Square Enix President and all around peaceful guy Yoichi Wada recently stated that his company remains neutral in the ever flame-inducing console war.

Fans (or fanboys) of the 360 and PS3 were at each other’s throats yet again recently when supposed long-time PlayStation backer Square Enix announced that their flagship title Final Fantasy XIII would be released for the 360 — in North America, at least.

“We’re now in the age of the multi-platform, but depending on age and territory, users have different tastes. Therefore it’s very difficult to just deal with one company or one hardware platform – in order to offer our product to the vast majority of gamers we need to deal with multiple companies and platforms.n North America Microsoft is doing very well with its hardware, and for that reason it’s a very important partner for us.”

He also states, “We always consider the territory and hardware for titles, and I just want to make sure that we’re neutral about dealing with companies.” This should come as no surprise to anyone, as Square Enix titles have popped up on nearly every system at some point since the glory days of the NES.  So this isn’t a knife in the back to Sony at all — perhaps a bullet in the brain to Kaz Hirai considering the game is still a PS3 exclusive in Japan.

Speaking of Nintendo, when asked about the Wii, Wada said in typical lawyer-over-the-shoulder speak that they didn’t have any plans, but the system was kick-ass and that they’re “ready to offer various types of content to various types of users.”  Basically, if it can make money, they’d be willing to make a game for it.

You can read the full interview over at gameindustry.biz

Tags: FF, FFXIII, Final-Fantasy, Square, Square-Enix, Squenix, Yoichi Wada

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1 Comment » ReVeLaTeD on September 11, 2008 3:24 pm “This should come as no surprise to anyone, as Square Enix titles have popped up on nearly every system at some point since the glory days of the NES.” That’s not true, at least not to my knowledge. I don’t recall seeing a Square Enix game on- Sega Genesis Sega CD Sega 32X Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast Sega Game Gear 3DO Atari Jaguar Nintendo 64 There’s a lot Squaresoft, Enix, or Square Enix has not delved into. So their refusal to support a system is rather silly. As is their claim that Wii is “ideal” – for remakes, sure. For new games, no. My Life as A King is an exception, but even that game had limits. Seems to me though that they’re heavily supporting Nintendo’s products moreso than the others. It’s going to hurt them in the end. At least now we know why Kingdom Hearts 2 was not released on PS3. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.