Final Fantasy 7 for the PS3?

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http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/fina...vii/index.html

Well actually no. It's a technical demo for the PS3, to give some starting place of the kind of graphics we might be seeing. They have no intention of remaking FF7 for the PS3, although if they did I'd buy a copy. Hell, I'd buy 2. And seeing revamped demos for the greatest game of all time makes me salivate.

[xScott]

Holy shit, i just got pwned!

We should start a petion to Square/Enix to re-make it. For the love of god, why do they tease us?

[jboyce]

they should remake it, twist the story a little so it's not repetitive.

[Sho Nuff]

Brings back warm moemories.

[MRX]

Brings back warm moemories.

u and me both bro

[HenRoc]

Brings back warm moemories.

Dude I have it and I didnt even get past the first disk..after 30 hours of playtime and then for some odd reason my saved file corrupted.

FF7 was and is probably one of the best RPGs to come out of Square at the time..I didn't see all the hype about it then but now I do.

[93wagonEX]

the final fantasy has moved to xbox from now on.
so the next new final fantasy game will be on xbox 360 late this year/early next year.

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the final fantasy has moved to xbox from now on.
so the next new final fantasy game will be on xbox 360 late this year/early next year.

lol, I think someone might have given you bad info, do you have a source?

:square/enix has been commited to Sony for some time now:

[Sho Nuff]

the final fantasy has moved to xbox from now on.
so the next new final fantasy game will be on xbox 360 late this year/early next year.

Very impressed by the specs; even more impressed with the projects in the works which include Playstation's original launch title, Warhawk. Others are:

* Avalon - Climax
* Broken Saints - Gnosis (www.brokensaints.com)
* Clown Combat - Eagle Claw
* Condemned - Sega
* Devil May Cry - Project by Capcom
* Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Bethesda
* Gran Turismo 5 - Polyphony Digital
* Grand Theft Auto (PS3 Project) - Rockstar North
* Heavenly Sword - Just Add Monsters
* Need for Speed (New Generation Consoles Project) - Electronic Arts
* S.T.A.L.K.E.R - THQ
* The Getaway - Team Bondi
* Spyro - Insomniac Games
* Star Wars Galaxies - Lucas Arts (Project/Plan)
* Tony Hawk's Underground 3 - Activision
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Sony
* Final Fantasy XIII - Final Fantasy Project
* Killzone 2 - Guerilla Games
* Winning Eleven - Confirmed WE Series by Konami

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[Nycxeracer]

Aside from FFVII which would even sway me to get a ps3, I'm a die hard xbox fan. I know both systems are suppose to be kick ass, but truth be told, will the 360 beat out ps3 in graphics and speed much like xbox has done to ps2?

PS2 may have sold almost 20% more units than XBOX, this new war between systems appears will finally separate the men from the boys, so to speak. I am curious of a side by side comparison of the two systems processing units, and also which gameplay looks more realistic. I have only seen the technical demos for ps3, and yah they look like typical ps2 stuff. However, if those images and video are ACTUAL gameplay, the 360 is going to get it's ass beat, mark my words. However, I am sure Bill Gates, billionare-philanthropist will certainly pack a nasty punch, especially with halo 3 launching @ ps3's launch (man he's a dick, lol). just my .02.

[deevergote]

The N64 was actually a more powerful machine than the Playstation, but the N64 was a total flop in comparison.

Anyway, to bring Nintendo into the picture... Square/Enix has FINALLY made their peace with Nintendo, and they're releasing games on for them as well. I haven't heard any Microsoft talk until now, but I can definitely see some new S/E games being made for whatever Nintendo and Sony have to offer us in the future.


BTW, my roommate left early this morning to go to LA. He'll be attending E3 He's all excited about seeing the PS3 and meeting Richard Dean Anderson

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Xbox Live, 2 types:

Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline

- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile * #
- Motto for gamer profile * #
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
- Offline achievments * #
- Online achievements *
- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *
- Cumulative gamer score * #
- Location/language profile * #
- Reputation *
- Enahnced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list *
- Free and premium download game content *
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
- Downloadable demos/trailers *
- Microtransactions *
- Custom playlist in every game * #
- Play music from portable devices * #
- View images from digital camera * #
- Strem media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *

Now for the hardware specs a.k.a. numbers:

Quote:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

Wireless controllers, connection to the PSP and a powerful new graphics processor technology: Take a look at the PlayStation 3's performance specifications as provided by Sony.

CPU: Cell Processor
• PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
• 1 VMX vector unit per core
• 512KB L2 cache
• 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
• 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
• 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
• 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
• total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
• RSX @550MHz
• 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
• Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
• Multi-way programmable parallel pipelines

Sound
• Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

Memory
• 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
• 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth • Main RAM: 25.6GB/s
• VRAM: 22.4GB/s
• RSX: 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s(read)
• SB: 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance • 2 TFLOPS

Storage • HDD: Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O • USB: Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
• Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
• SD: standard/mini x 1
• CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1

Communication • Ethernet: (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
• Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller • Bluetoothup to 7)
• USB2.0: (wired)
• Wi-Fi: (PSP)
• Network: (over IP)

AV Output • Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
• HDMI: HDMI out x 2
• Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
• Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc media • CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM
• CD-DA: CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW
• SACDL: SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD
• DualDisc: DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
• DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PLAYSTATION 3 DVD-ROM,
DVD-Video (DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW), Blu-ray Disc (PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE)

Word from the geek is that the PS3’s CPU is about three times faster than the Xbox 360’s CPU. While this seems like a clear cut victory for Sony, it does little to end the constant debate about which system will be able to provide better games. The problem with Sony’s super-fast CPU is that not all of its power may actually be usable in games. Bottom line: There could be a lot of extraneous horsepower under the PS3’s hood that’s mainly for show, not actual gaming.

Ok, me copying and pasting is done for now. Anyhow they seem pretty similiar to me, the microsoft processor has 3 cores, I don't know about the PS3, but of course comparing the systems like that is just fodder for the fools. Whats important is how fun the games are. So I'll try not to compare until we are all playing games on them...

[Nycxeracer]

Great job on getting the specs, for the most part I can see that these two consoles are neck and neck. I really do think it's going to come down to games being offered to utilize the potential of the gpu's. However, sony does usually come short graphics wise to xbox IMO. However, I wouldn't be surprised it this underdog revolution, by nintendo does some damage. It's supposedly going to be 3X bigger than a dvd case. Also, the gameboy micro is coming out this year, hot graphics and will kick psp's ass. It's the size of a deck of cards. I need to get some overtime in for this shit.

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I just saw the design for the nintendo earlier tonight, and I gotta say it's the best looking of all of them. I really cheer for the nintendo, I just don't want them to be pushed out of the video game console business. Sega fell on their face, but I didn't love the genesis that much. Can you imagine the future of the video game business without nintendo :sad:

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07...s_6130109.html

I would hate to get hopes up if it doesn't happen, but this appeared before me this morning.

BTW, the release of FF7:AC on dvd is close at hand (for those following it)