[quote name='jer7583']this thread is a train wreck at the center of a nuclear explosion caused by a airplane crash that causes a zombie outbreak midst flash floods and riots.
Thomas: you're not doing any Sony fans a favor with your arrogance or childish ways.
Strell: You're witty, you win.
As for the remake, yeah, I would love to see this happen, but it's not going to be PS3's savior. FFVII carried the original playstation, but the circumstances are different now. At the time, FFVII was a groundbreaking RPG in it's mass market appeal, cinematic quality, and graphics. Now, it's just another in a long string of beatings Square has been giving to it's most fan adored horse.
It's also coming out on a console that costs twice as much as the original system, and twice as much as it's competition. Quite an odd reversal, considering the original playstation cost almost half as much as it's main competition at launch, the Saturn.
NOTHING, but NOTHING will reverse PS3's position unless that price reaches a reasonable ~300 level. And that will not be happening in the next two years. Regardless of quality, people have a limit to what they will spend, and Sony served as the guinea pig for discovering that price this generation. Someone should have told them about the charred corpse of the 3D0 guinea pig.[/QUOTE]
Is the Wii really the PS3s competitor... because if this game was coming out on Wii then you really wouldn't have much of a game. We've all played the Wii version of this about 10 years ago on PS1. We don't need another one. Games sell systems, so if anything is going to reverse the PS3 position, or at least turn the tide, its going to be a game like this. No one wants to play a lame Wii half assed [excuse my french] "oh this is for the casual RPG gamer now" FFVII remake. That was one of the main joys of FFVII, because it was a game that really pushed the envelope for games during its time. A game like this [assuming that its the hotshit we're expecting it to be] is totally justifiable on PS3, at the 500/600 dollar level. By the time this game comes out.. which would probably be some time in 2009, the PS3 will be at a better price range, and they'll be a bigger user base; I forgot which sony rep said this.. but it makes sense.. you can't develop games based on the present market you have to develop games for how the market will be in the future. A HD FFVII remake is a lot more attractive than a wiggle waggle RPG fest FFVII.
- I'm back on topic now... keep the train moving.