as long as they don't change the story line and what not. So, I'd be okay with it...

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Ariel is my life, and therefore I'm picky. Yet since Kingdom Hearts came out, I'm sure I've found her the perfect match!!!

The trouble with "exclusive" is it doesn't stay that way forever, sooner or later the PC or one/all the other consols WILL get the game, now so far the FF series has been different the games only been on one platform or another, so is this the time to expand, the credit crunch is biting everywhere and as an ardent fan i would happily buy the FF games on whatever platform they came out on....but would prefer on the PS3

As for just VII getting the remake, SE have remade previous games as batches except FFIII on the DS, would love to see 6+7 and 8+9 as either two seperate anthologies or as an entire package...would be cool whatever they came out as tho

Just my pennies worth of thought

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I would say yes to a remake, if only to own a legitimate copy of FFVII. However, by making one they immediately cause the PS1 version to lose most of its value, as new copies would be flooding the market and having an original copy wouldn't be all to special anymore.
But it's not going to happen in my opinion. Either that or it'll happen as a side project that will come out making the first one look even better by how bad the new one will be by todays standards.

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Kshtar Wrote:But it's not going to happen in my opinion.

I would say its inevitable and I must say, I think they will make it fantastic.

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Sure, why not

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Im on the no side of things. if they do. do it like 8-10 more years down the line.

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Sony will probably use it as a last resort. I can't imagine a better way to sell PS3s than a special FFVII bundle.

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