As the XBox is using DirectX, this also means that us PC users will very probably benefit from this.
Squaresoft also announces that in their well-known money sucking style (well, this wasn't their exact words) they are going to first release a new version of Final Fantasy 7 for XBox. Using an existing product will lower the risks of trying out the platform, as well as giving their developers good training on a non-critical product. Microsoft will let them borrow their rendering farm for rerendering all the background graphics, as well as designing some new high-poly in-game 3D models (having the FF7 original graphics in a XBox version wouldn't be good for microsoft you know). Let's hope they rerender the cinematics in a higher resolution as well.
Imagine playing FF7 with high-res videos/backgrounds and high-poly 3D models...I can't wait...
Read more on Squaresofts webpage ...
You should all see Slashdot Slashdot and PsxEMU today...
(And if I really wanted to boost my counter I could have edited my counter.dat file. Just had to put in something so that not too many would believe in the crap, and putting up the link to what most slashdot trolls do wouldn't have been nice...)
No such customs here at least. And, the net is international after all, when I posted it I'm pretty sure it was before 12 PM somewhere in the pacific.
Oh well.
THEY FREAKIN' GOT ME WITH THAT EMULATOR BETA... I was like, YEAH, this is gonna be cool, and I tried to File -> Run CD...... and BANG... APRIL FOOL'S! I wasn't expecting it AT ALL, I thought the Pokemon stuff they did was enough.
1) No matter what you think about the PSX2 vs. XBox discussion, PSX2 isn't outdated now? And what does outdated mean? That it isn't the best? No, it means that you can't run the games you want, there's very few using money just to brag about their system specs, they want to play games as well you know.
So, as long as FFX is released on the PSX2, it will not exceed the PSX2's system specs and so, PSX2 is never going to be outdated. If you want to play FFI, the NES isn't outdated, right?
2) By the time the XBox is released most people will probably have played through FFX (or not be too long from it), if that happens PSX2 will be the best console on the market at the time anyway. Who cares what happens later?
3) The XBox don't have a chance in the japanese market, exactly because the RPG giants like Squaresoft doesn't support it! The XBox could the a hundred times better techincally, people still wouldn't buy it because FFX is released on the PSX2. When it comes to Japan and Final Fantasy, it is the console makers that must dance to the game companies' tune, not the other way around. Outside of Japan things are different but Final Fantasy was a success long before the outside world even knew about it. And the same holds true there as well, most Final Fantasy players are fans and many would buy a PSX2 to play that game alone.
I wish it wasn't this way though, because I would love to play FFX on my PC. Now I'm not sure at all what to do, I don't think I'm going to spend the money on a PSX2 myself. Oh well, there are other things to do than playing Final Fantasy.
I wish it wasn't this way though, because I would love to play FFX on my PC. Now I'm not sure at all what to do, I don't think I'm going to spend the money on a PSX2 myself.
If FFX never gets a PC version and prices on the PSX2 don't go down, I'm going to start a buisiness that caters to FF addicts and turns out triple CPU supermachines with a homemade PS2 emulator for less than the damn PS2 costs out here in hickville.
Oh well, there are other things to do than playing Final Fantasy.WHAT??????????????