What made you buy FF for Xbox?

[Ghosteses]

Serious question is serious. me and Freya were talking a little about FFXIII last night so I decided to look up more videos on youtube like reviews and such and this guy had the game on xbox. i was surpized because i did not know the game even existed on xbox


anyway when i was reading through the comments (yup i am dumb enough to do that) someone asked. why would you buy a ff game for xbox?


i thought at first that the guy was just herpaderping but the more i thought about it... the more it was actually a interesting question


If you are into FF you probably bought a PS3 right? i mean i looked in the game list and apart from remakes and gba games spin offs along with DS... between 10 and 12 all the games were on PS2 accept for the FF11 one that came out waaay later for xbox.


what i mean is... if you are a ff fan and were buying a new console would you not buy a ps3 on the 90% chance that a new FF game would probably come to that over any other console?


i am just curious =D this is not me going herpderp lol u bott 4 xbxxxxxxxxx!!11 because i honestly do not care if you did or not but it is more like if you have a ps3 and a xbox what made you decide to get it for xbox instead of ps3?


i noticed my friends brother had 13 for xbox today but he did not have a ps3 when the game came out i guess? the only FF games he owns is tactics on psp and 13.


anyway just curious =D

[Shauna]

I... only had an Xbox at the time of release. If it had been a PS3 exclusive then I would have gotten a PS3 for it eventually, but it wasn't, so I didn't have to shell out another £300 to play one game.

[Ayen]

I... only had an Xbox at the time of release.

This. The question makes the assumption that you got an Xbox specifically for the game instead of just getting it on what you had available to you. The 360 was cheaper than the PS3 at the time of purchase so that's what I ended up getting.

[Ghosteses]

Hmm no that is not what I mean but it makes sense! I basically meant what made you get it for xbox when you already had a PS3 xD

[Shauna]

Most people I know only had one or the other. I dunno how many people there will be who had both at the time of FF13's release. And I imagine anyone who did would have picked up the PS3 version, because of the disc issue that ToriJ mentioned below.

[Ayen]

I was mainly referring to the original YouTube comment. I don't know anyone who got it for the Xbox when they have a PS3 since the Xbox had to use three discs just to get all of the game on there.

[Ghosteses]

oh ok yeah makes sense. the person on youtube had both consoles which is why i thought the question was interesting. i guess maybe someone gave him the game or it was cheaper on xbox

[Jessweeee♪]

My boyfriend at the time had a 360, I had a PS2. So as that generation of games rolled out I was playing 360 titles.

[Mirage]

Ghosteses seem to underestimate the amount of people who owned a 360 but no PS3. Few people would buy a PS3 to play FF13 when they already had a 360. If they did, that's what would be a crazy thing to do, not buying the game for 360.

If you have both consoles, you might get it for 360 if you care about gamerscore more than having the best graphics. If they already have a lot of achievements on their 360 account, they might just want to stick to using that.

[Ghosteses]

maybe i gave the thread the wrong title ;o what i mean is if you own a 360 AND a ps3 and you bought the game for 360... why did you? xD

or would you? maybe it was just this one guy on youtube that did for whatever reason ;o

[Ayen]

I wouldn't give it much thought, honestly. I hate the more extreme brand loyalty that goes into consoles with some gamers. If I have both systems and I wanted a game that was available on both I'd just get the first copy I could find.

[Aulayna]

People might just prefer to play it on the XBOX, there's also things like Gamerscore, being able to chat with their LIVE friends etc.

I had a PS3 and an XBOX and got it for the 360 originally, this was purely because our house had a ps3 and 2 360s, one of the 360s and the PS3 were communal and lived in the living room so they could be used by any of our housemates. I had my own 360 from when I still lived with my parents so when I moved out, I kept that one and had it in my room hooked up to my PC monitor. So I got XIII on 360 because it meant I could play it in my room without having to worry that I was stopping other people from using the TV or whatever.

I eventually got it for the PS3 a couple of years later, but that was because I chanced upon a cheap collector's edition in the local game store.

[Mahad]

If I had had the choice to pick it up for either console, I would gone with the ps3 version; why would you want to go through THREE discs? Yeah sure, you could be one of those gamers who cared about the things just mentioned above like gamerscore, but it doesn't make sense otherwise. I had only a 360 at the time and never felt the need to get a ps3 because there was nothing compelling enough for me to get one. Before it was announced that 13 would not be ps3 exclusive, I did consider purchasing a ps3, but after the announcement and because of the ridiculous price of the ps3 at launch (AND it's lack of interesting games to me) I had no more need for a ps3. Those are days long gone by, but as mentioned above, it most likely comes down to not having a ps3 available at the time.

[Ghosteses]

so basically gamescore is the big reason someone would get the 360 version over the ps3 version if they had both consoles? that is interesting =D

not sure what gamescore is. is it like trophies?

[Bolivar]

Gamerscore is like your trophy level, your accumulation of all your achievements reflected in your profile. You have to remember 360 had achievements since the beginning, whereas the PS3 only got trophies at the end of 2008. So a lot of people got invested in them early on and made their 360 the place to play multiplats. The PS3 had better graphics and audio for FFXIII, but not by much, and it's not like FF fans have any problems switching discs to begin with.