Topic: No Japanese Voices on Western FF XIII Xbox360 Version? (Read 292 times)

Xbox-Scene · « **on:** May 12, 2009, 12:07:00 PM »

No Japanese Voices on Western FF XIII Xbox360 Version?
Posted by XanTium | May 12 15:15 EST | News Category: Xbox360

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From kotaku.com:

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Hey, did you hear? In the West, FFXIII is coming to the PS3 and the Xbox 360. The PS3 has Blu-ray. The Xbox 360 does not.

So when it comes to things like adding extra voice tracks, that might be difficult for the Xbox 360 version. According to Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase, "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. 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?"

Full Story: kotaku.com

darkshadow2k8 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2009, 01:12:00 PM »

hell no we need english only it leaves room for other things

Strikerzex911 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2009, 01:16:00 PM »

Fuck japanese voices, this is America.

Rickets06 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2009, 01:24:00 PM »

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kota...360_ff13_ps.jpg

Look at what they did there. How many dl dvd's fit into one blu ray? 6?

And personally, I sometimes use Jap voices, but probably not for this game, the English VA better not suck and it better sound good like in lost oddyssey

trentdadi · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2009, 01:58:00 PM »

I think the reason a lot of people like japanese is because the voice acting is so bad. Give us VA half as good as Mass Effect and I will be plenty happy.

admiralj · « **Reply #5 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:09:00 PM »

/me smells Japanese dialog DLC in the works.

twistedsymphony · « **Reply #6 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:03:00 PM »

why not have Japanese voices as free DLC... or include a 2nd disc that allows you to install the alternative voice track.

I honestly don't see what the big deal is.

Rickets06 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:11:00 PM »

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ May 12 2009, 01:03 PM)

why not have Japanese voices as free DLC... or include a 2nd disc that allows you to install the alternative voice track.

I honestly don't see what the big deal is.

They'll want something for it, and they'll only put it out there if they think it will give them like a 500% profit or something. Wouldn't you say? I'd rather have good English VA like LO has.

pezjono1986 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:22:00 PM »

As long as the English tracks don't suck, then there is no need for Japanese.

chronno · « **Reply #9 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:00:00 PM »

It sounds like an attempt to pacify their Sony fans who feel betrayed that it's no longer exclusive. It sounds like they're trying to say "don't worry we're screwing the 360 people." Granted, I don't see it as I'm being screwed since I never knew any FF game could be played with the Japanese audio.

And I agree, sounds like a good excuse to get extra money out of the DLC.

g8crapachino · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:29:00 PM »

There are a few ways they could work this...put the English voices on the US release, the Japanese voices on the Japanese release, then don't region lock the game. Those that really want the other voices could always import it. Another option is to allow harddrive installation and just ship on multiple discs.

Personally I grew bored of the FF series back around FF VII. IMO, the later installments were more about the CGI cutscenes then the gaming. Something tells me FF XIII will be more of the same.

Reaper527 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:42:00 PM »

dvd's are cheap. i'm sure if they wanted to, they could add one more disc to the game and have plenty of room. having 3 discs didn't hurt blue dragon's playability. lost odyssey had what, 4 discs (its still on my "to do" list)? as long as they square-enix learned from their mistake on star ocean, multi disc isn't a problem.

(for those who are unaware of what i'm talking about, star ocean:tlh was a 3 disc game, and once you got to disc 3 and got to the point in the game where you could travel back to any planet you wanted to, you actually had to switch discs between disc 2 and disc 3 to go to some locations)

K1LLERHORNET · « **Reply #12 on:** May 12, 2009, 04:01:00 PM »

i'm pretty sure 99% of the NA/EU/AU population couldn't care less about the JP voice over & would never use it anyway.

QUOTE(Reaper527 @ May 12 2009, 10:42 PM)

dvd's are cheap. i'm sure if they wanted to, they could add one more disc to the game and have plenty of room. having 3 discs didn't hurt blue dragon's playability. lost odyssey had what, 4 discs (its still on my "to do" list)? as long as they square-enix learned from their mistake on star ocean, multi disc isn't a problem.

(for those who are unaware of what i'm talking about, star ocean:tlh was a 3 disc game, and once you got to disc 3 and got to the point in the game where you could travel back to any planet you wanted to, you actually had to switch discs between disc 2 and disc 3 to go to some locations)

OMG - thats the stupidest thing i've ever heard....
Hopefully they dont do something that dumb for FFXIII just to please the Sony fanboys.
If they do, i *may* have to consider getting it on the PS3 (yuk - no achievements).

This post has been edited by K1LLERHORNET: May 12 2009, 11:03 PM

carniver · « **Reply #13 on:** May 12, 2009, 04:19:00 PM »

Or put japanese track there by default and put english up on DLC, good way to make more money

Jinkz · « **Reply #14 on:** May 12, 2009, 04:39:00 PM »

An age old solution to this, 2 disks, surely?

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