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Final Fantasy XIII will utilize 100% of PlayStation 3's power

Posted Mar 31, 2009 at 2:51AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Dengeki, Killzone, PS1, PS2, PSOne, Square Enix

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Square Enix continues to live up to the standards it set when it released Final Fantasy VII for the PSOne. According to a new interview with Final Fantasy XIII's producers, the game will utilize 100% of the PlayStation 3's power. Here's an excerpt from the interview with Dengeki PS3:

Interviewer: How much of the PS3's powers do you think the game will utilize at the end?

Kitase: I think around 50% for the demo version. For the final product (just before it's released), I think it will use around 100% of its powers. It is the same situation with FFVII and FFX where we fully utilized the powers of the PS1 and PS2.

Interviewer: Since the PS3 has Bluray, there shouldn't be too much trouble with storage?

Kitase: If you are talking about using a single or dual layer disc, there isn't really a problem with storage space. However, the PS3 also has a hard drive. Depends on which one you are talking about, but there's still some work to be done on the memory side of things.

Even Killzone 2 wasn't able to max out the PS3. I'm stoked to get my hands on that demo. Not exactly sure how the Xbox 360 version will play in this case though.

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Sounds good. I can't stand Final Fantasy but anything that uses the PS3's extra power over it's rivals is great for the console and userbase as a whole.

I don't see how FFVII uses the PS1 to it's fullest though. I always thought it was a massively ugly game with simplistic low-poly kiddy looking character models and they all merged into the lead one everytime you went somewhere. FFVIII and IX surely looked better as did a whole load of other PS1 games.

# Liars — Santhiel 2009-03-31 04:24

There is no way, maybe FF VS XIII not not FF XIII, if they mean to make da game da same in terms of quality with the 360 version, then there is no way in Hell that it will take the full power of the PS3, unless they are planning to use de 250% capacity of the 360...

# info — lee123 2009-03-31 04:37

ive been talking to some people on a forum and we've been saying using 100% of the ps3s power doesnt mean its the best looking game you will see on the ps3

it just means its a power hungry game, when you run Folding@home that uses 100% of the ps3's power

its all about coding, you can code a program to do one simple task but use all of the resources available to do it

im not saying that FF13 wont look amazing, but what i am saying is its not the best the ps3 can do, in a few years you will see when all games improve just how the games on the PS2 did

# 100% Power Usage — Diablith 2009-03-31 05:07

When they say that they're using 100% of the PS3 power, it means they've figured the system out completely and that they'll have no further problems. It's not a bad thing to use 100% of a system's power. You actually want a company to. The 360 has been there for a while and now the PS3 is there. It's a good thing! The graphics of a game is reliant on the Graphics Engine, so games will always continue to look better as time goes on for all the systems.

I'm sure the 360 version will be maxed out too. They're not porting FFXIII, they're actually restructuring and rebuilding it from the ground for the 360 so it'll take full advantage of the 360. I've got a 360 and a Wii (used to own a PS3 'til it got stolen...) but I know for sure I'm getting FFXIII for PS3... I think it would be weird to play it on 360... But I'm glad it's multiplatform, so Square can make more money and hopefully stop making crappy games and remakes!

# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2009-03-31 05:13

This news is hilarious! It should also piss off the folks over at Naughty Dog as well as a few QJ members.

HAHAHAHA!!!!!

# yea your right — Link75e 2009-03-31 05:15

Sqare enix needs new games or Kingdom Hearts. If they make kingdom hearts i am positive ps3 sales will go up. I even pre-ordered the special ed DSi kingdom hearts ed. I think i might buy it on the ps3 not because of the full power but because i bought star ocean last hope and now i cant go on in the game because it freezez my 360 so i havent beaten the game yet. The game is amazing but cant finish it sucks real bad. My ps3 needs some love so ill get this on the ps3 and tekken on my 360.

# agreed... — Miclowgunman 2009-03-31 05:43

Thats how computers work. You learn how to utilize resources better, make better looking graphics with a lower poly count, improve the efficiency of your coding. By the end of the ps3 life. There will be games that pull off way better then FFXIII with less power consumption. Just like FFXIII will work better with the system then MGS4. That is...if they don't wait to release the game until the end of the ps3 life....j/k.

# 100% — dustinfoley 2009-03-31 07:40

They arent refering to using 100% of the processing power, because like others have said there are crap tastic games/programs that use 100% cpu power.

