Are you one of those tiresome people who responds to every gaming forum thread with: "*yawn* I'll wait for the PC port!" Well, looks like you'll need to uncan a new anti-console canard when the PS3 hits, because PC ports on PS3 titles look bleak.

Square Enix producer Hiromichi Tanaka on porting PS3 games:

The Xbox 360 operating system shares enough similarities with Windows, he said, so that porting the Windows version of FFXI to the 360 was a fairly quick task. A PS3 version of FFXI, on the other hand, would require redeveloping the game almost from scratch, a process that Tanaka estimated would take two or three years.

We're sure keeping PS3 exclusives exclusive is important to Sony, a bulletpoint on their list of justifications for a convoluted and impenetrable development platform. Still, bad news for gamers who don't want to spend 600 bucks on a cybertronic waffle iron Blu-Ray player.

Tanaka also mentions that Square Enix is working on a PS3 and Windows Vista cross platform MMORPG, if you still think they can handle that sort of thing after the execrable Final Fantasy XI. Florian Eckhardt

Report: Square Enix working on PS3, Vista MMORPG [Yahoo! Games]

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