The PlayStation 3's RPG lineup is starting to look decent this year with several interesting (if obscure) exclusives making their way across the pacific. Not least of which is Sony's own White Knight Chronicles.However, as predicted, Sony doesn't actually care about White Knight Chronicles, giving it only a few brief seconds during one of their many many montages throughout the event. Sad times.
What Sony does care about is Square Enix's Final Fantasy, and they took several opportunities to remind you and I that Final Fantasy is totally on PlayStation 3.
Their first Final Fantasy name drop came with the announcement of Final Fantasy VII becoming available for download via the PlayStation Network starting today. They mentioned that they have 50 other PS1 classics that will be following it, but didn't mention what any of them are. Hopefully there will be some more RPGs?
Later during their conference, they gave us a look at a brand new, full-length, full English Final Fantasy XIII trailer, which not only gave us a better look at the game's story, but also briefly introduced a new character who we assume to be playable. I will post it soon.
However, the big Final Fantasy announcement for Sony was that the next next next FF installment, Final Fantasy XIV, will be coming to exclusively to PlayStation 3 in 2010.
Though the trailer shown was short and generally uninformative of what to expect from the game, it was revealed that the game will be an "Online" title, similar, it seems, to Final Fantasy XI.
Since Square Enix originally claimed that their next MMO would be on PC and Xbox 360, Sony's announcement of FFXIV as exclusive is suspect, especially with the "exclusively to PlayStation 3 in 2010" part, which may be indicative of a timed exclusive.
We will await further details, but it was made clear that FFXIV will be on PS3 next year. So yeah.
Unfortunately, there was no news of any other RPGs.
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