Rob Browning wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:44:55 -0500, "Sean" <anonymous@nowhere.net>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On
>>
>>>"Sean" <anonymous@nowhere.net> wrote in message 
>>>news:Ia6dnZ79INM9FJjeRVn-sQ@midco.net...
>>>
>>>>On
>>>>
>>>>><Highlander> wrote in message news:H8ydnXyW9osRZHffRVn-qA@comcast.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>>http://ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=57264&page=3&pp=50
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Final Fantasy XII  (FF12)  for Playstation2 is not coming out until 
>>>>>>March
>>>>>>2006 in Japan, which, naturally, means we will not have an english 
>>>>>>version
>>>>>>until September 2006 at the soonest
>>>>>
>>>>>That is their way of sneaking it into the PS3 launch window for North
>>>>>America and Japan.  Pretty sneaky.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Somehow I don't think that releasing FFXII at the same time that Sony 
>>>>releases
>>>>the PS3 will work out that great.  I think the delay is simply because 
>>>>they
>>>>thought it needed more polishing before being released.
>>>
>>>Yeah that wouldn't work.  Releasing they biggest selling game at the same 
>>>time as a new system.  <sarcasm> 
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I think that you're forgetting that FFXII is for PS2.
> 
> 
> Not relevant.  There will likely be a lot of people who buy a PS3 for
> other reasons, then see FF12 on the shelf and decide to try it out
> since they've seen so much masturbation over the series for the past
> few years.  And then of course there are the people who already play
> the games, but who would normally wait until they had a good reason to
> go to the game store to buy FF12.
> 
> This could help Sony as well.  There are quite a few FF fans out there
> with old PS2s that aren't running so well any more.  And with a new FF
> coming out at about the same time as the PS3 (and, of course, the
> near-certainty of more FFs coming out for the PS3 in the future), a
> number of people will decide to get the PS3 along with their FF12
> purchase instead of buying a slimline PS2 or just sticking with their
> old one.
> 
> Rob
> ploovTeHSPaeMBLoKuR@charter.net
> 
Other people don't shop like me then.  If I'm going to blow my budget on 
a new system, then I'm getting a game for that same system.  Nothing 
more, nothing less.  As for you rich people out there, I guess it would 
kind of work.