Square Enix Fakes Final Fantasy XIII Comparison Shots
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 14, 2010 08:08 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Final Fantasy, Photoshop, Ports, PS3, RPG, Square Enix, Xbox 360
Square Enix has been caught passing off faked comparison screenshots of the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of top tunnel crawler Final Fantasy XIII as evidence there is no difference between the two versions.
Square Enix gave “official comparison shots” of the two versions to a site gullible enough to post such a thing; even casual observation revealed some images to be completely identical, whilst others merely had the button graphics switched around:
Even were the versions graphically identical, there would be noticeable differences in the file properties and details such as lighting and resolution.
The Xbox 360 port has already been singled out by eye-witnesses as being inferior to the PS3 original (and Square already admits the version will have lower quality pre-rendered cutscenes), so these images appear doubly deceptive.
Square Enix later issued a statement claiming the insertion of Photoshopped fakes was “obviously not intentional”:
“We are looking into how the FFXIII altered screens ended up in our presskit & will update asap. This was obviously not intentional…”
Just how did they get there?
In any case, the subject of port differences in a major title like this is probably far too sensitive for any truthful response to expected from Square Enix, a company which does not in any case have the best reputation for media relations.
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If I had a choice I would BUY it for ps3. Sadly since I only have a 360, It'll only be a fun rental for me.
As you can see, the PS3 and the 360 gives EXACTLY the same result...
You should read the article. Not only read the title and look at the pictures.
Lower res pre-rendered cutscenes? Considering 80% of the game appears to be pre-rendered cutscenes, I can see where this would be a concern and it is here that the Blu-Ray format wins due to sheer capacity. I have no doubts that the actual playable portions of the game are going to be visually identical between the two versions.
Yet eye-witnesses have already reported that the playable parts in the Xbox version are inferior...
Considering their sales, they should work harder on not failing again on something...
This is Square Enix we're talking about, I highly doubt FFXIII will be their last mistake.
"I have no doubts that the actual playable portions of the game are going to be visually identical between the two versions."
"Yet eye-witnesses have already reported that the playable parts in the Xbox version are inferior..."
THAT, confirmed.
@20:50
Yeah you right Inferior Graphice /= Great Graphics
After all we all play games for the cut-scenes not the story like this game amirite?
lol who cares what ones graphically better, because this comment is exactly right, hasn't almost every reviewer said ff13 is terrible? Even if one did look better or worse, the end result is the same, shit plot and and linear as a bridge.
Well, pretty graphics are the only thing it has left going for it.
With a boring story and and linear game play, once you take the graphics away, it becomes less than rent-worthy - bargain bin-worthy.
y=mx+b
Y = mX + C
Fixed.
Don't forget the line is sloping downward like FF13's sales.
So, M = -9000
shut up fatimmortal
No no. He's on to something. They fail over here, and there won't be a slope at all. Their profit graph will be a line strait down the Yaxis...poor squareenix.
Ah well, it can't be helped...
you mean tangent to the x-axis
Yes, and the result of Bad.
Wow shanyy, you can't even read can you?
The point is going into the image properties and examining it this is total bull shit. The images are exactly the same in more then a few cases, just with some lighting differences.
It's already been stated that it's drastically inferior.
Seems like a last ditch effort now that japan knows what an awful game it is. Since xbox360 is sadly the king (90% Piracy) in the u.s. they HAVE to do this.
So the only reason for you not to buy it, rather than the game being less than mediocre, is because you don't have a PS3? And you base your decision on comments from some random NeoGAF dude and some IGN journ-lol-ist, not even some remotely qualified comparison like, say, DigitalFoundry's?
lol
lol, talk about the devil.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/tech-analysis-final-fantasy-xiii-article
Awesome, you linked an article that barely did any comparison of the said game.
+0.1
Well, at least we know they indeed improved many things over the demo, so there's a pretty good chance they'll improve it even further for the American and European releases.
Then again, technical improvements probably won't fix what's really wrong with this game, but whatever... :P
Even if you have a PS3 you shouldn't buy such a shitty made game.
That should be enough. Stop listening to any further news about the game.
Nah. Pathetic stuff like this deserves to be posted up so we can all have a good laugh.
Stop being so poor and buy a PS3 too.
If they didn't make it multi-platform in the first place, maybe they could have added more content to a PS3 only version.
but alas, they sold out and screwed up.
The game was destined to be shitty from the get go. Read some actual interviews about them being just too fucking lazy to build shit in HD.
The game was ported to 360, not designed for it. How difficult is that for you to understand? Is your brain stupid?
i dont really see a difference O_o
that's the point, they're the same images -,-
Honestly, I don't really care if the 360 gets it at this point. It would be another thing entirely if the game was great, but a mediocre tunnel game? Sounds up their alley.
The whole situation is rather lame.
That is desperate.
not to mention they removed half the game to port it lol. square really screwed up this time.
this one Stunk like shit
emphasis on the stunk part
BUT EVERYONE SAID BLU-RAY WAS GOING TO MAKE A HUGE GRAPHICAL DIFFERENCE!
Bwahahahahaha.
Pressing caps lock at appropriate times makes the world a better place.
Also, try steering next time to avoid crashes like the one you just displayed.
This article does nothing to disprove or denote BR making a graphical difference? The point is not that both versions were altered to look better, merely the lack of actual comparison... Try reading the text.
Regardless Xboxes dun 'do' Blu Rei k?
Misspellings obviously not intentional.
Reading comprehension fail.
No one's psychic. Who would have forseen them screwing things up so heinously?
It's Square Enix. Isn't "screwing things up heinously" pretty much that company's modus operandi?
Blu-ray is just for data lulz . Without the horsepower bluray can do shit .
b-but,look!
even if the ps3 public know our game suck since they could import it,we still have the xbox!
l-let's make it looks like it is the same,there might be some who forgot what we said about differences...
*shoop spotted*
...w-we have no idea at how these false screenshot got in there,i swear it!
...buy our game?please?we even support nba so pleaaaaase! ;ç;
CANADANE LAUGHS at the fools who bought such a game.
Meh I not buying it.
waiting for the price cuts
worth it for 15 bucks.
Comparing two versions of a Final Fantasy game is like comparing excrement: One might have some corn, the other might be darker, but they're both shit anyway.
Looks like FF13 is already doomed to fail in the US, even before it reaches here.
This hole S-E are digging for themselves is getting deeper and deeper with every announcement they make...
...but fear not, they'll be catapulted upwards the moment they release Final Fantasy VII on PSN, for on that very day, Sony's servers will fry as millions of rabid fanboys go berserk and (attempt to) rebuy what they already own and wasn't even all that great to begin with. And all will be well in Square-Enix-land.
Sorry, but the hole is reserved for burying Sony.
Oh, Sony, you fucking lied about "saving cost" when you took away PS2 backward compatibility from the PS3. Obviously the PS3 can do backward compatibility. How else do you play PS2 games from PSN? You just wanted to charge us money for the games we already own, just the fiasco you tried to pull with the PSP Go.
Hmm?
But it already is available on PSN. http://na.square-enix.com/ff7psn/
I have it that it's indeed one of the most popular downloads there, too.
Oh crap....looks like I've missed that one.
But I guess you could replace FF7 with an "enchanced remake" or just about anyting FF7-related that could be produced with minimum time and effort and continue in (successfuly) milking the FF7(-franchise!) even further. I assure you: slap FF7 on the cover and it'll sell like cupcakes.