Final Fantasy XIII on Wii?

[noiseredux]

I dont really care, because I don't own any current gen consoles. Nor have I enjoyed any of the 3D Final Fantasy games. However, I'm just curious: Why wasn't Final Fantasy XIII released for Wii? Considering Wii got Crystal Chronicles titles, and the NDS has Final Fantasy games, it seems obvious to me that Square and Ninty are buddy-buddy again. So what happened?

[Niode]

Because Nintendo wouldn't pay SE for a port. However, judging on the state of the 360 version, which is running arguably more powerful hardware than the PS3, looks like shit compared to the PS3 version. I dread to think what a Wii version would look like.

[AppleQueso]

Because porting to a console with significantly inferior hardware would require essentially rebuilding the game from the ground up, something which would cost a lot of time and money, which I'm sure square would rather spend somewhere else.

[enderfall]

I wouldn't say they are "buddy-buddy" again, rather Square recognizes that there is enough of an install base on the Wii to make money from it. FFXIII was probably never thought of being brought to the Wii due to the graphical limitations, and not from the obvious sense of HD vs. std def. Rather Square wants to have their flagship franchise known for pushing the graphical boundaries of current gen, as they have with previous versions.

I think the better question to ask would be why there is nothing in development like the FFXII Revanant Wings on the DS for the Wii as a co-promotion of the franchise?

[noiseredux]

Because porting to a console with significantly inferior hardware would require essentially rebuilding the game from the ground up, something which would cost a lot of time and money, which I'm sure square would rather spend somewhere else.

really? Isn't square sort of well-known for milking-- I mean making lots of ports of their games over and over again?

[Niode]

Because porting to a console with significantly inferior hardware would require essentially rebuilding the game from the ground up, something which would cost a lot of time and money, which I'm sure square would rather spend somewhere else.

really? Isn't square sort of well-known for milking-- I mean making lots of ports of their games over and over again?

Yeah, but porting XIII to vastly inferior hardware? No thanks. That would be like trying to play FFVII on NES (which has happened, there's a bootleg out there). Yeah it's kinda cool, but it's nowhere near the same experience.

[AppleQueso]

Because porting to a console with significantly inferior hardware would require essentially rebuilding the game from the ground up, something which would cost a lot of time and money, which I'm sure square would rather spend somewhere else.

really? Isn't square sort of well-known for milking-- I mean making lots of ports of their games over and over again?

Lots of ports? They ported the SNES games a couple of times, and the psx ones are on PSN... that's about it.

Milking the franchise though? Most certainly.

[jfrost]

Dragon Quest X is going to be on the Wii though.

[AppleQueso]

Dragon Quest X is going to be on the Wii though.

That's enix's old baggage, square doesn't care where it goes.

[noiseredux]

Yeah, but porting XIII to vastly inferior hardware? No thanks. That would be like trying to play FFVII on NES (which has happened, there's a bootleg out there). Yeah it's kinda cool, but it's nowhere near the same experience.

I love the NES version of VII. Haha. But my opinion doesn't really count since VII is where I started to not like the series anyway.