The Xbox 360 port of Final Fantasy XIII has been leaked to pirates a week in advance of its international release date, and is now being downloaded the Internet over in a literal free-for-all.
With the Xbox version thought to have noticeably inferior graphics to the PS3 version, and coming on 3 DVDs with half as much data, the early release to pirates is probably amongst the last things anyone at Microsoft or Square Enix wanted to befall the release.
Meanwhile the PS3 remains possibly the most unpirated console of all time… Just how sales of the two versions compare will be interesting to behold. Will piracy and degradation offset the Xbox 360’s lead in installed systems?
the most un pirated console hahah make me laugth the game cube was the same when its was pirated its only a matter of time the craks it done now it time to make the move any console or system is unpirateable and this shity web page ist always attacks the American things
i think it deserves to be pirated.. it was the most anticipated rpg to come out in a long time.. and didnt even come close to its hype.. it was juss plain dissapointing..
Hey, this just in (’cause I couldn’t be arsed to fact-check anything about this piece of s♥♥t game): http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ffx2
FF XIII’s director, Motomu Toriyama, was also behind the X-2 fiasco. This explains a whole fat lot, doesn’t it.
bad for microsoft and square enix mean very good for me. why pay 60 dollar for a game, I am most likely gonna just play once? pirate ftw!!
I will still buy the 360 version and give everyone the finger when I do…
’cause I got the moneys to do so…
ps3 version is always going to sell better because the demographic fanbase is on sony’s console
its the exact same reason why tekken6 sold a lot more on the ps3 aswell
In Japan I would agree with you, but in the US… You really need to do away with your fanboyish bullcrap.
I don’t think he’s being fanboyish, there’s every reason to think that that’s just the case with series like Final Fantasy and Tekken.
The thing is, there aren’t many 3D versus fighters to, let’s say, broaden the demographic on other systems (save for licensed shounen animu games), while there were a load of JRPGs released exclusively for… the Xbox 360 for the past three years. Hell, even from the get-go the 360 launched with stuff like [eM] -eNCHANT arM-, while the PS3 had almost no JRPGs to speak of. There’s been some laaaaate porting of old 360 titles recently (and many of those are Japan-only), but the fact is that there now is a pretty good demographic of JRPG players on the 360 in America.
So yeah, there’s no way to tell… although FF XIII is a pretty special case, it’s been promoted forever as a mainly PS3 title, coupled with the superior quality FMV sequences… I assume most American players will be inclined towards that version, but who knows.