They are talking about fully understanding the engine. The problem is developers all use their own 100% scale. I think for kill zone 2, they are only using 80% of the processing potential of the CPU, but they are maximizing all aspects of the PS3 as far as development.

# As much — Farnesworth 2009-03-31 09:47

as I like the PS3.... I hate hearing that a game will be using 100% of a consoles power. To me that means that it will be using 100% in normal situtions, then when things go nuts, it uses 120% of the power and slows to a crawl, jumps around or whatever.

Either that or its using the 100% in order to maximize processor effeciency, not because it really needs to. I can just see the white Square-Enix logo at the begining pushing the PS3 to its limit because thats what it was designed to do.

Probably not going to be the case, but i can imagine the final ultimate boss, huge as a small city, complete with 1000 live rendered cars maxing the PS3, then something blowing up and suddenly it's only showing every other frame. (yes, I'm a jaded gamer)

Meh, what am I talking about. The fact is, that it's a boast. They may get 100%, but a year from now developers will have gotten to 150% power, which today seems impossible. Luckily, there is always a developer willing to push the envelope.

# I get it, but still call BS — ptspyder 2009-03-31 10:38

I get that they are talking in terms of % of CPU power, but they are still full of it. Not long ago, when they announced the 360 version of FF13, they said it would max the 360 but they "wouldn't be doing any special programing to capitalize on the PS3's superior technology."

They are just bending words in press releases and interviews to try and convince both PS and Xbox owners that they are getting the "best" game, trying to capitalize upon fanboy fap fights that comments like this start. Its all crap.

# doesnt realy matter — whitecloud 2009-03-31 11:13

im going to buy it as asap because i

# it depends... — anhero 2009-03-31 13:03

what they mean about power. If it's graphics power the 360 can achieve more graphics power than the PS3 (remember that the Xenon cores are better at graphic rendering than SPES, the RAM on the 360 is unified, and it has Anti-Aliasing). Yet, if they mean in general (not just graphics but performance, AI allocations, ect.) then the PS3 has a higher potential (which is yet unachieved but eventually will be).

# maximum utilization — genesiscopy 2009-03-31 15:40

of cell's and RSX processing power != maximum performance it can squeeze out of ps3... mayb they are just utilizing the full two cores of the cell processor..

but still this is not utterly useless since the data obtained from running these programs can help in obtaining a better configuration in their codes for creating better games. hopefully will be used in creating ffvsxiii and kh3 and new releases of SE games...

# I bet Crysis will own FF13 XD — PT-X 2009-03-31 19:06

dont forget Crysis is coming to mates XD

# Vegeta, what does the scouter say about the PS3's power level — J2Jack 2009-03-31 21:21

IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAND

# ... — Nine_Masquerade 2009-04-01 00:14

OVER NINE THOUSAND?!

.....

............

GIRUGAMESH!!!!! !!!

# yes, I call BS too — sickofitall 2009-04-01 02:14

how would they be able to get 100% of the PS3's power on a multiplatform game, and they both look the same? That makes no sense when they are two different hardwares.

# More FF7 bs. It's not the first FF game to push the system to its limits. — kupomogli 2009-04-01 09:40

Personally. I think FF3 on the NES would have been the first to push the system to its limits(even though I dislike it over the original.) The original FF is already one of the best graphics games on the system, while the third title added animations for characters/spells/etc.

Let's also not forget FF6 on the SNES. While it was mainly 2d, the entire world was also done in mode 7 on a chocobo or airship, as well as the opening scene with the Magitek Armor, Serpent Trench, and the ending all being mode 7, and then the last part of the Magitek Factory being extremely low quality 3d.

FF7 didn't even utilize the full limitations of the hardware either. FF7 utilized polygons for the characters,

# Accidently hit submit. — kupomogli 2009-04-01 09:45

FF7 didn't even utilize the full limitations of the hardware either. FF7 utilized polygons for the characters, where with FF8 there was a much higher polygon count for each character.

Both FF8 and FF9 utilized untapped features that FF7 never did. Not that they couldn't have when FF7 was there, but just never did.

# . — Addy771 2009-04-03 03:54

360 cannot achieve more power because the PS3 has twice as much overall mathematical power than the 360 does.

# . — Addy771 2009-04-03 03:56

I could make an app to use 100% power easy.

while(1);

there you go.

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