Hope you weren’t looking forward to playing Final Fantasy XIII any time soon, Americans, for Square Enix said late last night (time zone permitting) that the game won’t be released here till at least next April. It’s like the good old days when we had to wait years and years for a localization to come out, if it ever did.
Right, so Square Enix—Squeenix, as the cool kids say—said that it won’t release the game until its next fiscal year. That begins in April, 2010. So, the absolute earliest we’d see the game here would be 15 months from now.
Remember, the game was first revealed E3 in 2006.
Oh, and remember that Square Enix said that work won’t begin on the Xbox 360 version of the game till it has completed the Japanese version.
In other words, you could probably go back and play the previous 10 (not counting FFXI, of course) games a dozen times before it ships.
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Oh well that’s just more wonderful news for PS3 fans.
whatever… they aren’t really even FF games anymore. 12 was just a pretty version of vagrant story meets the poopiest parts of 10. lucky #13 will probably play like lost odyssey: all cut-scene and no fun. What are the chances they’ll use the power of next gen to create an immense world I can get lost in? it’ll just me more fetch and teleport. [can you tell I'm bitter?]
Hey kimosabe, There’s actually 12 Final Fantasy’s, with a shat load of spin offs.
I seriously cannot wait for this game to come out! I’ve been waiting impatiently since CES ‘06. I’m a huge fan of FF games and have wasted way to much of my life playing them. I’m not really a super geek, but whenever I pick up a new FF, I feel like I’m free basing off of Methamphetamines.
This seriously blows. I haven’t heard of any legalistic reasons of why they can’t get this done, just excuses. It’s been three fucking years, come on, now it’s at the point of being pathetic.