With Final Fantasy XIII finally releasing in North America, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has touched upon the always controversial decision to port the game to Xbox 360. According to Wada, it wasn't a hard decision to make. His team wanted to do it, and the install base was such that it was essentially a no-brainer.

"The Xbox team has been asking us to have a [Final Fantasy] game developed on our platform," explains Wada. "Also, the Xbox 360 console is available in many homes in US and European markets so that was not really a hard decision to make."

Many zealots accused Square Enix of treachery after the fateful 2008 E3 conference when XIII was revealed to be multiplatform, and the subject has been a sore point between opposing gamers ever since. Comparison videos, technical specs, the number of discs, and all sorts of other squabbles have been had over the past months. Now that the games are out, we can all just sit back and be glad that we're actually playing the thing, right?

Square Enix CEO Explains How Final Fantasy XIII Got On The Xbox 360 [Siliconera]