Right now both versions look like they are being ported from PC. The biggest difference will probably be multiple discs and if not multiple discs 360 will probably have compressed audio making the quality slightly worse for those who notice.Tiefster

Why would you think they're being ported from the PC? There's not even a PC version confirmed, andthe PS3 was the first Crystal Tools platform...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6195345.html

In the video, director Motomu Toriyama didn't beat around the bush when Nomura asked him questions about the 360 FFXIII. Starting off, he reconfirmed that, "We haven't changed the direction of the development. We're making the PS3 version first, and then porting to the 360 later." That means that since the game will be released simultaneously on both platforms in North America and Europe, the PS3 release will be held back in those territories until the 360 version is complete.

Pripyat

Square Enix isn't saying it will be held back; the author of the article is. See where the quote ends?

Its 34 gigs, which is ATMOST 4 DVD's.

HOWEVER.

The game is full of uncompressed Audio. Audio can be compressed nearly 100:1 ratio at 99.9% the quality. The game could very easily fit on a single DVD.

Cali3350

First of all, I don't believe the audio is uncompressed.

Secondly, your estimates of compressability are way off base. compressing a CD by standard MP3 codecs is about 10:1, and it a lot less than 99.9% of the quality. There aer better codecs out there, but none would give you 100:1 compression without taking you down to voice/AM quality.

This is still speculation. The link referenced a Gamespot article. Here is what this article says:

In the video, director Motomu Toriyama didn't beat around the bush when Nomura asked him questions about the 360 FFXIII. Starting off, he reconfirmed that, "We haven't changed the direction of the development. We're making the PS3 version first, and then porting to the 360 later." That means that since the game will be released simultaneously on both platforms in North America and Europe, the PS3 release will be held back in those territories until the 360 version is complete.

Furthermore, Toriyama also revealed that, as of July 29, his team hasn't yet received the tools needed to begin work on the Xbox 360 version of FFXIII. "I'm telling them to not think about the Xbox 360 right now," he said. "We can think about it after the development kits arrive."

The designer also reassured PS3 owners that the game's quality would not suffer due to the 360 port. "We aren't going to change any specifications [of FFXIII] because of the multi-platform announcement," he declared. "Right now, we're fully concentrating on the PS3 version."

The statement that the PS3 version will be held up seems based on the line at E3 Microsoft talk that they will released simultaneously. It comes from the article author, not Square. What Toriyama says seems to directly contradict that. Why would Square sit on their biggest seller in years for no reason other than a simultaneous release? In terms of cash flow, that is a horrible busness decision.

I imagine that we will see some sort of redaction of the simultaneous release statement sometime soon.

[QUOTE="Dasacant"][QUOTE="Lonelynight"]Wasn't America the first nation on earth to use Democracy?Frattracide

???

Which is why Athens is descrbed as the "Birthplace of Democracy..."

Put away the games and pick up a book.

What about the centuries of oppression?

What's so great about English?

Um...

He wasn't drafted into the army. He signed up.

There are tons of electronics that use tantalum capacitors. Singling out the PS2 is silly thing for the article to do.

Coltan

Tantalum Capacitor