Contrary toour satirical articlein which I saidFinal Fantasy XIIIwould be blatantly better on the Xbox 360, Square Enix has revealed that Blu-ray will lead to a superiorPS3version after all. The Xbox 360 version isgoing to featurecompressed video and audio, presumably in an attempt to get as much content as it can on one DVD.
Despite the compression, the Xbox 360 version willstillship on multiple discs. Meanwhile,Final Fantasy XIIIon PS3 will be uncompressed and resplendent on a single dual-layered Blu-ray disc. To give you a sense of how far ahead Blu-ray discs are, a dual-layered BD can hold 50GBs of data and a dual-layered DVD holds 9GB.
While the compressed nature of the 360 version will have very little effect on normal people, the fanboys are going to have a field day. This is a de facto victory for the Sony obsessives, even though their human eyes and ears won’t be able to detect a real difference in quality between the two. Still, congraulations to PS3 owners, probably!
