FFXIII 360 exhibits storage limitations, PS3 not affected.

According to Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase, the Xbox 360 version of the eagerly awaited RPG may only include English voiceovers due to its limited storage capacity per disc - the PlayStation 3 release, however, is not affected by such constraints thanks to Blu-ray.

"Obviously, when we talk about XIII it's for PS3 and Xbox - with PS3 being on Blu ray there would be enough memory, but on Xbox probably not," said Kitase. "At the moment we're thinking of releasing the voice in English only. Are there many people who would like to play with Japanese voices?"

For the sake of all Final Fantasy fans lets hope that this is the only limitation, I don't want the actual game outside of languages affected just because of the Xbox 360 alone.CriousGamer

Well this makes me a happy camper because now I don't have to worry about the PS3 version being gimped.

...Since it's only being released in the U.S., who cares if it had Japanese Voice Acting or not?

...Since it's only being released in the U.S., who cares if it had Japanese Voice Acting or not?

millwrought

This once again proves that blu-ray isn't needed but it's a great luxury if games takes advantage of it.

Having both English and Japanese voice-acting is not needed but it's something that can be very fun to have and is something I wished more Japanese devs would take advantage of.

You could claim that this is unnecesarry but you can claim the same thing about most luxuries.

[QUOTE="millwrought"]

...Since it's only being released in the U.S., who cares if it had Japanese Voice Acting or not?

TheGrat1

Maybe but has FF really had a bad streak of English VA?

:( I might still get it for the 360 thoughteufelherz

[QUOTE="TheGrat1"][QUOTE="millwrought"]

...Since it's only being released in the U.S., who cares if it had Japanese Voice Acting or not?

Maybe but has FF really had a bad streak of English VA?

I think theres only a very small percentage of non japanese gamers who would like to play it in japenese voice actingjohnlennon28

LOL so storage limitations=not having the japanese voice overs which i wont use?

wait wait wait, then about about every other final fantasy released in america they didn't have the japanese language or japanese voice overs for us does that mean those games were gimepd too?
*laughs*

Games in the EU are released with German, French, Spanish, English and Italian on the disk. How will this work out with Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360?

Already a year to go and the 360 vershion loses 1 thing, i wonder whats next? :D

I can honestly say I've never been playing a game and thought to myself "You know what would make this game even more badass? If I couldn't understand what they're saying!" this isn't a big deal for 360 gamers at all.

Games in the EU are released with German, French, Spanish, English and Italian on the disk. How will this work out with Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360?

Hexagon_777

i dont think non-japanese players would really care about different voices

Games in the EU are released with German, French, Spanish, English and Italian on the disk. How will this work out with Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360?

If Japanese voice acting is the only thing omitted, it's not a big issue at all. IronBass

This make the PS3 version the definitive superior version for me. I much prefer Japanese voices than English for my JRPGs.Tykain

Me 2, (im an Anime freak:D)

Games in the EU are released with German, French, Spanish, English and Italian on the disk. How will this work out with Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360?

Hexagon_777

honestly can't rememeber a single rpg that was released here (germany, probably the same in the rest of europe) with another voice track other than english though. hell, you can consider yourself lucky if you get german etc. subtitles.

valkyria chronicles for example only has english and japanese (lucky me) audio and english subtitles...the difference between the the north american and german release (besides it's PAL) is the manual that is printed in german.

the game is so much more enjoyable with japanese audio. i really hope that they include the japanese audio track in the ps3 version. i always use the original language settings with subtitles if possible and there are probably many more out there which love to see this feature.

so FFXIII with japanese audio = big thumbs up:D

Games in the EU are released with German, French, Spanish, English and Italian on the disk. How will this work out with Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360?

I always prefer sub over dubso i'm happyfor PS3 owners.

[QUOTE="danish-death"][QUOTE="Zenkuso"] Extreme Delay Confirmed for EU/PAL Region :( I was getting it on playstation anyway but I'll have a bet many rpg fans will go the route of the playstation version with that news, when you've played enough of them you realize that the english actors are very poor overall and they very rarely suit there roles unless they are picked from outside the common voice acting community (aka the anime dubber groups).Zenkuso

don't think so, all (at least those i've played) featured only english language settings (or japanese if you were lucky).

so we are used to it ;)

Oh no! Now I can't listen to voice actors speak a language I can't understand! NOOOOOOOO!

Although I tend to go for Japanese voices, I'll check out the English voiced first. If they're any good then this isn't much of a big deal TBH.bdum_pshhh

Did Final Fantasy X, X-2 and XII had the option for japanese voices? i can't rememberbingbaocao

X and X-2 definitely didn't but i am not so sure about XII. my guess is that it didn't have japanese voices but i would have to play it to confirm this.

[QUOTE="Zenkuso"][QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]

Games in the EU are released with German, French, Spanish, English and Italian on the disk. How will this work out with Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360?

danish-death

That would be lame seeing as how the most spoken language in the EU is German. :P

[QUOTE="Zenkuso"][QUOTE="danish-death"] I'm guessing the none English people will just have to deal with an English ONLY version. What I'm wondering is this "For the sake of all Final Fantasy fans lets hope that this is the only limitation". What will happend if they have to cut down on audio or similar things that takes up alot of space?falconzss

don't think so, all (at least those i've played) featured only english language settings (or japanese if you were lucky).

so we are used to it ;)

Did Final Fantasy X, X-2 and XII had the option for japanese voices? i can't rememberbingbaocao

i honestly dont really care. i was gonna get both FFXIII and verses for PS3 regardless:).

[QUOTE="bingbaocao"]Did Final Fantasy X, X-2 and XII had the option for japanese voices? i can't rememberRockman999

definitely better than the german subtitles in FFX...

it was like the subtitles told a whole different story :shock:

...Since it's only being released in the U.S., who cares if it had Japanese Voice Acting or not?

millwrought

[QUOTE="Tykain"]This make the PS3 version the definitive superior version for me. I much prefer Japanese voices than English for my JRPGs.Generalmojo

Me 2, (im an Anime freak:D)

Except for people who don't fluintly speak english.PoppaGamer

How's the lack of Japanese voice acting on a game not being released in Japan an issue for the people who don't fluintly speak english?

I wasn't going to play FFXIIIbecause I hate JRPGs. But even if I was going to play the game, then I'd want English voices.

The bigger picture is still that the X360 gets a huge once-exclusive PS franchise

Oh, and a lot of them have been FF fans ever since Square went metro - they feel at home looking at characters like that.

Shafftehr

The main reason why I hate JRPGs

This is ridiculous. Most likely will get it for ps3 anyway but who cares. i dont speak japanese and i dont care to have the option either. most importantly more people get to play this great game and square makes more money. i dont think it makes a difference to 99% of people that were gonna buy this game.