July 14, 2008 - Square Enix's formerly PS3-only RPG epic will launch day and date on Microsoft's console in North America and Europe; 360 exclusive hitting US November 20.

At the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft presented what it thought was a major announcement from a top Japanese developer, Square Enix. Unfortunately, the "news" proved a tad anticlimactic, considering that the game in question was Final Fantasy XI, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game previously released on the PC in 2003 and the PlayStation 2 in 2004. Despite a sizeable PR push, the 360 edition of the game was lukewarmly received by critics and consumers, who barely bought 213,000 copies of it in the US.
Over the next three years, Microsoft would announce several more Square Enix games for the Xbox 360, including the exclusive Star Ocean: The Last Hope and the timed exclusive The Last Remnant. However, in many gamers' minds these projects were dwarfed in importance by the stature of two other Square Enix games: Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII Versus, both PlayStation 3 exclusives...

...until today.

This morning at its press briefing at the E3 Media & Business Summit, Microsoft stunned many in the audience by announcing that Final Fantasy XIII is now in development for the Xbox 360. Not only is the game coming to the console, but it will arrive on the same day and date as the PlayStation 3 edition of the game, with no timed exclusivity of any kind. However, when exactly that is remains a mystery, given that the graphics-intensive role-playing game still has no firm release date.

"We believe that releasing an Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII will allow us to provide the game to even more fans in the two regions of North America and Europe," Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada told a stunned audience. No mentioned was made of Japan, where the 360 is far less popular than the PS3.

Wada also used today's event to announced the release date of the 360-exclusive Last Remnant as being November 20 in North America. Square Enix's timed 360 exclusive, Infinite Undiscovery, will ship in North America on September 2, Europe and the UK on September 5, and Japan and Asia on September 11.

Source: Gamespot

Well this is certainly a shock, a geniune megaton. Honestly, this was one of the last hold outs. Never thought I'd ever see the day. :o

Are all the ps3 fanboys going insane because of this? As a PS3 owner i'm a little upset but people are going to lose there heads over this.

And isn't it weird how the stronger console always loses....

Playstation V N64 - Playstation
PS2 V Xbox - PS2
360 V PS3 - 360 (most likely now)

A quick read of the IGN comments section shows that they certainly are.

Honestly though, console wars. Pfft. :P

Interestingly enough the winning console also released first, had the lower price at a given time, and had the larger selection of games. I'd say it's a winning formula.

Well, unless you count the Wii... Last, least games...

Since the 360 gets this game too. Who is hoping this will come out on the PC also?

I could care less about this whole FFXIII going to 360...It's only one game...it's not like you gonna see no other PS3-exclusive anymore.

I think the Wii runs on a completely different formula. Even thought it's still a games console, it's got different appeal because of its gimmicky nature (not using the word gimmicky in a bad way).

Also, it's quite nice that FF XIII is going to be on 360, but I don't know if I'll buy it - I still haven't finished (or played for some time) Mass Effect. I don't really have time for those long RPGs, even though they're quite awesome...

FFVII & FFVIII came out on PC - terrible ports though, the FMVs actually looked WORSE than the PSOne! Crappy sales didn't help much either

I wish Final Fantasy would just stay on Sony grounds, its one of the main reasons I always buy a Sony (even though I've been disappointed with every FF after VIII aside from remakes)