Final Fantasy XIII appears to be lacking a few pixels on Xbox 360

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Pixelcounters unite! Users on NeoGAF have analyzed the holy beejesus out of the recenlty released “Final Fantasy XIII” screens, coming to the conclusion that the Xbox 360 version of the game runs at the resolution of 1024×576, meaning the PlayStation 3 displays 332316 pixels more.

I have altered the picture above the news post to reflect this new development. From now on, posts talking about the Xbox 360 version of the game will have their picture rendered in a much lower resolution, to adjust your eyes to Final Fantasy XIII’s deficiencies. Also, to save bandwidth. Two birds, one stone.

It remains to be seen if these claims are indeed true, because this is huge. I don’t know how much you know about screen resolutions, I’m an expert, but honor and shame are huge parts of it. If you screw someone over with a sub HD resolution, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the Xbox 360 owners, after hearing about this, are not going to want to purchase FFXIII, nor will they purchase any of Square’s games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Square has alienated an entire market with this move.

Square, publicly apologize and make the Xbox 360 version 720p or you can kiss your business goodbye.

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4 Comments

Geoff 20. 02. 2010 20:31 modern warfare 2 is only 600p, devs must be gettin super lazy quote »

Lori 21. 02. 2010 16:23 that’s a bit unfair, as that’s still a higher resolution than FF13 seems to be running at. also, MW2 is running at 60fps with an insane amount of detail. quote »

Geoff 21. 02. 2010 21:21 thats my point, mw2 is 600p and still looks great. as long as it doesnt look like total garbage, whats the big deal? same game in the end. quote »

Lori 21. 02. 2010 23:56 well there’s two reason’s why it is a deal — albeit not a big one: - usually, the ps3 versions of games are worse. that’s an irrefutable fact. - multiconsole owners usually like to know these things. then again, this may or may not be true, so grain of salt etc. quote »