Gamer Hell Froze Over

The Geek-O-Sphere (depending on which “side” you’re on) was either in abject misery or sadistic joy this afternoon when Microsoft ended their E3 Press Conference with the atomic bomb that Final Fantasy XIII will be coming to the Xbox 360 as well. Which is pretty much like saying Halo is going to be on a Sony console, something that, up until now, was considered nigh impossible.

I can only begin to speculate at how much money had to be exchanged at this since the Square-Enix president admitted this was an incredibly recent decision. The way it’s going to work is that the PS3 in Japan still gets FFXIII first, and then, for the English version, the PS3 version will have to wait until the Xbox 360 version is ready, so the English speaking world will get a simultaneous release of the game on both consoles.

I’m kind of torn on this. In one sense, I feel like my girlfriend has just said “I think we should have an open relationship.” On the other hand, there’s a sense of glee at how much pain this will cause the more extremist PS3 fans who’s excesses have made ashamed of my machine on more than one occasion and who’s ramblings on the internet have actually made me hate Sony on occasion because it’s responsible for creating such frightening collection of religious fanatics.

Oh well, I suppose if they’re suffering right now, it’s all for a good cause.

And in other E3 news… this song has been confirmed as in Rock Band 2.

Yup. Still love you, Harmonix, even if you are on the Microsoft payroll too.

And here’s the final official list of songs for Rock Band 2 every last one being a master track original: